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Oğuzhan Göktolga & Hasan Batar
The Participation of The Young
People in Social, Cultural and
Political Life: Malatya City Council
Youth Assembly Sample
Copyright © 2017
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Youth and Sports
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Journal of Youth Researches • November 2017 • 5(13) • 52-58
ISSN 2147-8473
Received
| 01 October 2017
Accepted
| 10 October 2017
E X T E N D E D A B S T R A C T
A N A LY S I S / R E S E A R C H
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Assoc. Prof., İnönü University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Relations,
** Communication Specialist, Assistant Secretary General of Malatya City Council,
Hasan Batar**
Oğuzhan Göktolga*
1. Introduction
Societies tend to maintain themselves in order to continue their existence. Society, in
its biological sense, carries out its function of producing itself by having children over
the family. Thus, the emergence of new generation takes place through a shift between
the new generation and the old one. The transfer of the culture of a society to its next
generations is held via the process of socialization process. The transfer of the culture
from one generation to the other provides the mobility in societies’ life cycles since it
makes a storage of culture, traditions and experiences of community life (Sayın, 1990:
151). Societies have put young people in the center as the locomotive of this movement;
and by valuation of the youth societies the youth have been assumed as a key element at
transposing of the political, social and cultural capital.
So, while the young reveals their goals for his own future, the society sees the young as
a guarantee of the later generations. In this context, it should not be ignored in terms of
