Ali Murat Yel

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Şerif Mardin, the neighborhood, and secularism
13 June 2008

Mardin uses the term ’neighborhood pressure’ to explain how values settle, sink in, and internalize. Yet, this sociological concept has been taken out of its context and applied in the political arena.
Şerif Mardin, an international academic star, has also become a household name for Turks recently, especially with his ideas of the so-called “neighborhood pressure” concerning the headscarf issue/ban/debate. Due to his academic naïveté (and perhaps his lack of political foresight as was (...)