Sabri F. Ulgener: The Discovery of Social Reality in Literary and His Intellectual Idendity

Sabri F. Ülgener, known as a legist, economic historian and soci-ologist in Turkish scientific community, said not to be the place he deserves as a thinker and intellectual in the realm of Turkish scientific life as a whole. Ülgener is an important social scientist, who has a sui generis personality, social events as observed from different angles and analysis procedure and who limited perspec-tive of the dominant social science understanding of his era, he has been tried to present important innovations in the field of human sciences methodology. While analyzing economic and so-cial events, he has considered social habits and value judgments of society instead of compiling factual information and raw data. This distinctive feature of him, it has led to reflect on him “moral codes”, “world of mentality” and the relationship between mind and economics. Although he doing pioneering works on these is-sues in the Turkish social sciences, it can be said that his intel-lectual and academic initiatives remain lacking in a sense of not adequately assessed and be told by the new generations. This ar-ticle aims to remind its original character Sabri Ülgener specified.