Nuran Erol Işık is a Professor of Sociology at Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey. She got her Ph.D. from the Michigan State University (U.S.A.), Department of Sociology in 1993. Her works in political sociology, sociology of media, and cultural studies investigate problems at the intersections of culture, society, and media. Narratives, popular culture, popular religion, and language are some of the themes of her research.
Conserveries mémorielles. Revue transdisciplinaire de …, 2011
... sociologie politique, la communication politique, la citoyenneté, le genre et les médias et l... more ... sociologie politique, la communication politique, la citoyenneté, le genre et les médias et les ... of Citizenship in Turkey: Pictures from the Problematic Terrain of Gendered Politics in Turkey ». Nuran E. Işik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication ...
Muzik ve toplum iliskisi karmasik sosyal baglara isaret eden bir iliskidir. Muzigin icsel ozellik... more Muzik ve toplum iliskisi karmasik sosyal baglara isaret eden bir iliskidir. Muzigin icsel ozelliklerinin yanisira ‘sosyal’in degisken ve akiskan ozellikleri muzik sosyolojisi hakkinda temel sorunsallari tartisma ve belirli bazi konulari tanimlayabilme geregini ortaya cikarmistir. Bu makalede, muzik sosyolojisinin temel tartisma noktalarindan hareketle bir muzik turu olarak arabesk muzigin son yillarda gecirdigi donusum ele alinmakta, soz konusu tartisma noktalarinin muzik hakkinda uretilecek sosyolojik ve metodolojik gundeme tasiyabilecegi konu alanlari hakkinda oneriler sunulmaktadir.
... Feministlerin ve çokkültürcülerin türban hakkında yaklaşımlarını değerlendirerek eleştirel c... more ... Feministlerin ve çokkültürcülerin türban hakkında yaklaşımlarını değerlendirerek eleştirel cumhuriyetçilik adını verdiği bir pencereden cumhuriyeçi fikri ele alır ... öncesi ve anti-bireyci cemaatçi biçimleri ve kalıntıları olarak görüp fail kavramı yerine özerk birey kavramını kullandılar ...
Due to the ambivalent nature of modernity, citizenship has been historically used as a force for ... more Due to the ambivalent nature of modernity, citizenship has been historically used as a force for inclusion and exclusion. Societal transformations brought about the necessity to reformulate the concept of citizenship into a gendered political conception by which one can evaluate hegemonic relations of different nature. The contested nature of citizenship also provided an avenue for women‟s political participation through different means in different societies. This article aims at outlining the major theoretical perspectives on re-gendering citizenship, which brings us to more practical concerns about the political sphere: Gender mainstreaming is presented as one of the key issues on political freedom for women, which is the second theme emphasized in the article.
The purpose in the article is to understand the role of the stories as well as storytelling in so... more The purpose in the article is to understand the role of the stories as well as storytelling in sociology. Rather than focusing on the significance of textual data based on narrativity, the author aims at underlining the role of the genres such as story, myth, irony, parable, drama, and aphorism, which are used in everyday life narratives. Sociology, as a discipline offering analyses at different levels of social life can borrow from these textual data in various different ways. In this sense, the ways in which narrativity and sociology come together would be related to the way we understand sociological methodology. Just as the lullabies are outcomes of collective references relatively independent of mothers' personal preferences, meta-narratives also have a characteristic of a multilayered texture embedded in our social and historical memory. In sum, firstly, the article will enlighten the intersection between the sociology and the narrative theory, second, examples of brief insights into popular cultural texts will be provided.
This article attempts to evaluate the articulation of folk cultural symbols in the context of TV ... more This article attempts to evaluate the articulation of folk cultural symbols in the context of TV drama to discuss the process whereby the act of storytelling becomes a tool for mediated and moralised teaching. Investigating the relatively new sphere of popular piety offers a suitable avenue for evaluating the nature of popular wisdom; the process by which popular TV dramas borrow from folk culture and popular religion has become a new area of investigation because new mediatised forms of folk culture are now a common feature of many television genres. Tracing the emergent patterns of storytelling, this article analyses narratives extracted from two well-known TV serials, Kurtlar Vadisi (Valley of Wolves) and Deli Yürek (Crazy Heart) in Turkey. It is argued that in both serials the meditative role of the mentor, which involves narrating parables for the hero's benefit, constitutes one of the significant rhetorical strategies for reconstructing a piety culture.
