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Shopping Mall Culture

Shopping Mall Culture

(445 words)
July 14, 2026

The modern capitalist system spatially expresses its presence and functioning in today’s cities through shopping malls (AVM). In contemporary social structures described as a "consumption society", these centers have become an inevitable reality of urban life. The great cities of the past, once associated with production, now accommodate these massive structures where consumption is concentrated and organized.Ünal Şentürk, "Tüketim Toplumu Bağlamında Boş Zamanların Kurumsallaştırdığı Bir Mekân:

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Bahtiyar Bora ERGÜN

Bahtiyar Bora ERGÜN

Group Psychological Counseling: The Vast Shelter of "I Was Not Alone"

Group Psychological Counseling: The Vast Shelter of "I Was Not Alone"

(623 words)
July 22, 2026

In a room, six or perhaps eight people sit side by side. The same hesitation on their faces, the same avoiding glances in their eyes… Each person has come to sit there carrying their own inner storm, and each is nearly certain of this: “No one can understand what I am going through, this chaos and deadlock inside me. This burden rests only on my shoulders.” When a person is alone with their pain, they feel like the sole inhabitant of the world, the only living being carrying that wound. Even ami

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Nida Üstün

Nida Üstün

Kula Ring

Kula Ring

(552 words)
July 1, 2026

Kula Ring is an anthropological concept studied in the early twentieth century by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski using the method of participant observation in the Massim region of eastern Papua New Guinea (particularly the Trobriand Islands), referring to a ceremonial system of gift exchange between tribes. This system creates a complex, rule-bound, and continuous social bond among islands that are independent and geographically distant. Mechanism and Rules Kula trade operates through life

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Kadriye Beyza Kirenci

Kadriye Beyza Kirenci