Research Article

Secularization and the State: The “Mardin Thesis”, Literary Fields, and Social Capital

Number: 58 December 7, 2018
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Secularization and the State: The “Mardin Thesis”, Literary Fields, and Social Capital

Abstract

This article concerns the thesis that state intervention into secularization processes in Turkey vitiates those processes by making them more elitist. By demonstrating that a state action that had nothing to do with secularization pushed the secularization processes of two similar fields of cultural production (poetry and the novel) in opposite directions by changing their composition of human capital in the 1940s, it questions a key assumption of the aforementioned thesis—i.e. that it is possible for the state not to intervene in secularization. It thus calls for a secularization theory in which the state ceases to be the key independent variable—a theory that takes the perspective of civil society and of social capital instead.


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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Sociology

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 7, 2018

Submission Date

May 4, 2018

Acceptance Date

May 26, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 2018 Number: 58

APA
Büyükokutan, B. (2018). Secularization and the State: The “Mardin Thesis”, Literary Fields, and Social Capital. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 58, 177-194. https://izlik.org/JA93UL63UN
AMA
1.Büyükokutan B. Secularization and the State: The “Mardin Thesis”, Literary Fields, and Social Capital. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2018;(58):177-194. https://izlik.org/JA93UL63UN
Chicago
Büyükokutan, Barış. 2018. “Secularization and the State: The ‘Mardin Thesis’, Literary Fields, and Social Capital”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, nos. 58: 177-94. https://izlik.org/JA93UL63UN.
EndNote
Büyükokutan B (December 1, 2018) Secularization and the State: The “Mardin Thesis”, Literary Fields, and Social Capital. Journal of Economy Culture and Society 58 177–194.
IEEE
[1]B. Büyükokutan, “Secularization and the State: The ‘Mardin Thesis’, Literary Fields, and Social Capital”, Journal of Economy Culture and Society, no. 58, pp. 177–194, Dec. 2018, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA93UL63UN
ISNAD
Büyükokutan, Barış. “Secularization and the State: The ‘Mardin Thesis’, Literary Fields, and Social Capital”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 58 (December 1, 2018): 177-194. https://izlik.org/JA93UL63UN.
JAMA
1.Büyükokutan B. Secularization and the State: The “Mardin Thesis”, Literary Fields, and Social Capital. Journal of Economy Culture and Society. 2018;:177–194.
MLA
Büyükokutan, Barış. “Secularization and the State: The ‘Mardin Thesis’, Literary Fields, and Social Capital”. Journal of Economy Culture and Society, no. 58, Dec. 2018, pp. 177-94, https://izlik.org/JA93UL63UN.
Vancouver
1.Barış Büyükokutan. Secularization and the State: The “Mardin Thesis”, Literary Fields, and Social Capital. Journal of Economy Culture and Society [Internet]. 2018 Dec. 1;(58):177-94. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA93UL63UN