Çokkültürlü toplumsal yapilarda değişen aidiyet algilari: yeni toplumlar, yeni aidiyetler
Changing Understanding of the Sense of Belongingness in Multicultural Social Structures: New Societies, New Sense of Belongings

Summary/Abstract: Throughout human history, social actors have built a sense of belonging to society or communities in different ways in every period. However, the building of a sense of belongingness processes are heavily influenced by social changes, and the structure of a sense of belongingness has differed depending on the paradigms of each period. The Understandings of belongingness, which are generally built on a single factor depending on the structural characteristics of the mainstream society in the modern era, is increased by mobilisation and development of mass communication technologies in contemporary multicultural societies. The understanding of a sense of belongingness has been changed and diversified in multicultural societies, and individuals build a different sense of belongings in the same mainstream society depending on the socialisation process. Those belongings are considered to be the hybrid sense of belongingness. In this study, it is aimed to analyse the changing understanding of ‘us’ and ‘them ‘as a result of differentiation of belongingness of social actors in contemporary multicultural society structures. It is discussed how the social actors change the understanding of ‘us’ and ‘them’ within the mainstream social structure through the hybrid belongings that arise in the multicultural societies as a result of the change in the understanding processes of belongingness of individuals. As a result of differentiating socialisation and mobilisation processes, social actors have built a new understanding of belongingness and have a different understanding of ‘us’ and ‘them by being included in different communities within the same mainstream societies.

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