Morphological characteristics of human body are known to alter between different populations. Genetic factors are without doubt not the only reason of these variations. Environmental factors, nutritional habitudes, physical activity, and the socioeconomic status of the individual could cause differences in human body structure besides sex and age. In most of the anthropological studies body structure has been determined by body mass index or somatotype components.  Studies on the proportional values of human body are limited. The main aim of the present study is to evaluate the influence of socioeconomic and cultural status on the somatotype in the young adult Turkish population. The study was hold on 100 adult male subjects with a mean age of 19.54 ± 2.44, living in Ankara at the time of the study, 19 anthropometric measurements were taken from all the individuals, and depending on these measurements body mass index and somatotype values were calculated for each subject. Monthly income of the family and the education level of the parents had been taken into consideration in order to determine the socioeconomic and cultural status. The results of the study indicate that the parental education level is more impressive on the body structure when compared with the economic status of the family. Differences between the groups were marked in lower limb measurements, skin fold thicknesses and somatotype values of the subjects, especially in endomorphy component.