The Social Frameworks of Memory of Halbwachs is finally translated in Turkish!

The Social Frameworks of Memory of Maurice Halbwachs, published originally in 1925, is finally translated in Turkish with the title of “Hafızanın Toplumsal Çerçeveleri”. Halbwachs, one of the most important sociologists of the Durkheimian school, had shown in this work that the present with its institutions and their contemporary needs is much more determinant than the past during the formation of individual and collective memory.

This book, that became a classic a long time ago, has been translated in Turkish language by Büşra Uçar, a student of the Department of Sociology of the Galatasaray University, and published by Heretik Publishing House which draws the attention with its recent publication in Turkish of a number of sociological classics.

 

In Memory of Barlas Tolan : Conference, “Rethinking Anomie And Alienation”

On December 13th 2016, Barlas Tolan, one of the founders of our university and department will be remembered on the second anniversary of his loss at Galatasaray University, Aydın Doğan auditorium, starting at 10 a.m. with a conference of two sessions.

The theme of the conference being “Rethinking Anomie and Alienation”, referring to the studies and work on modernization in Turkey of Barlas Tolan, researchers and academics from the Universities of Galatasaray, Akdeniz, Anadolu and Paris Descartes will be discussing the theoretical developments in sociology concerning the validity of the notions such as “anomie and alienation”, centrality of communication and journalism practices, “the new truth regime” and the divided perception of reality in the information society.