In Memory of ？erif Mardin: A Small Contribution to the Secondary Literature

？erif Mardin is a thinker focused on the Turkish modernization. At the intersection of social and political sciences, Mardin has discussed this problem by analyzing many intermadiary problems. In this respect, he followed the social scientific developments both in Turkey and in the world and studied in interaction with many kind of theoretical and methodological approach. The issue of this work is philoso phical origin of Mardin’s social science approach that is primary theme of his intermadiary problems. So the aim of this study is to try to describe the methodological assumptions of his philosophy of social science following the general course of his thought