Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Modernity as a Field of Tensions
• 2. Social Theory and Later Modernities
• 3. Ethnicity, Nation and Civilization
• 4. State, Society and Economy: Tensions between Liberty and Discipline
• 5. Islam and Modernity: Radical Openness to Interpretation
• 6..Kemalism and Islamism on ‘the Female Question’
• 7. A Theory of Modernity in the Light of the Turkish Experience
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index

About the Author

Ibrahim Kaya is Professor of Sociology at Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey.

Reviews

Examining the establishment and development of the modern Turkish nation-state as a case study, Professor Kaya analyses its historical background, the role of ethnicity and nation, and the ways in which state, society, and economy were configured in the Turkish republic.
International Review of Social History