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    The disembedded custom: Intrafamily murders for sexual honor in Turkish metropolises
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2000-06-01) Şimşek, Sefa; Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi; Sosyoloji Bölümü
    The subject of this article is the intrafamily murders committed for sexual honor in big cities and metropolises. Murders for sexual honor and the customs concerning them are among the basic elements of traditional and rural cultures. However, great waves of migration, technological advances, development of communication, and the globalization process experienced especially since the 1980’s have radically changed the coordinates of the rural-urban, traditionalmodern and local-universal distinctions. Just like many other things have been dismantled from their contexts, intrafamily murders for sexual honor, too, have been disembedded out of their original milieu, and begun to haunt in big cities and metropolises. Therefore, the globalization process does not only involve the expansion of such concepts as democracy, liberalism and human rights that are highly valued by the civilized world, but also that of primitive cultures, violent customs and superstitions.