A Sociological Symbol Through the Perspective of Story Heroes: The Tractor in the Marsal Katiri Story

Abstract

The tractor was invented as a result of technological developments and has been the pioneer of many innovations and changes in the field of agriculture. This technological vehicle, enabling transformations leading development and production in the context of economy, has had an impact in many areas in sociological terms and has been the subject of many studies.

After Marshall Aids, Turkey met the tractor in the 1950s and observed its effects in the short and long term. In this study, the tractor which is the theme in Fahri Erdinc's Marsal Katiri (eng. Marshall Mule) story reflecting the characteristics of social realism, was examined in terms of social visibility from the story heroes' point of view and this was made using the text-content analysis method. The social realism movement was mentioned with the Marsal Katiri story as an example. After the effects of tractor on the change concept were mentioned, heroes' points of view about it were transferred from a sociological perspective. The characteristics of village society closed to change have been observed in the story. In this context, in addition to the village studies conducted in different social sciences, the same characteristic was found in the Marsal Katiri story. The negative results the tractor revealed in the social layer dealing with agriculture constituted the key finding of the study showing that further social studies are needed.