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Criticisms on the failures of the modernity project by those who think about what is happening in the social world, from social scientists and writers to thinkers and artists increase daily. In this regard, Byung-Chul Han, a German thinker of South Korean origin is one of the most popular names in recent times and has also managed to attract attention with his criticisms of the changing dimensions of neoliberalism and capitalism prevalent in the post-industrial age. Similarly, the film Parasite, which was released in 2019 and attracted attention by winning Oscar awards in many branches, appears as a cinematic criticism of the capitalist mentality and the problems it has created. This masterpiece by the famous South Korean director Bong Joon-ho reveals the drama of a lower-class family caught in the grip of greed, resentment, and imitation, showing how capitalism deepens the division between classes with each passing day. The film reveals the situation of late modern people who are crushed under commands such as "positivity performance", "passion for being smooth and perfect", "compulsion to perform and compete", "success and self-marketing", while dreaming of having a job and a more comfortable life. Rather than analyze a film in a sociological context, the article aims to make a modest contribution to the analysis of modern society, starting from the perspective of a South Korean writer and director and his proposal for a new society in the form of the "parasitic society.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the social reactions toward risks that emerged during the period referred to as late, advanced, or high modernity by Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. These reactions transformed into new social movements with a certain organizational structure. Notably, certain movements have incorporated religious references as part of their approach. Among these movements are alternative medicine and the new age, which gained prominence in the latter part of the 20th century. In contrast to traditional movements, these contemporary movements embrace an alternative way of life, reacting against the potential risks posed by the modern way of life. This study focuses on the Aidin Salih School, an alternative medicine movement that has progressively expanded its area of influence. The most important reference sources of the members of this movement known as “Real Medicine” are Prophet’s Medicine. This concept serves as the “Angel of History” as an alternative to the modern way of life for the followers of Real Medicine. In this context, the aspiration is to reinvent the era of “Asr-ı Saadet, “ a period believed to have fully embraced the Prophet’s Medicine, as a form of retrotopia (an idealized past). The study aims to examine the motivating factors behind the “Real Medicine” movement as a representative of the alternative medicine movement and to scrutinize the social dynamics that shaped their adopted way of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Modernlik, toplumsal hayatı ve kurumları doğrudan etkileyen birtakım dinamikleri beraberinde getiren tarihsel bir süreçtir. Modernlikle birlikte birey, kendisi olmanın farkına vararak çevresini kendisi üzerinden anlamaya, yorumlamaya ve şekillendirmeye başlamıştır. Bu durum zaman içerisinde bireyselleşmeye bağlı olarak bireylerin maddi-manevi dönüşmesine yol açmıştır. Bireyin bu dönüşümü toplumsal hayatın en kılcal noktalarına kadar temas eden ve sanatın her alanında olduğu gibi edebiyatta da karşılık bulan bir sosyolojik olgudur. Mustafa Kutlu, ilk kez 2005 yılında yayımlanan Chef adlı eserinde bu dönüşümü ele almış, modern hayatın ve bireyselleşmenin toplumsal yaşam üzerindeki etkilerini eleştirel bir gözle irdelemiştir. Bu çalışmada Mustafa Kutlu’nun Chef adlı eseri bireyselleşme ve modernleşme kavramları üzerinden incelenecek, özellikle de modern aileyi oluşturan fertlerin aşırı bireyselleşmesi sonucu aile kurumunun geçirdiği yapısal dönüşüm ele alınacaktır. Bu çerçevede Chef, sadece Türk edebiyatında Mustafa Kutlu öykücülüğünün yerini görmek bakımından değil aynı zamanda toplumsal hayattaki bireysel pratikleri sosyolojik bir gözle incelemek için de dikkate değer bir metin olarak okunmalıdır.

