
Sometimes a word is not just a word. It is a mirror of an era. Recently, while chatting with my grandmother, I used an expression we use frequently in daily life. She looked at me, smiled, and asked, “What does that mean?” At that moment I realized that even though we speak the same language, we are not living by the same words. In the past, our elders taught us words we did not know. Now the roles seem to have reversed. They are trying to learn the meanings of new words from us. “Story,” “cring
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Nida Üstün

Rainbow Fascism is a documentary produced by tabii, a digital publishing platform based in Türkiye, that engages directly with its audience. The production addresses specific ideological orientations that have become part of contemporary social and political debates, focusing on global discussions within this framework. The documentary examines its subjects through a structured narrative, incorporating diverse perspectives and examples, aiming to illuminate current areas of debate on these topic
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Burak Enes
SeImagine this: your cart is filled with the most rare and finest products in the world. You have traveled long distances and have no doubt about the value of the treasures in your hands. Yet when you arrive at a town square and set up your stall, you notice people staring at you with astonishment—and even a hint of hostility. The problem is not the quality of your product but its alienness in that very place. This is precisely the situation we respond to with one of the deepest social observation
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Meryem Yılmaz

Social inequality is one thing; attributing every advantage to guilt and every success to suspicion is another. Class hatred loses its measure of legitimate justice and descends into envy; envy then transforms into a moral claim of superiority; and this claim, in turn, becomes a desire for revenge aimed not at elevating others but at dragging down those who stand above. For this reason, class hatred is not merely a matter of economic inequality but also of how we interpret inequality itself. Mat
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İrem Naz Acar

Glocalization is a sociological and economic concept that refers to the adaptation and reproduction of global products, services, ideas, and structures according to local conditions, needs, and cultural values. The term is derived from the combination of the English words "globalization" and "localization" and is fundamentally formulated as "think globally, act locally." The glocalization process assumes that global and local dynamics do not exclude or eliminate each other but rather interlock t
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AYŞE TUBA KESKİL

Johatsu is a sociological term derived from the Japanese word meaning "evaporation" or "evaporated people" that describes the act of individuals voluntarily abandoning their current lives, families, jobs, and identities without leaving any trace. Historical Development This phenomenon first entered social literature in the 1960s when individuals seeking to escape unhappy marriages abandoned their spouses due to the difficulty of divorce proceedings.【1】 In later decades, during the early 1990s, t
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Nursena Şahin

Tarlabaşı is a historic neighborhood located in the Beyoğlu district of İstanbul, northeast of the Haliç. It encompasses an area bounded by Dolapdere Caddesi to the north, Tarlabaşı Bulvarı (where Cumhuriyet Caddesi meets Taksim Meydanı) and the British Embassy Building to the south.【1】 Over its historical development, the neighborhood has undergone major demographic, physical and sociological transformations and is today associated with phenomena such as migration, poverty, urban renewal and "s
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Kadriye Beyza Kirenci

Burakumin (literally meaning "village people" or "hamlet people") is an indigenous Japanese group historically marginalized and subjected to social isolation due to roots extending back to Japan's feudal era and traditional caste system, which has led to their classification as a minority.【1】 This community cannot be distinguished biologically or racially from the rest of the Japanese population; social differentiation has been entirely shaped by historical residential patterns and family regist
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Nursena Şahin

The Battersea Poltergeist Case, refers to a series of poltergeist phenomena reportedly occurring between 1956 and 1968 at 63 Wycliffe Road in the Battersea district of London, England, in the home of the Hitchings family. The case became one of the most debated poltergeist incidents in the United Kingdom due to the mysterious appearance of Shirley Hitchings, numerous eyewitness accounts, extensive media coverage, and decades-long documentation by paranormal researcher Harold Chibbett. Records of
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Nursena Şahin

Nüshu (Chinese: 女书) is the only unique writing system in the world that has remained exclusively female. It was developed and used for centuries by women in the rural areas of Jiangyong County in Hunan Province, China. The term literally means "women's script." This system was first introduced to the academic world in 1982 by scholar Gong Zhebing during his research on the Yao ethnic group.【1】 In scholarly literature, Nüshu is described by its uniqueness, mystery, locality, and richness. It deve
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Nursena Şahin