Abstract
This text focuses on a comparison of the social roles of technologies on the basis of similarities and differences between High-Rise, the novel written by James Graham Ballard and the observations based on the field research that was conducted in a residence in Oran, Ankara between 2017-2018. This study deals with the various relationships and interpretations attributed to technologies by those, who are living in buildings that were equipped with various technological tools. What makes a fictional novel meaningful in the context of this study are that the differences in the way of accessing to the technological tools and the class positioning based on those differences that is found in the novel is also observed among the occupiers in the residence where the field research was completed. Within this scope, the social roles of technologies and concepts that refer to each other such as positioning of social classes, status, prestige, power and potency will be parallelly opened up in a disscussion between a fictional work and a field study. This study aims to show that technologies play a functional role in the operation of the class positioning. Additionally it is intended to demonstrate that the technologies, which can be an indicator of the individual's status and economic power, in turn, can be the tools that help residensts to gain authority and privilege among others.