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This article is an attempt to understand Ergüder Yoldaş's ideas and music on the axis of Dellaloğlu's modernization and modernity discussions. While the modernization embraces the transfer of the elements of the modern, it may contain the denial of the traditional. Modernity, on the other hand, can be roughly defined as calling and reinterpreting the traditional while constructing the present and the new. When we look at music from the perspective of modernity experience, we can see the process of integrating traditional music with contemporary musical accumulation. Ergüder Yoldaş who approaches Turkish Music from a modernist line by going beyond the modernization perspective is an avant-garde figure who success integrated Turkish Art Music and Turkish Folk Music with Western Classic Music and Western Rock-Pop Music. Because of his curiosity about traditional music and literature, while Yoldaş is accused of "not being modern" by the modernizing elite; "traditionalists", on the other hand, don't prefer to see his Westerner-Modernist aspect. In this sense, Yoldaş shares the same fate with Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar who is one of the essential names in Turkish Literature. Within the scope of the purpose of the article, Yoldaş's thought was discussed by looking at the interviews made with Yoldaş, his music albums, interviews with his relatives, and texts written on Yoldaş, and the literature on Turkish modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bu çalışmanın amacı, adını daha çok modernlik, sekülarizm ve İslamcılık konusunda yaptığı araştırmalarla duyuran sosyolog Nilüfer Göle’nin, siyasi bir kimlik olarak tanımladığı İslam’ın Avrupa ve Türkiye’deki yükselişini değerlendirmektir. Çalışmanın kapsamı, söz konusu yazarın, hem günümüz Türkiye’sinde sınıfsal kimliğiyle kamusallaşan ve siyasallaşan, hem de Avrupa’da modern dünyanın çağdaşı haline gelerek, gerek bireysel pratiklerde gerekse kamuya açık alanlarda tüm farklılığıyla görünürlük kazanmaya başlayan İslamcılığın bedensel ve söylemsel boyutlarına odaklanacaktır. Makalenin temel tezi, yazarın, artık İslam’ın; sadece dini bir kimlikle tanımlanamayacağı ve Ortadoğu coğrafyasıyla da sınırlı tutulamayacağı, aynı zamanda siyasal bir kimlik olarak da Batı dünyasının özellikle de dinsel ve kültürel farklılığıyla ve demokratik teamülleriyle öne çıkan Avrupa’nın daha fazla dikkate alması gerektiği yönündedir. Bu gereklilik, aynı zamanda Batı’da her geçen daha fazla ortaya çıkan ‘yabancı düşmanlığı’, ‘ırkçılık’ ve ‘İslamfobi’ gibi sorunların tartışılmasını, inançları ve aidiyetleri yüzünden dışlanan ve sorgulanan müslümanların bu konudaki hassasiyetlerinin anlaşılmasını da sağlayacaktır.

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This article is an attempt to understand one of the paradoxical statements of Max Weber in his famous Science as Vocation lecture: "Heute aber ist es religiöser »Alltag«". In this article, I argue that Weber's idea of "alltag" is the fundamental problem of sociological thought, which stands at the intersection of theoretical analysis and conceptual abstraction on the one hand, and a kind of unbegrifflichkeit, pretheoretical and non-conceptual on the other. Thus, from Weber's rationality types to forms of domination (herrschaft), routinization (veralltaglichung) and charisma (charisma) to the question of method in social sciences (ideal-type and value independence) and Weber's controversial Freiburg lecture in 1895 I think many of the key concepts and questions can be re-read through Weber's idiom of "everyday", from his famous Politics and Science as Vocation lectures to his politics that were oddly consistent. Within the scope of this article, we will try to answer these questions only in the context of the sociology of domination and religion. In this way, we will be able to see not only a different reading of the sociology of Max Weber, but also its unconceptualized background. