Identifying and Prioritizing the Elements of Cultural Identity in the Creation and Stability of the Identity of the Turkish Ethnicity

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1 Ph.D Candidate in Cultural Sociology Major, Faculty of Literature, Humanity and Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University of Tehran Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

2 Invited Associate Professor of Islamic Azad University of Tehran Science and Research Branch and Associate Professor of Anthropology department in Tehran University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

3 Professor of Humanity and Social Sciences of Tehran and Islamic Azad university of Tehran, Science and Research Branch, Sociology Group, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this article is to identify and prioritize the elements of contextual-cultural identity in the creation and stability of the identity of the Turkish ethnicity.Methods: The present research uses a mixed-methods (qualitative-quantitative) approach. In the qualitative phase, 22 Azeri experts living in Tehran City and other Turkish-speaking province centers in 2020 selected through snowball-sampling method to reach theoretical saturation were interviewed. In the quantitative phase, 384 residents of the centers of the Azeri provinces were selected through stratified random sampling method using Cochran's formula. Research instruments in qualitative part were checklist and semi-structured questionnaire. The instrument of the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire extracted from the identified indicators of contextual-cultural identity in the creation and stability of the Turkish ethnic group. To validate the content of the interviews, two consecutive stages of surveys with experts were used. Content validity and structural validity were used to assess the validity and Cronbach's alpha was used to assess the reliability of the researcher-made questionnaire.Results: The findings of the qualitative section revealed that based on the “thematic analysis” obtained from the interviews with experts, from 144 contents, 74 categorized codes, 12 sub-themes and finally four main themes were recognized, inclusding:1. Geography, 2. Language, 3. Individual Attitude, and 4. Personality Characteristics; their indexes were recognized as contextual-cultural identity elements in the creation and stability of Turkish ethnicity. Moreover, the results of the quantitative section, according to the exploratory factor analysis, showed five factors affecting the creation and stability of the individual-contextual cultural identity element of Turkish ethnicity, including 1. Personality characteristics, 2. Language, 3. Gender differences, 4. Individual attitudes, and 5. Geography. The results of one-sample t-test proved that the contextual-cultural identity, to a large extent, affects the creation and stability of the identity of the Turkish ethnicity. In this category, geography and language had the most important and gender differences had the least important role.Conclusion: Hence, geography and language are the most important elements of contextual-cultural identity in the creation and stability of the identity of the Turkish ethnicity.

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Sociology of Social Institutions
Volume 8, Issue 18
February 2022
Pages 89-113

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