Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
A Hundred Years of Modernity 1889-1989:
A Paradigm Story
This is a hundred-year analytical history of the Paradigm of the Modern.
It is in part a treatise on sociological theory, telling the story of the demise of the modern as a dominant paradigm, a demise arising from its inner tensions.
For that understanding a journey into the inner depths of the paradigm is called for…
The narrative also contains autobiographical sketches about the development of sociology in the US, while portraying the life and thought at Berkeley in the 1960s.
“A masterful and brilliant and highly poetic vision of the last century!”
Prof. Donald Black
Social Structure and the Genealogy of Change
The Transition to Capitalism in England and France: A Study in Comparative Historical Sociology
This book is about constructing a theory of historical change. It develops a methodology for comparative historical sociology.
As much as the god-loving, hard-working, entrepreneurial, penny pinching, in short, "expansive" impulse of the yeomen, it was the lack of resilience of society, the so-called feudal society that led to the enclosures, the parliament and eventual pluralism in England. In contrast, the French village was strongly shaped by the feudal relations which secured the peasant resilience in the face of the commercial impulses of the new capitalistic classes. The state could play the major roles in the opening new societal avenues and remedying the stillness of the new economic classes in the countryside.
Our model suggests that the transitional stage in a process of transformation is governed by a see-saw between the organizational capacity of the new interests to expand and the resilience of the pre-existing institutions in resistance. Central to our model is the tenets of organizational sociology.
The Post-Modern Abyss and the New Politics of Islam: Essays in Honor of Şerif Mardin
Edited by Faruk Birtek and Binnaz Toprak
2011
Islam speaks of two languages today in Turkey: a “language of dispossesed” and a “language of (a)possessing”. Şerif Mardin, as a prominent sociologist with his work “Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics?” well anticipated and clarified this new Islamic politics.
Birtek and Toprak aim to celebrate several aspects of Mardin’s work with articles that advert this new Islamic era through a view of history and policy.
Citizenship and the Nation-State in Greece and Turkey
Edited by Faruk Birtek and Thalia Dragonas
2005
Citizenship and the Nation State in Greece and Turkey brings together papers on a transdisciplinary dialogue on nation formation in Greece and Turkey as successor states of the Ottoman Empire, and on aspects of civil society in the two countries.
The volume is divided into two parts: 'Empire and Nation-State' and 'Nation and Civil Society' and covers issues such as Turkish and Greek nationalism, the formation of the Greek State, the impact of the Greek War of Independence in transforming the Ottoman Empire, civil society in Greece during the post-World War II period, the concept of citizenship as far as the rights of women are concerned in Greece and in Turkey, and the production and reproduction of nation in the educational discourse.