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There is a conflict in social sciences about how to conceptualize structural period of change that Turkey has passed through in the first half of 20th century. This conflict turns up when the period is explained with concepts of westernization, being contemporary or modernization. Nevertheless, there is a significantly consensus about changes that have been in Western orbit. While westernization thesis acts as a template in the analysis of Turkish modernization, it is accepted that Turkey will not create a unique modernity. It is the fact that conceptual disagreement and templateism reveal problems in analysing Turkish modernization. This article emphasizes the need for a theoretical perspective to address those problems. Therefore, it is necessary to reveal on which principles and foundations of modernity are based. Thus, the connection can be established with the transformation process of Turkey and modernity. However, Turkish modernization represents a different version of modernity. Multiple modernities and later modernities approaches show the way to save the analysis of Turkish modernization from Western centricity. Through these approaches, it shows the emergence of Turkish modernization with the implementation of a national modernity project. Therefore, this study proposes a conceptual perspective for the analysis of Turkish modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bu çalışmada, Tanrı düşüncesinin, farklı dünya görüşleri içerisinde, mahiyet değişi- minin tarihi ve ontolojik görünümü tartışılmaktadır. Kadim dünya metafiziği ile modern dünyada oluşan din düşüncesinin kutsal dekoratif biçimleri üzerine oluşturduğumuz makale, metafiziğin ve kutsalın tezahür biçimlerini sorgulamaktadır. Metafiziği tarihin içinde, kutsalı modern aklın yapısı içinde aramamız, iki farklı dünya görüşünün ger- çekliğinde ortaya çıkan bir zorunluluktu. Zorunluluk, modern düşüncenin doğuşuyla birlikte ortaya çıkan tarihi kopuş ile meydana gelmektedir. İki farklı anlam dünyası, her ne kadar insanın davranışlarında geçişkenlik gösterse de, ontolojilerin yapısında birbirine kapalıdır. Birinin, ötekinin mekân bilgisini yok saydığı bu büyük dönüşüm, iki farklı dünya görüşü özelinde, aklın yapısında da farklılık yaratmaktadır. Kadim dünya için ak- lın nesnel yapısı, evrenin kozmik yapısında kendinin de dâhil olduğu bir uyum ararken; modernliğin öznel aklı, kâinattaki her şeyde matematiksel bir düzen kurmaya çalışmıştır. Her şeyin yeri, bilimsel ve ilerlemeci bir yöntem üzerinden yeniden belirlenmiştir.

Sosyal eylem, toplumun ferdi olmak üzere toplumsal değer, inanç ve kurallaşmış ilkeleri içselleştirme edimidir. Sosyal eylem, toplumun ortak bilgi, değer ve ilkeler üzerinde uzlaşıp bunları süreklileştirmesi ile kurumsallaşmaktadır. Her türlü toplumsal veriyi içselleştirme süreci ise sosyalizasyon olarak adlandırılmaktadır. Modernite, ekonomik ve siyasal etkinlik aracılığıyla toplumsal değer ve normları yeniden yapılandırma yeteneğine sahiptir. Bu nedenle modernite eleştirisi sosyolojinin daimi konusudur. Richard Sennett bu eleştiriyi, sosyo-psikolojik yaklaşım beraberinde, yeni toplumsal kurumların ürettiği değer ve ilkelerin insan ilişkisini şekillendirmesi açısından geliştirmektedir. Toplumsal kurumlardan dönüşüme daha yatkın olan ekonomi ve siyaset, sosyal evreni inşa ettikleri kanallarda etkileşimi zayıflatmışlardır. Etkileşimin zayıflığı, genel olarak toplumsallaşmanın doğasının bozulması ve bireyselleşmenin artması anlamına gelmektedir. Bu makalede de Sennett’in çalışmalarında aktör olarak öznenin, toplumsal kurumların ve sosyalliğin modernite tarafından nasıl dönüştürüldüğü incelenmektedir.

