On the Warming / Modernization of Turkey Cover Image

Türkiye'nin Batililaşma / Modernleşmesi Üzerine
On the Warming / Modernization of Turkey

Author(s): Derya Erdem
Subject(s): Media studies, Social development, Social differentiation, Sociology of Politics, Globalization
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Modernization/westernization; crisis; reflexivity modernity; mass media; freedom by illusion;

Summary/Abstract: Modernization practical get crisis in third world country like Turkiye as like in the Occident – which insisted on mind's sovereignty – Society of Occident interrogates again their modernization practicals in political, social, philosophical and cultural area and they seem like in changing/transformation but in Turkey it is on one line. We can see that there is still dominant occidental modernization politics more than being admirer of Occident. In the Occident, while the last level of modernity is being discussed and interrogated base on reflexivity modernity on individualization and becoming free but counties like Turkiye is so far from that process. What is being in Turkiye is image of crisis about disperse of –by the effect of mass media in freedom by illusion, project of modernization not real, just „so-visual“ and just „so-called“.

  • Issue Year: 15/2009
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 57-68
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish