KADİR CANGIZBAY VE KÜRESELLEŞME HAKKINDAKİ YAKLAŞIMI
KADİR CANGIZBAY AND HİS APPROACH ON GLOBALİZATİON

Summary/Abstract: Globalization, which has found its meaning in Turkish as "küreselleşme", has been one of the most important topics of all areas in humanities and in national as well as international politics from the 1980's onwards. The issue has remained prolific in terms of theoretical and practical multidisciplinary implications for disciplines such as economy and culture to law and politics, due to its multi- dimensionality and interrelatedness; and the state of the world has been opened to discussion in regards to the concept of the world as a “Global Village”, a term coined by McLuhan in the 1960’s. Scientists and the political elite who have explored the matter from the perspective of their own location, prioritized issues and conjunctural dwellings have created, and are still continuing to create a wide range of literature on the matter. Kadir Cangızbay is an unusual sociologist/scholar, who speaks out his topics - we will try to show some of them below - in a very different and striking style. He discusses and analyzes the phenomenon of globalization in a unique manner, arguing -of course, as a scientist informed by other approaches- that if globalization exists, so does an enforcement to ‘make global’ and this is imposed by "imperialist / capitalist forces" in a terrorizing manner, onto societies that are deemed as the “other”. In this article, we will try to examine Cangızbay’s thoughts on ‘globalization’, as he calls it, after addressing his relationship with Gurwitch and Saint Simon, which are his two main source d'alimentation (source of alimentation), and then dwell on some of his ideas on fundamental topics in order to better understand his discussion and approach.

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