The Place of Topics of Kemalism and Turkish Culture in Sociology Subject Between 1924 – 2009

The main aim of this research is to determine the transfer of Kemalism and Turkish Culture topics to new generations in high school sociology lessons from 1924 to 2009. A document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. As a result of the research, it was seen that the topics of Kemalism and Turkish culture were not taken into consideration in the 1924 in the sociology teaching program, and that the topics of Kemalism and Turkish culture were included in 1935 and 1957 teaching program. With regard to other findings in the research, there were no indirect or direct references to Kemalism in the 1976 program; despite that the topics of Kemalism and Turkish culture in the 1986 and 1995 programs were intensively studied in the subjects. It has been reached that the rate of the units in which Kemalism and Turkish culture topics take place decreased in 2009 program compared to Kemalism and Turkish culture units in 1995