Citizen, Citizenship and Awareness of Citizenship

It is observed that human beings are evaluated in terms of citizens and citizenship together with their "rights" and "responsibilities" during the process from the formation inherited from the ancient Greek to its modern version. This book clearly determine all problem areas related to citizenship in current political and social theories.

This book discusses the political, social and cultural change of Western civilization since ancient Greek in the adventure of civic thought in political theory. The aim of this book is to contribute to the discussion of citizenship through "citizenship awareness", because the phenomenon of citizenship, which is sometimes included in other political and social theories in the Western literature, is an even less studied subject in the "citizenship awareness" dimension. This book, while giving the opportunity to examine the views of academicians and intellectuals living in the modern and post-modern period on citizenship through a single text, provides the views of these individuals within the framework of "citizenship awareness" to those who are interested in the subject with different comments and evaluations.

Autorentext

Fikret Çelik got his bachelor s degree from Gazi University; his master s degree from K r kkale University, and his doctorate from Sakarya University. He is currently working as an associate professor at Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration. The Author, works in the fields of political thoughts and history of political thoughts.

Inhalt

-Citizen and Citizenship as A Theoretical and Historical Case

-Citizen as an Aware Entity in the Modern Period

-Today's Citizen as a "Aware" Entity Defined Through "Interests" And "Common Equalities"