| 7. The idea of two separate urban economies is nonsense, at least in Turkey. 8. Attempts to make this point in Turkey. even privately. normally arouse combative resentment. One 'objective', if foolish, public attempt cost me, in my view of reality, a year of research time. People see organisation, not as something which needs slow cultural learning, but as a natural national virtue. Even to raise it for discussion is insulting. But human societies do vary sharply in the style and effectiveness of their organisational culture. In 1923, notwithstanding the renowned Ottoman efficiency in earlier times, the Republic of Turkey began to modernise' with 80% peasants and 90% illiteracy; it did not have an easy road to modern efficiency 9. It is difficult not to slip into writing about villagers as inferior. even as foolish, because they lack specific kinds of experience and information. Emphatically, they are not. But I fear those may be examples in my own writings; and certainly elsewhere in this book. 10. Have I got it wrong? If not, how does this affect public and private sector efficiency? 11. In a paper about our research delivered to the M.E.S.A. Conference, October,1992, Incirlioglu gives specific examples of the way reality is constructed, both by herself and me, and by the villagers. 12. Gellner,1983. |