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Social Construction of Southeastern Turkey Through the Bliss
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  • Mehmet Soyer, Utah State University
  • Sebahattin Ziyanak, University of Texas Permian Basin
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Disciplines
Publisher
National Forum of Multicultural Issues Journal
Abstract

This article examines how sociological imagination of the individuals living in southeastern Turkey is constructed through Movie, The Bliss. Traditional and modern forms of life are symbolically constructed in this movie. The framework of “honor killing,” “masculinity in southeastern Turkey," “cultural deficiency,” and “othering” will be analyzed to explicate how stereotypical southeastern characters are reproduced. Content analysis technique is applied to interpret apparent and latent contents, contexts, aspects and so forth. Developed categories are revisited through Ibn Khaldun's Typology, cultural deficiency theory, Tonnies’ theory, Durkheim’s view on society, and Goffman’s framing process.

Citation Information
Soyer, M., & Ziyanak, S. (2017, January). Social Construction of Southeastern Turkey through the Bliss. National Forum of Multicultural Issues Journal (Vol. 14, No. 1).