Inan, MuratGrasso, Maria T.2019-08-162019-08-162017TURKISH STUDIES Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Pages: 10-31 DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2016.12781671468-3849eISSN: 1743-9663DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2016.1278167Accession Number: WOS:000395202200002http://acikerisim.agu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.12573/83We would like to thank to the World Values Survey Association, especially Professor Yilmaz Esmer and his team for the development of World Values Survey data set for Turkey. We would also like to thank to Professor Ayhan Kaya and Dr Cristiano Bee as well as Professor Paul Kubicek and our anonymous reviewer for the efforts they made in the publication process. This work was financially supported by Turkish Ministry of Education Study Abroad Program.This research aims to understand the extent to which generation and social class determine Turkish respondents' level of political activism. It tests both the macroeconomic socialization effect and the social class effect on political activism as hypothesized by Inglehart and Lipset, respectively. It also strives to understand whether a macropolitical period effect may also some generational implications for political activism. Beyond these examinations, it also raises a challenge to Lipset's working-class authoritarianism thesis - within the particular area of political activism - for those generations which came of age under an authoritarian politico-juridical order as well as for those which did not.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPolitical activismgeneration effectssocializationsocial classWorld Values SurveyTurkish politicsarticle10.1080/14683849.2016.1278167