Conserveries mémorielles. Revue transdisciplinaire de …, 2011
... sociologie politique, la communication politique, la citoyenneté, le genre et les médias et l... more ... sociologie politique, la communication politique, la citoyenneté, le genre et les médias et les ... of Citizenship in Turkey: Pictures from the Problematic Terrain of Gendered Politics in Turkey ». Nuran E. Işik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication ...
Muzik ve toplum iliskisi karmasik sosyal baglara isaret eden bir iliskidir. Muzigin icsel ozellik... more Muzik ve toplum iliskisi karmasik sosyal baglara isaret eden bir iliskidir. Muzigin icsel ozelliklerinin yanisira ‘sosyal’in degisken ve akiskan ozellikleri muzik sosyolojisi hakkinda temel sorunsallari tartisma ve belirli bazi konulari tanimlayabilme geregini ortaya cikarmistir. Bu makalede, muzik sosyolojisinin temel tartisma noktalarindan hareketle bir muzik turu olarak arabesk muzigin son yillarda gecirdigi donusum ele alinmakta, soz konusu tartisma noktalarinin muzik hakkinda uretilecek sosyolojik ve metodolojik gundeme tasiyabilecegi konu alanlari hakkinda oneriler sunulmaktadir.
... Feministlerin ve çokkültürcülerin türban hakkında yaklaşımlarını değerlendirerek eleştirel c... more ... Feministlerin ve çokkültürcülerin türban hakkında yaklaşımlarını değerlendirerek eleştirel cumhuriyetçilik adını verdiği bir pencereden cumhuriyeçi fikri ele alır ... öncesi ve anti-bireyci cemaatçi biçimleri ve kalıntıları olarak görüp fail kavramı yerine özerk birey kavramını kullandılar ...
Due to the ambivalent nature of modernity, citizenship has been historically used as a force for ... more Due to the ambivalent nature of modernity, citizenship has been historically used as a force for inclusion and exclusion. Societal transformations brought about the necessity to reformulate the concept of citizenship into a gendered political conception by which one can evaluate hegemonic relations of different nature. The contested nature of citizenship also provided an avenue for women‟s political participation through different means in different societies. This article aims at outlining the major theoretical perspectives on re-gendering citizenship, which brings us to more practical concerns about the political sphere: Gender mainstreaming is presented as one of the key issues on political freedom for women, which is the second theme emphasized in the article.
The purpose in the article is to understand the role of the stories as well as storytelling in so... more The purpose in the article is to understand the role of the stories as well as storytelling in sociology. Rather than focusing on the significance of textual data based on narrativity, the author aims at underlining the role of the genres such as story, myth, irony, parable, drama, and aphorism, which are used in everyday life narratives. Sociology, as a discipline offering analyses at different levels of social life can borrow from these textual data in various different ways. In this sense, the ways in which narrativity and sociology come together would be related to the way we understand sociological methodology. Just as the lullabies are outcomes of collective references relatively independent of mothers' personal preferences, meta-narratives also have a characteristic of a multilayered texture embedded in our social and historical memory. In sum, firstly, the article will enlighten the intersection between the sociology and the narrative theory, second, examples of brief insights into popular cultural texts will be provided.
This article attempts to evaluate the articulation of folk cultural symbols in the context of TV ... more This article attempts to evaluate the articulation of folk cultural symbols in the context of TV drama to discuss the process whereby the act of storytelling becomes a tool for mediated and moralised teaching. Investigating the relatively new sphere of popular piety offers a suitable avenue for evaluating the nature of popular wisdom; the process by which popular TV dramas borrow from folk culture and popular religion has become a new area of investigation because new mediatised forms of folk culture are now a common feature of many television genres. Tracing the emergent patterns of storytelling, this article analyses narratives extracted from two well-known TV serials, Kurtlar Vadisi (Valley of Wolves) and Deli Yürek (Crazy Heart) in Turkey. It is argued that in both serials the meditative role of the mentor, which involves narrating parables for the hero's benefit, constitutes one of the significant rhetorical strategies for reconstructing a piety culture.
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