Bilgir, Merve Turkan2020-03-262020-03-2620151300-49212458-908Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/32567Social action is an activity to internalize beliefs, values and norms on the purpose of the individual in the society. Social action institutionalizes by means of values, norms and knowledge, which are compromised and practiced by the society. The process of internationalization of every kind of social parameter is named 'socialization'. Modernity has an ability to reconstruct the social values and norms in line with economic and political activity. That is why, the critique of modernity is one of the main issues in sociology. By considering social psychological approach, Richard Sennett develops this criticism in terms of the values produced by social institutions and the design of the principles that shape human relations. Economy and politics as social institutions, which are more convenient to social transformation have caused declined interaction by means of ways that they construct the social order. The weakness of the interaction means the decline of socialization and increase of individualism. This study focused on how the modernity transformates the subject as an actor, and also social institutions and sociability in Sennett's works.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSocializationsocial institutionspublic manmodernityRichard SennettArticle34267282#YOKWOS:000440376900008N/A