Evlenme Geleneğinin Temel Dinamikleri

In this study, subjects are main dynamics of practices that contitutes marriage traditions of Eskişehir. A im of the stııdy is presented element. actor and social value which are common in al/ practices. The other aim is diverted attention of researcher  from how practices doing to ıvhy they doing. The resoıırces of the data is a research projeci aboııt on Eskişehir marriage type and tradition co/lected by on oral history methods. in the study, discussions on practices which contitııtes marriage traditions are made by functioanlist view point. Those are determinations ıvhich achieved at the end of the stııdy: Bride ıvho formed in the binary opposition ıvoman - man and bride 's and groom 's families is a head actor of the tradition of marriage. Besides family history of bride and groom, their individııal characteristics are eflect organi::ation of traditions. Financial resoıırce which are necessary to make traditional practices, has alsa symbolic meaning. All practices are foıınd on the hasis ofa social value. and they can be determinant in the type of marriage. The study is alsa propoıınded that change and  reference is ıınchangeable part of marriage tradition, and therefore the case must be sıırveyed in depth of time.