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Öğe Bathing the Dead, the Dirty Work: Stigmatization of Gassals in Modern Türkiye(Sage Publications Inc, 2024) Sagir, AdemThe present study examines the transformation of the profession of Gassals, dead body bathers in Islamic culture, from a prestigious role to a stigmatized job in modern Turkiye. Through a qualitative research design, this study employs a combination of participant observation and in-depth interviews with Gassals in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. In the study conducted with the purposeful convenience sampling technique, in-depth interviews were conducted with 19 participants (3 male,16 female). Ultimately, the study raises three major modernity-related claims: Modernity marginalizes death and excludes it from daily life, primarily functions to secularize the public sphere and excludes religious issues, and presents the dead body as dirty, as it sees the body as a biological mechanism, as a product of standardization and institutionalization. Their job involves physical contamination due to direct contact with deceased bodies, and this solid physical taint overshadows the overall dignity of the profession. The three main findings of the study are important. First, community members perceive it as a reminder of death. The second is the modern human tendency to avoid death in the domains of everyday life, primarily through institutions such as hospitals. Lastly, the stigma toward gassals may be explained by them losing their status in the modern era under the influence of institutionalization despite enjoying a prestigious status in the past.Öğe A Forgotton Community in Diaspora: The Black Sea Turks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan(Karabuk Univ, 2013) Sagir, AdemThis work has been prepared for a purpose to make a social structure analysis of Black Sea Turks exiled from Batumi to Kyrgyz countryside by Soviet Russia in 1944. The main concern for choosing the Black Sea Turks is their being a community which is worthy of investigation. In that, we can see that they keep their cultures alive from the horon, entertainments, guests' rituals to folk songs though they have been living for 65 years far away from their origin region. Another reason making the Black Sea Turks special is that, unlike other exiles, they're not a diaspora community in that number and size, but they act like diaspora communities. And it should be noted that, they have begun to lose their culture slowly as older generation fades from the scene. Therefore, this study is significant in terms of the concern of creating a zero point and being a source for the studies about Black Sea Turks in the future. In this study, it has been aimed to make a social structure analysis by carrying out qualitative and quantitative techniques.Öğe The Hidirellez as a Reinterpretation of Culture: Migration, Death, Sacrifice, Graveyard (Case of Karabuk)(Geleneksel Yayincilik Ltd Stl, 2021) Sagir, AdemCulture gives itself to the basic framework in which communities define themselves and make sense of the world. This framework also answers the questions who am I? and where am I? In terms of playing a central role in community life, transition rites are important cultural practices that direct/direct people's behavior and attitudes. Many rhythms of transition, such as birth, weddings, and death, corresponding to the areas in which people intensively generate attitudes and behaviors. Hidirellez is one of the transition ceremonies celebrated commonly in many different ways. Many practices which have been implemented from the history up to today are available in these ceremonies. One of the common points in these rituals is food and the other is the sacrificial animal and religious offering. The study was made in a perspective including the ethnographic observations spreading over 4-year long period and the interview in depth. The fact that the researcher has been settled in Karabuk for a long time has been an important tool in the construction of the field by long-term experience. The research considered the meanings attributed to Hidirellez as the upper context in the sample of Karabuk. Moreover, the determination about how an identification a societies' members comprise in Hidirellez against the social changing became the research's sub-context. Hidirellez which is the joint share of individuals coming one-day from the upstate to Karabuk with their fellow citizens is the total of process which provides the intergeneration connections beyond the spring celebration, sustains the traditions and is the expression of being from Karabuk. The most basic meaning given to Hidirellez in Karabuk was observed as the transfer of cultural practices during the study. Moreover, the concretion of this role reflected onto the results with its power strengthening the society connections and gathering the generations. When it is associated with the oppression made by the traditions and cutlure that Karabuk is an industrial city and has received the migration from the outside, Hidirellez's aforementioned aspects was found important in the context of making an identification. In the study, the data of 4-year field work which was made upon going to the villages of Ovacuma, Karit and Konari connected to Karabuk/Safranbolu was presented. The celebrations were observed in fact, and the participants were asked about the questions, the meanings that they attribute to Hidirellez, the traditions which are made in Hidirellez, the differences between the pass and today, how the society aspect is sustained, the impact of Hidirellez on the cultural memory and how Hidirellez transformed upon the migration. The qualitative research design was used in the research, and it was made of the interviews, observations and photographies. The interviews were made with 20 persons from Ovacuma, 8 in Karit and 8 in Konari (21 female and 15 male persons). In the study that it was determined that the traditional meaning of Hidirellez is valid in Karabuk, the association of traditional implementations attracted the attention and the ongoing meanings of meeting the spring in Turkish culture for centuries were found. Hidirellez turned into a ritual that the migrant people from Karabuk try to sustain their hometown identifications and to strengthen the intergenerational connections, as a different feature.