Abstract:
Turkey has been characterized as a nation that exhibits an amal gam of Eastern and Western cultural values. For a long time, Turkey had prohibited Muslim women’s wearing of the veil in many pub lic venues. Yet, the vast majority of this nation’s citizens are highly devout Muslims. Our study uses these paradoxes as a springboard for investigating early twenty-first-century religious influences on Turkish Muslim women’s attitudes toward gender inequality. We introduce the theoretical construct of diversified institutional contexts, arguing that gender is not simply a singular institutional form but rather ebbs and flows with women’s mobility across var iegated institutional settings. We hypothesize that religious devo tion among Muslim women in Turkey circa the year 2000 will be associated with greater support for gender inequality across several institutional domains, namely, family, education, the workplace, and politics. In addition, we anticipate that as women move across
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Bartkowski, Gabriel A.
Acevedo, Gulcimen Karakeci, and Favor Campbell Abstract Turkey has been characterized as a nation that exhibits an amal gam of Eastern and Western cultural values.
For a long time, Turkey had prohibited Muslim women’s wearing of the veil in many pub lic venues.
Our study uses these paradoxes as a springboard for investigating early twenty-first-century religious influences on Turkish Muslim women’s attitudes toward gender inequality.
We introduce the theoretical construct of diversified institutional contexts, arguing that gender is not simply a singular institutional form but rather ebbs and flows with women’s mobility across var iegated institutional settings.
We hypothesize that religious devo tion among Muslim women in Turkey circa the year 2000 will be associated with greater support for gender inequality across several institutional domains, namely, family, education, the workplace, and politics.
In addition, we anticipate that as women move across Dr. John P.
, Sociology, University of Texas-Austin, 1997) is Pro fessor of Sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
Dr. Gabriel Acevedo (Ph. D.
, Sociology, Yale University, 2005) is a Data Analytics Consultant specializing in human service evaluation and man agement.
He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas.
S. , Sociology, UTSA) is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the Uni versity of Essex, UK.
S. , Sociology, UTSA) is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio.