Socio-cultural impact of cars upon social life: A case study of Elazığ

ABSTRACT Master Thesis SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACT OF CARS UPON SOCIAL LIFE: tA CASE STUDY OF ELAZI? V; Mehmet Karaca Fırat University Institute of Social Sciences Department of Sociology 2000, Page: XI+222 This dissertation bases on serutunisation of socio-cultural impact of cars upon social life in Elazığ case. The study revolved around a field study and the hypothesis of cars have positive and negative impacts on social lite at two levels namely: individual and society. This research is an original study due to insufficient number of studies in this field. The data for this research emanated from questionnaire, interviews and observations. A sample of 150 car-owners was drawn in Elazığ. The responses of informants are examined through serutunisation of variables such as age, gender, occupation, economic status, education level, driving experience, social life, physical environment. The findings revealed that cars have many advantages along side with then- disadvantages but cars have unavoidable place in our social life. KEY WORDS: Autoinobilized society, Functions of automobile on social life, Automobile based transportation, Alternative transportations, Automobilized society problems. 3? if