DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2015.v03i02.037

Pages: 588-600

Turkish Peasants, though impossible to stereotype individually since they are so different from one another; nevertheless do exhibit certain more or less common traits and behavior patterns. This fact follows from sharing a common life directly under the influence of the nature and climatic conditions in a small-sized community and is, moreover, a cumulative result of historical roots and a certain life-style, over centuries.