African Journal of Political Science

ISSN 1027-0353

African Journal of Political Science ISSN 3461-2165 Vol. 11 (1), pp. 001-006, January, 2017. © International Scholars Journals

Review

Basic concepts with Erol Gungor: Nationalism, culture-civilization, cultural shift and intellectual

Ensar Yilmaz

Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Bartın University, Turkey. E-mail: [email protected].

Accepted 09 December, 2016

Abstract

Erol Gungor is one of the important persons in Turkish Sociology. It is well known that, in spite of having a short life time, he had a great influence on sociologists after his time. He reconsidered argu-mentive concepts in the Turkish sociology which began with Ziya Gokalp, and eliminated confusions and difficulties over thetehe concepts and made them much more clear and distinct.

Key words: Nationalism, culture civilization, change of culture, intellectual, Erol Gungor.