Today, an important part of Islamic thought has a problematic attitude regarding modern world on discursive level. Currently, there are two extreme approaches towards modern world in the Islamic world. One part of them rejects the modern world with its all characters completely and wants to return "Golden Age". Another part argues Islamization of the modern world with its all aspects. Both of these approaches, namely, revolutionism and reformism are having many problems. Firstly, it is impossible to turn back. We live in modern world. But, modern world has come out with some new situations. These new situations are political, economic, technological, etc. Both of these approaches don't solve these problems. We need a new approach, a third way, towards modern world. In this context, the new approach must be our prophet's method. While our prophet was spreading out the messages of Allah and he was calling to Islam, he applied three ways to change his society. First of all, he changed some practices entirely. For example, interest abolished and replaced karz-ı hasen, a special interest- free lending system. We can call this application revolutionist. Secondly, he revised some practices, for example polygamy didn't prohibit, but it limited and based on a legal framework. This applications can called reformist. And thirdly, he didn't change some practices and allowed to go on them. For example, forbidden moths are protected. In this context, Prophet Mohammad says "Good things in Jahiliyya are good in Islam as well." We can call conservatism for this application. As a consequence, we can say that Islam is not merely revolutionist or merely reformist. Its position changes according to case. So, he offers a model for us to understand the world we live in. We, as Muslims, can understand modern world and figure out our problem with this triple approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nurettin Topçu Kemalist modernizme yönelik muhalefetin önde gelen entelektüel figürlerindendir. Aktif siyaset içerisinde yer almak istese de esas etkinliğinin fikir üretimi olduğu söylenebilir. Bu çalışmada, cumhuriyetçi modernleşme sürecine, onun vaz ettiği modernlik tasarımına ve bu tasarımın siyasal, toplumsal ve kültürel pratiklerine yönelik felsefi ve siyasal bir direnç/muhalefet geliştirdiği söylenebilecek ayrıksı bir düşünce adamı olan Nurettin Topçu’nun, sözü edilen ‘ayrıksı’ konumu ve bu ‘ayrıksılık’ın nitelikleri üzerinde durulmaktadır. Türk sağ siyaseti ve muhafazakâr çevrelerince ‘hüsn-ü kabul’ gören ve taltif edilen bir düşünce insanı olmasına rağmen, bu kabul ve taltifle tezat oluşturacak bir biçimde Topçu’nun sözü edilen siyaset ve çevrelerde ‘tutunum’ sağlayamamış bir entelektüel olduğu söylenebilir. Bu çalışmada Topçu’nun sözü edilen tutunumsuzluğunu açıklayabilmek için Karl Mannheim’ın ideoloji ile ütopya arasında yaptığı ayrımdan kalkılarak hareket edilmektedir. Makalede Topçu, Mannheimcı bu ayrım göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, öne sürdüğü fikirler ve bunların vazettikleri itibarıyla ‘ideoloji’den ziyade bir ‘ütopya’nın, ‘muhafazakâr bir ütopya’nın savunusunu yapmaktadır ve tutunumsuzluğunun temelinde de bu yatmaktadır.

For the emergence of a community or a nation, it has always been necessary to bring local identities and different ethnic groups around one common cultural center. However, the process of integrating individuals into a dominant ethnicity or cultural centercertainly causes several social, cultural and political problems. During theprogress of communication systems from the newspapers to the television and the social media, the issue has gained momentum with the expression of reactions to the ethnical cultures which were formed centrally. It is interestingthat social studies highlights identity studies which focuses on diverse issues ranging from the question of how administrative authoritiescan manage counterweights other than the center to the question of what is the legitimacy of giving privileges to the members of minority groups. This situation arises as a natural result of social, cultural and political centralization, and from the increasing concern in social sciences about gathering data as it needs to give an immediate answer to the question of how to restructure the social positions and the roles of minority groups which realize that they are different from the center. This study focuses on the historical and social origins of the growing popularity of identity studies in social sciences. In this regard, the development and the growing popularity of identity studies and the types of data it provides community and their problems are examined in this study.

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On yedinci yüzyıldan beri Batı düşüncesini Yöntem söyleminin belirlediği aşikar bir olgudur. Modem felsefede Descartes'la başlayan yöntem tar­tışmaları bugün de devam etmektedir. Feyera­ band'ın Against Method , Gadamer'in Truth and Method ve Sheldon Wolin'in "Political Theory as a Vocation" adlı çalışmaları metot namına yapılmıştır.

Modernleşme ve din ilişkisi, şüphesiz son iki yüz yılın (ve muhtemelen insanlık tarihinin) en büyük meydan okumasını içinde barındırıyor. Zira 18. yüzyıl Aydınlanma filozofları, yepyeni bir kültür felsefesi yaratırlarken, bütün sosyal kurumlar gibi dini de yeniden kurmak ve kurgulamak peşin­ deydiler. Bunun takipçisi olarak modernizm ise dini büsbütün reddetme ve ortadan kaldırma cüretinde bulundu. Bugün geldiğimiz noktada bu sözler biraz iddialı gelebilir ve abartı olarak görülebilir ancak 19. yüzyılda modern bilim pozitivizm felsefesi ışığında zirvesine çıkarken bilim adamları arasında aykırı düşünenler neredeyse yok denecek kadar azdı.

This article deals with the epistemolojik and sociologic basis of the reliogious idea in Turkey. During the period of the Republic, the structure of the religious thougt in Turkey is not pure clar as black and white are different. It seems difficult to say that there was a religious thought in an intellectial sense until 1950's. But, it may be said that fulling this space in that period was mostly the ulama (tashra ulaması) and the Shaykhs ofcprovinces who represented the parallel İslam. The referense of which stood on the thought of offıcal İslam could not avoid from the traditional form. So. During the period of the Republic. The formation of the religious thought was taden info consideration in respect of neither the reality which modernity brought nor the reality of the Revelation (vahy). On the contrary. It may seemed that as a result of poor effort which stood on the narration of the both the pieces of the modernityand the lefts of the religious thought that was formed in the historical area

The authority that has been accepted as a sacred phenomenon by many The problem of relationship between sacred texts and authority is generally explored within two seemingly opposite approaches: Genetic and historical. However, the essential problem, which can be grasped within these approaches, reveals itself when interpretive traditions or strategies of interpretation of sacred texts transform themselves into an authoritarian character which hides itself behind the politics of turning sacred texts to an image or mask under the label of 'sacred authority'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to elaborate on the democracy conception of French sociologist Alain Touraine who has developed comprehensive thoughts about the philosophical heritage of modernity. The conception of democracy constitutes the core of Touraine's theoretical efforts. Touraine builds his sociological approach on the conceptions of Subject and Reason which he perceives as two fundamental philosophical legacy of Enlightenment stream and constitutive components of modernity. From this point of view, he defines the ideal domain of praxis between the Subject and Reason and between the social actors and social system as "democracy". In Touraine's understanding, the conception of Subject and the conception of democracy are strictly interrelated. Democracy has three dimensions including the representativeness of the governors, citizenship and yet the limitation of the power. There is no idealistic relationship between these three dimensions; hence any essentialist conception of the power is incompatible with the thought of democracy. It is false to explain democracy with only one of its dimensions, so democracy should be defined on the basis of interdependence between its dimensions. Also, according to Touraine, neither a pure differentialism nor the universalism of Enlightenment Epoch can establish the democratic social and political order. What makes democracy indispensible today is the sheer necessity of "living together" of the individuals and groups who exist within the same integrity differently and even in contrast to each other, and yet in brief who are both alike and divergent as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When we look at the rise of modernity at the last two centuries which occurs especially in the area of finance, naturally the Islamic world and the Muslim community make a struggle against this unconscionable attack to search for a way out. Cruel and vulgar exploitation of all the earth, including especially resources of the countries outside the western basin, constitutes the financial strength of the modern West as a result of its secular mentality which knows no boundaries. We use the term of “cruelty” because, today majority of the world’s important sources, are under the attack of the Modern Western civilization both conventionally or covertly. When it comes to values that form the basis of western civilization are not its pseudo-scientific development, technological breakthroughs or brilliant moves in the commercial area. The power of west, mentioned above, can never be underestimated and this power comes from its incorrigible appetence and skill! to exploit the societies outside its geography both conventionally or covertly. So it seems too hard for Muslims to show a strong resistance at the desired