To browse Academia. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. Fatih Ozbay. Beggar Classes. Sociology of Literature ABSTRACT This study investigates beggary and begging as an activity, which have been despised and insulted by public most of the time, within the context of sociology of literature, fictional texts, essays and memoirs that constitute an important part of Turkish literature.
Beggary is an engagement that falls short of gaining acceptance by public almost in every society. Having a social reality, this engagement has inevitably found its place in literature. Thus, begging as an activity displays a quality that is worth examining in terms of sociology of literature.
Literary texts of Turkish literature that make up the center line of the subject ma tter h ave been examined and evaluated in terms of sociology of literature. Al- ed class of society. Then how beggars and the meaning, much beyond this definition. Lit- Literature, how did the writers make use of this erary texts on beggary have been presented in term and how did they give place to this class chronological order.
After explaining how and which is assumedly discriminated? Beggars, just to what extend the beggary was dealt in literary like the murderers, thieves, idlers and vagabonds, texts, how beggary emerged in social life was have been discriminated against from time to time questioned. As literature has close correlation and they have formed a social class that is gen- with social issues, literary texts are unique works erally ignored even though they are in the very to make sociological evaluations on social prob- center of society.
The main reason why beggary lems and society itself. Literature, in first place, is a consciously or unconsciously- reflects social mirror which -voluntarily or involuntarily- re- structure and that can be used by sociology.
