{"product_id":"kultur-fragmanlari_349538-html","title":"Culture Fragments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003eTurkish society has been undergoing rapid change for the past twenty, twenty-five years. This rapid change gives rise to a cultural landscape that, at first glance, might be perceived as peculiar, incongruous, and complex. This book aims to draw a more legible cultural map of contemporary Turkey by taking a closer look at various aspects of everyday life. The authors, recognizing that to utilize the liberating potential of postcolonial theory one must avoid solely focusing on the hegemonic West, reject the cardboard cutouts presented to them as models for their society and undertake a challenging cultural analysis. The book concentrates on fundamental trends and shifts in social identities, examining changing forms of social stratification, how this change is reflected in housing and consumption patterns, relationships between different classes, and perspectives on education. Culture is treated as both a field of production and political struggle, analyzed through the unique symbols of language, folklore, film, humor, and Islamist political mobilization. In addition to Turkish identities, the identities of Turkish immigrants in Europe are also included in the examination... \"Culture Fragments\" is a book that proves how illuminating a close-up examination of various aspects of life, from the marketing of the headscarf as a fashion item to the media's interest in transgender lifestyles, from \"maganda\" humor to apartment doormanship in big cities, and how people live and experience them, can be in understanding the dynamics of a changing society...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003csub\u003e\u003c\/sub\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cs\u003e\u003c\/s\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metis Yayıncılık","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39409049665731,"sku":"9789753424424","price":630.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/products\/9789753424424.jpg?v=1616018382","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/kultur-fragmanlari_349538-html","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}