ÇAĞDAŞ SINIF SOSYOLOJİSİNDE PSİKOSOSYAL ÇÖZÜMLEME
PSYCHOSOCIAL ANALYSIS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY OF CLASS

Summary/Abstract: The Turkish critical class studies have sought to understand class identity and consciousness by merely focusing on structure or agency. Although evidences of those studies focusing on workplace and labour process are important in explaining class consciousness and identity, they have simply ignored psycho-social processes in the debates of class formation. As a preliminary conceptual work, this paper suggests a psychoanalytically-inflected psychosocial approach, in understanding and explaining the processes of habitus formation and crises of differing social classes. Certain cultural practices required by a class position ensue from the acquisition of dispositions that make possible very those practices and that may function to be a capital as to the field in which to be performed. The acquisition of disposition is both a psychic and social process. Without clinical psychoanalytical concepts such as affective investment, identification, projection, defence mechanism, the formation of dispositions belonging to definite classes cannot be well understood: The analysis of class would be inadequate. The British psychosocial class literature on the formation/crisis of class habitus tends to be quite seminal for the Turkish social class studies.

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