Öğe Imaginary Views of Death: Cemetery, Identity, and Memory (The Case of Yazidis in Turkey)(Sage Publications Inc, 2023) Sagir, Adem; Tayanc, MehmetThe present study attempts to explore how death and beliefs fashion burial spaces. Building on in-depth interviews, we investigate Yazidis' images and symbols employed in their cemeteries and how those materials carry traces of their beliefs and cultural practices. To put it another way, we attempt to expound on the belief practices of Yazidis, the smallest minority indigenous to Turkey, through their cemeteries with the help of the visual ethnography approach. Accordingly, we collected the data through interviews with 14 Yazidis living in 5 different villages of Batman and Siirt provinces and observations in four cemeteries. The distinct contribution of this study may root in its addressing of how funeral rituals and symbols play a role in maintaining community memory in beliefs. Our findings suggest that religious memory plays a significant role in preserving religious culture and keeping the past alive.Öğe The Modernization Process of Conservative Female Identity Via Body and Aesthetics: The Ala Magazine(Karabuk Univ, 2018) Sagir, AdemThe fundamental argument of the present study was that the conservative female identity was based on the regeneration of body within modern and capitalistic context. The concept of body was focused on because it referred to a context included in interest of power, and it could be reconstructed forms again and again in an observable manner. The present study examined the ALA Magazine that had been published for one year. The main reason for the selection of the ALA Magazine was that it reflected the modernization process of the conservative female identity. In addition, the present study intended to demonstrate how the Magazine represented the stage which the conservative female identity had reached in participating in the public life after the 1980s. A distinctive characteristic of the ALA Magazine is that it attempts to make the perception of manhood opening a space for themselves by using political power - a frequently constructed perception in the conservative tradition - inconsistent with the spaces they open for themselves. According to the present study, the conservative female image bears neo-conservative and neo-capitalistic traces while the conservative female identity tries to take itself out of the male power within the triplet of aesthetics, admiration, and beauty.Öğe A New Approach Proposal: Sociological Projections of Food in the Context of Stratification Theory (Karabuk Case)(Istanbul Univ, Fac Letters, Dept Sociology, 2020) Sagir, AdemIn this study, Stratification Approach which was systematized by the resesrcher was used as it includes the forms which try to protect the specificity of food culture. The stratums were determined in three main categories as refional cuisine, local cuisine and fastfood cuisine. The categories were made with the consideration that a new approach form is presented to the literature of food sociology. This study was conducted with the qualitative procedure. Accordingly, the semi-structured interview, observation and literature review were made as the method of data collection. It was conducted by the criteria of purposive sampling in the study, and it was structured with the data of interviews which were made with 28 persons in three different groups as the maximum diversification sampling was preferred. In the research, it was designed as the main problematics to query about how the relationship that the food has with the cultural memory occurs and what vehicles it occurs with, what interpretations accompanies with the person while developing the relationship with the food, what the views come in as the place transforms the food. In the study, it was determined that the regional cuisine gets lost its specificity while being touristic and reveals the new syntheses when it is compared with the local cuisines. In the study that the foods in the touristic places gradually resembled each other, and it got lost its historical roots, it was defined as Mc-Being Chinese. The synthesis views which occur in the local cuisine were evaluated as the main extension of standardization and it was emphasized that it transforms the place into an authentic museum where the regional one is exhibited. In the fastfood cuisine stratum, it was associated with the changings that the globalization and university create in the city. This context reveals the result that the traditional food places disintegrate and the relationships around the food change. The changings that foreignnational university students created in the city were described with emphasis on the existence of places where were opened for them. The study is a distinctive one because it revives the telescopic forms of regional, local, national and global cuisine practices through the stratification approach, and as it has a suggestion to present a new perspective.Öğe Pandemic Closure in the Context of Death Sociology: Love, Sensation, and Nothingness(Istanbul Univ, Fac Letters, Dept Sociology, 2021) Sagir, AdemThis study discusses the social closure of death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Modernism created death isolation by transferring illness over to hospitals. On the other hand, the pandemic has isolated death for the first time in the social sphere outside of a spatial area such as hospitals. The absence of a ready-made text discussing the sociology of death in studies related to pandemics reveals the original value of this study. Current studies cover death not as the main constituent item but as a complementary subtitle of other topics within the text. This study addresses death as the founding item and dominant actor of the pandemic process. The study seeks an answer to the question of why death should be discussed with regard to the pandemic. The text discusses the relationship between death and society through the concept of social closure, using the concept of social closure with a basis on love and sensation. The first part of the study deals with the concepts of isolation and closure through death. The concept of death desensitization is used with regard to social space itself and which the pandemic has numbed. The study focuses on questioning why death should always be on our agenda. This focus is also intended to raise discussions on how death is managed, both in discourse and in practice. The final stage of the study emphasizes death to be the reality that will update the state of society in the age of epidemics.