• Self-writing habitus: The sociology of Cemal Süreya’s poetry

    Can poetry be explained through a sociological lens? Is the emergence of a new poetic form merely the outcome of internal poetic debates and aesthetic ruptures? How can the social forces be traced within poetry’s most opaque and deeply subjective dimensions? Focusing on Cemal Süreya, one of the most widely read poets in Türkiye, this

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  • What are the professions to the society? An outline in 10 points

    Professions are a central theme in sociology and among the most dynamic and encompassing social institutions. They provide identity, personality, habitus, social capital, income, lifestyle, and status, while also creating cross-cutting groups and hierarchies across different social strata. This is why we need a perspective on professions—especially in Türkiye’s multi-layered societal transformation, we must discuss

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  • Abundance of history

    Ibn Khaldun writes in the opening pages of the Muqaddimah that “history is a science for which students undertake long journeys of study, which even the idle and ordinary are eager for, from which rulers and grandees seek benefit, and which is desired as much by the uneducated as by the educated.” While these are

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  • Transformation of the professions: Doctors and lawyers

    published in 2022, Turkish Medicine and law have always been prestigious professions in Türkiye. Both have corresponded to high social standing in terms of income, status, and authority. Yet over the past two decades, the social conditions surrounding these professions, both from outside and within, have been changing. New generations entering the professions no longer

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