level against this power especially by emulating this power at the practical level but not in a mental sense. In this study, we will try to discuss about how Muslims do/should struggle, both mentally and practically, against looting attacks comes from western civilization that ruin the all of the accumulation of humanity. This struggle represents a useful effort for not only Muslim community but also the whole of humanity under the infests of modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Body and the interventions against the body are among the social cases mentioned frequently in the different phases of modernity. The body, which -as if a puzzle- is constantly reshaped with easthetical and surgical interventions, is rebuilt with the hedonist form of the consumption society. Different from the classic phase of the modernity, body is visualized with an easthetical perspective in the consumption culture. While the body is objectified with the commercial concerns of the visual culture, as the daily life is invaded with medical discourses, the interventions against the body are both correlated and justified with health and wellbeing. The need to glamorize our world -which is spoiled with the rationalismwith artificial sanctities, leads interventions against the body be regarded as the perfection(ing) rituals. This article makes a reference to the sacred status of the body within the consumption society and it aims to analyze the "perfection(ing) rituals" as the body intervention concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study focuses on the female body and sexuality manifestations in traditional and modern society. In this article, it is asserted that domination over women's bodies and sexuality did not disappear completely even though society evolves to modern society; moreover new dominations have been established in the modern consumption society. It is indicated that woman identity which is evaluated as subordinate especially in terms of male-dominated structures and "honor" in traditional society, is problematized through the indicators of hedonistic and impressionistic features in the framework of ideological mandate of capitalist consumer market in modern society. In this context, despite the progress in terms of visibility, taking initiative and freedom status of women along with the development of modern consciousness and culture in capitalist consumption society; the way that woman body or sexuality is presented has ironically evolved in a direction of "derogating" the woman and resulted in "consumption of women" by degrading "sexual object". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Modern era's understanding of culture overlooked culture, as a social and cultural analysis category as well as a way of life. This point of view has lost its validity and culture gained significance as an area where rulership and power struggle exists. Especially the privileged existence of popular culture; having an interdependence attachment to power relations in addition to an allowing structure for alternative discourses other than the official discourse is a cruicial asset. This article examines Eurovision Song Contest with its over 50 years of traditionaled history, as a noteworthy television program of popular culture. Despite often being considered as "kitsch", the contest refers more than of an ordinary song competition. The artists who participate in the contest compete for the country they represent rather than an individual race which takes "national identity" more on stage. In this respect the contest has a stimulus effect on national consciousness. This alerted effect can clearly be seen on public debates just before, during and after the contest. It is claimed in this study that Turkey's position in Eurovision Song Contest offers a view of the "cultural struggle" towards Western civilization since the beginning of the modernization process. In this framework this study primarily focuses on the relationship between identity and culture, followed by the role of popular culture in the construction of cultural identity. Afterwards the study tries to discover how does this contest became a tool of cultural struggle in Turkish society by analyzing the news and the discource of the news that took place in national print media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is the nativism which is one of the key issues in the history of modern Turkish thought. Nativism is an idea that is accompanying especially Turkish right's approach to many political and social debates. This study has been working to identify and draw attention to the changing use and function of nativism through some of the selected agents of the Turkish right. Although any nativist claims identify itself as opposed to modernity, it could be said that nativism does not exclude a positive relationship with modernity. This relationship is emerging as more synthesis or articulation. The emergence of synthesis or articulation pursuit is relevant to the historical transformations of modernity. This will also show that, despite all the negative claims to modernity, nativism can be evaluated in the modernist imagination. However this modernist imagination could only be described as an incomplete modernism because of its essentialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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