EKONOMİK VE TOPLUMSAL DOKU OLARAK ORTA SINIF

The main issue of the study is that the middle class is an important driving force in economic and sociological change.First of all, the concept of middle class, the analysis of the middle-class segments, and the reasons for the ability to make economic-social transformation or not are examined. Especially in the middle class development, OECD data has been taken into consideration, and in the light of its data, it has been emphasized in which countries the middle class has developed and in which countries it tends to shrink and why the middle classes are at the forefront. Before this, however, the historical development of the middle class was discussed and the class formations in the commercial cities of Ancient Rome were examined.It has been tried to find answers to how the industrial revolution-bourgeois concept and capitalist production system use dominant class relations and rationalism-utilitarianism. Again, many thinkers' studies and differences about the middle class were evaluated. Different views about the middle class were analyzed and it was emphasized that the energy of the middle class could be transformed economically and politically. However, it was pointed out that the weakening of the middle class could also lose the economic and political dynamism of the countries. In this context, it was pointed out that in many countries, political leaders developed policies in this direction by understanding the importance of middle class. Particularly in the US, the middle class's power to realize the de American Dream”has been observed but it has recently been pointed out how to get away from it. Especially in 2016, the economic reasons of the management change in the USA were evaluated and the protectionist policies were analyzed.