Öğe The Religious and Cultural Identity in Tokach Village That Only Arab-Orthodox in Turkey(Milli Folklor Dergisi, 2016) Tacoglu, Tugca Poyraz; Sagir, Adem; Arik, FerhatRelationship which will be established between culture and identity also requires to consider different social facts. All social conditions, especially history, traditions, attitudes, religion, economic perceptions, political opinion are transformed into cultural elements over time. Thus, culture is becoming a factor which shapes the identities from the outside. Today, with the increasing pressure of globalization, identity is the topic discussed in almost every area from politics, religion, and politics to education. As indicators of the basic identity have come to the forefront locality and spirituality with their extensions in discussions. While the localities represent more local belonging, the religiosity corresponds to the beliefs and rituals of the community. The study has analyzed the phenomenon of religious and cultural identity in Altmozu township of Hatay, the only Arab-Orthodox village is Tokach. In this study, cultural identity has defined and analyzed via the ethnic and religious facts. Ethnic fact is associated with being Arab as well as religious fact is related with being Orthodox. In this context the study were applied with social mobility and migration, participants' definitions of identity, relations with neighboring villages, they use information about the language, traditions, issues such as the Tokach. In this study it has used the technique of in-depth interviews and document review by the observation technique. Interviews was conducted between 3 and 7 July 2011. 50 people were interviewed with different age groups, professions and educational levels. This study has been identified that religion is a fundamental element in determining the cultural identity of participants; ethnic forms of identification only formed around elements such as language and music. Tokach Christians have been seen that they are connected to Turkey, they were described themselves sometimes the Turkish citizens or the Turks.Öğe A Religious Professional form in The Organisation of Dead Body: Gassal(Istanbul Univ, Methodology & Sociology Research Center, 2020) Sagir, Adem; Aktas, ZeynepThis study attempts to apply to the concept of organizing of dead body in order to define the change and transformation which is claimed to be experienced by the relationship between death and the society. The Gassal, which can be interpreted through the emotional effort in dead-religion relationships, are placed at the focus of the study. One of the worries of choosing the Gassal is to bring the impact of religion on death and dead bodies in the modern age, where death specialties are seen as professional work up to agenda again. Qualitative research design has been preferred in the study, and the design has been composed of observation and interview techniques. The study aims to present the first data obtained with the interviews conducted with Gassals of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The focus of the study has been on the Gassal, who could be considered as explainig the relationship between death and religion through emotional labor. Moreover, the Gassal in the death industry, where death consumption is seen as professional work, also brings the powerful aspect of religion in organizing dead bodies up to the agenda again. It is enough reason for the study to prefer the Gassal as it is subject for the fact religion is one of the fundamental criteria that forms the funeral services offered by local governments.Öğe Transformation of Academic Production Mechanisms in Respect to Digitalization of Information: Journal Publishing From Press to Digital Environment(Istanbul Univ, 2019) Sagir, Adem; Memis Sagir, PinarJournals as means of the production of academic knowledge are the platforms where academics share their work with readers. The journals today with the impact of technology are published online. The publications of electronic journals attract attention in the transformation of the production of information.They have provided diversity as an alternative to few published journals. Undoubtedly, the pressure of publication on academics has significant impact on this transformation. The increase of electronic journal publishing has increased the number of publications as well as contributing to diversification of the production of knowledge. It should be emphasized that worldwide transformations are also among the conditions entailing this type of publishing. Moreover, it is seen that journal publishing integrated to national or international congresses is one of the rising trends. The aim is to seek response to the question what academic information is by discussing advantages and disadvantages emerging with the changing system. Another significant research question is to discuss future concept of journals keeping negative and positive sides of electronic journal publications, and in the next step it is to make what information production processes will transform into questionable.Öğe Women and Womanhood Debates in the Context of Religion and Tradition: Example of Religious Khutbahs (2006-2016)(Karabuk Univ, 2017) Sagir, Adem; Demirag, HulyaThe history of women and womanhood is surrounded by a factual reality which has been affected by historic tradition, social institutions, and cultural practices. Women studies in social sciences are often nourished by feminist approaches within patriarchy debates. The hypothesis of patriarchy's being derived from religion and tradition is highly determinant while forming an estimate of women's status. This acceptance is also seen as the main reason of seeing women as a second class in eastern societies. This study represents the effort of digressing this acceptance. The main source of this effort is women and womanhood being in khutbahs used by Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey within the scope of non-formal religious education. The study aims to determine the discourses through which woman phenomenon has been expressed in khutbahs issued between 2006 and 2016 (on 599 khutbahs). In this context, 43 khutbahs issued throughout Turkey have been chosen. These khutbahs have been made content analysis under the categories of privacy, violence to family and women. Khutbahs, which are ways of non-formal religious education, are noteworthiness as they are read in mosques that gather all kind of people from society. These Khutbahs also stresses about the importance of womanhood and give chapters to respect women. Thus, how women have been expressed, the responsibilities given to women and the ways of describing women's roles in khutbahs are important to achieve the aim of the study.
