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Yazarlar: Başak TANÜLKÜ

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Gated communities,Capitalism and morality,Class and morality,Symbolic boundaries

Özet: This paper examines gated communities’ interactions with the outside realm, particularly with the other gated communities. The mainstream literature has mainly examined gated communities’ relations with nearby villages/towns occupied by local people, while underestimating their relations with other gated communities. For this purpose, the paper will use data from a field work conducted in two gated communities built by the same developer company in İstanbul: İstanbul İstanbul, located in Göktürk and Kasaba, in Ömerli. The field work comprises semi-structured in-depth interviews with residents in these two communities. This paper will analise residents’ motives for prefering to live in different gated communities, and their relations with other gated communities. By discussing the competition within upper classes which has intensified since the 1980s, this paper will demonstrate how residents establish their identities around “moral capitalism” by emphasizing “good” morality and “warmer” relations. Findings and discussion will contribute to Lamont’s “symbolic boundaries” (1992) approach by showing that morality is associated with class position embedded in capitalism. 

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