Emergent distinctions in the juridical field: the case of ''plaza attorneys'' in Turkey

Şeref, Ezgi (2014) Emergent distinctions in the juridical field: the case of ''plaza attorneys'' in Turkey. [Thesis]

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Abstract

Based on an ethnographic research drawing on in-depth interviews with attorneys working in the field of international business law in Istanbul, Turkey, this thesis examines how the macro-level changes that are brought about by the transformation and restructuring of the juridical field in Turkey are articulated at the micro-level, in the lives and careers of these attorneys. Departing from the colloquial expression of a plaza attorney, I explore the different types of cultural capital which have enabled them to build their careers in the field of international business law and investigate the links between their professional and political identities. In doing so, this thesis aims at providing an insight to the emergent fractures in the historically constituted unitary image of attorneys in Turkey. Utilizing Bourdieu’s conceptualization of the juridical, this thesis discusses the way in which the ‘newly emerging’ conceptions of professional identity challenge the ‘conventional’ understandings of attorneyship in Turkey and the existing professional hierarchies and introduce new ones.
Item Type: Thesis
Uncontrolled Keywords: Attorneyship. -- Plaza attorneys. -- Professional identity. -- Professional ideology. -- Juridical field. -- Avukatlık. -- Plaza avukatları. -- Mesleki kimlik. -- Mesleki ideoloji. -- Yargısal alan.
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Cultural Studies
Depositing User: IC-Cataloging
Date Deposited: 17 Nov 2017 22:08
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 10:13
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/34150

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