Browsing by Author "Kara, Zulkuf"

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Bir Sosyolojik Kavrama Teorisi Olarak Asamblaj
(2025) Oral, Seher; Ağırman, Zehra; Kara, Zulkuf
Herhangi bir toplumsal konunun nasıl tartışılacağı ya da tartışılan düzlemin ne tür bir modelleme biçimi ile kavranacağı sosyoloji biliminin akademik bağlamını oluşturur. Teorinin sosyal olandan kavramsal olarak elde edileceği metodolojik yüzey, toplumsal olanın karmaşıklığı ile birlikte düşünüldüğünde yeni ve kullanışlı bir teorinin, meselelerin yorumlanmasının önünü açacağı kanaatindeyiz. “Oluş”, “çokluk teorisi”, “soyut makine”, “persona”, “yersiz-yurtsuzlaşma” gibi kavramsallaştırmaların önerildiği bu çalışmada, kullanışlı bir analizin toplumsal yapılanmaları kavrayabileceğimiz yeni bir yöntem biçimi sunacağı kuşku götürmez. Bu açıdan asamblaj teorisi olarak özetlenebilecek ve söz konusu kavramları da içine alan bu yaklaşımın akademik literatüre katkı sunacağı muhakkaktır. Öyle ki birbirini taklit eden yöntemlerin sosyal olanın yeni yüzeylerini (dijital, soyut vb) anlama konusunda halihazırda yeterli sosyolojik çıkarımları sunmadığını söylemek zorundayız. Zaten çalışmadaki esas amacımız da sosyolojik çerçevede asamblaj teorisiyle birlikte toplumsal olanı düşünmede oluşlara yer açmaktır.
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From Sinful Bodies To Reference Bodies: a Sociological Evaluation on the Body Perception in Islam
(Dinbilimleri Akad Arastırma Merkezi, 2012) Kara, Zulkuf
As body, on the one hand, constitutes corporeal part of the organic body with its organic structure, shape, mass and color; it represents, on the other hand, the position of many identies which are identified as social gender, race and sexuality. Every state of body bears the trace of experiences we got and causes a new social organization. Body perceptions are embedded in discourses of varieties of religion, culture, ethnicity, ideology etc. Religious norms, which occupy an important place in those discourses, express themselves in a way in which they discipline the bodies. Bodies are expected to act conformingly to the norms prescribed by religion. The acts or behavior patterns, which oppose to these norms, are coded as sinful and become reasons of sanctions for the body. The bodies that respect to or obey the norms of religion are elavated to a reference point and tied with a sacred tie. In the article, it will be shown how bodies, which go around the borders between evil (sin) and good deed, beauty and ugliness, to take shape in the religious habitus.
Therapeutic Philosophy: An Ontological Inquiry into Well-Being
(Beytulhikme Felsefe Cevresi, 2026) Kara, Zulkuf; Oral, Seher
This study approaches the rise of therapeutic culture not merely as a sociological transformation but as a reduction of well-being to normative adaptation. In contemporary therapeutic discourse, well-being is predominantly defined through balance, functionality, and resilience, while therapy functions as a regulatory practice that minimizes the individual's conflict with prevailing social conditions. Such a framework confines well-being to normative stability and obscures its existential dimension. The article distinguishes philosophical therapy from modern therapeutic culture and reconsiders the ontological ground of wellbeing. Drawing on Spinoza's ontology of power and theory of affects alongside Deleuze's philosophy of difference, well-being is redefined not as adaptation but as an increase in the capacity to act. Within this perspective, therapeutic intervention is conceptualized not as a restorative model of equilibrium but as a model of encounter and composition. The study aims to contribute conceptually to emerging discussions on philosophical therapy in Turkey by proposing an ontological reconfiguration of well-being.