Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice

The Burdur Region has been a human settlement since the Paleolithic Period. Many ofthe mounds that represents Anatolian Prehistory were located in the Burdur Region and Hacilar Mound, Kuruçay Mound, Höyücek Mound are some of them. It was stated that this region was inside of the borders of the Arzawa Kingdom in the 2n…

1. Introduction. A Sociology of the Camp? Part 1: Theorizing the Camp 2. Exception and Emergency 3. Biopolitics 4. Risk and Terror Part 2: Inside the Camp 5. Spaces: From Refugee Camps to Gated Communities 6. Bodies: From Rape Camps to Sex Tourism 7. Fantasies: From Fight Club to September 11 8. In/Exclusions: From Fa…

This chapter first critiques mainstream sociology for focusing excessively on the relation between individuals and society, rather than on what it takes for societies to be transformed in a way that favours the dominated. We critique methodological individualism in favour of developing a theory of social emancipation.…

This review critically analyzes James Scott's book, Domination and the Arts of Resistance. Scott's account explores the mysteries of unequal power relations in society and the reflection of human behavior in the intellectual world. The book examines the reflections of people's positions on their actions in social life…

• FATMANUR PARLAK

This review critically analyzes James Scott's book, Domination and the Arts of Resistance. Scott's account explores the mysteries of unequal power relations in society and the reflection of human behavior in the intellectual world. The book examines the reflections of people's positions on their actions in social life…

• MAZHAR İSLAM RAHMAN

This article aims to inspire an analysis of modernity that would provide a starting point for conceptualizing multiple modernities. First, I argue that conceptualizing modernity as an open-ended horizon engenders spaces to interpret modernity in multiple ways. A view of modernity is thus developed that questions total…

• İBRAHİM KAYA

Bu calismada sosyal bilimler dunyasi icinde onemli bir yere sahip olan P. Bourdieu sosyolojisinin uc anahtar kavrami uzerinde durulacaktir. Bunlar sirasiyla habitus, sermaye ve alan kavramlaridir.

• ADEM PALABIYIK

The article highlights two contrasting ways in which social theorists have been trying to define the ontological boundaries of sociology since the early days of the discipline. Some (e.g. Durkheim, Weber, and critical realists) have attempted to demarcate social reality as a causally autonomous and qualitatively disti…

• MEHMET NEDİM KARAKAYALI

This article explores Max Weber’s theory of inequality and social stratification. In the first section, we explore Weber’s sociological methods applied in a stratification framework, multiple causalities, and probability and subjective factors. In the second section, Weber’s multiple conceptions of class, status, and…

• KEMAL AYDIN

C. Wright Mills, toplumbilimsel düşünü, en yakın ile kişisellikten en uzak olanı ilişkilendirebilme yeteneği olarak görür. Mills’e göre, kişisel sorunlar ile toplumsal meseleler arasında zorunlu bağlantılar vardır. Bir sosyolog kişisel yaşam öyküleri ile tarihin hikâyesi arasındaki bağların izini sürebilmelidir. Toplu…

• ÇAĞATAY TOPAL

This paper sets out to discuss major theories of sociology of education in an attempt to reveal why we need to extend analysis beyond their current forms.It provides both a brief historical account for each theory and fundamental critiques directed towards them.Sociology of education has taken a historical turn by bre…

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