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Maternal Paradox: When Nurturer Meets the Knife, Living Organ Donation From Daughters to Mothers in Türkiye This article uses the case of living organ donation from daughters to mothers in Türkiye to examine how maternal subjectivities are constructed, enacted, and transformed within specific cultural cont...

Demirhan & Gürses Köse call this the maternal paradox—a moment where care, sacrifice, and identity are both reproduced and transformed.

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What if motherhood doesn’t begin with birth but with risk?

In this new article, Sezen Demirhan & İlknur Gürses Köse rethink living organ donation beyond “altruism.”

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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922) This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to e...

Rather than a simple colonizer–colonized binary, this article shows how local state actors could reconfigure symbolic, physical, and economic power to resist and renegotiate colonial control.

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Persophilia and Aryanism: Beyond Orientalism in European Intellectual Thought This paper examines Persophilia as a racialized esthetic–intellectual formation within European thought that reimagined ancient Persia not as an exotic other but as the Aryan cradle of civilization a...

From European intellectual history to Iranian nation-building, this article shows how racialized admiration traveled, localized, and shaped modern political imaginaries.
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How did European thinkers reimagine ancient Persia as the “Aryan cradle of civilization”?
This article traces how philosophy, poetry, and racial science transformed admiration into hierarchy — with long-term political effects.
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This study examines how European Persophilia helped shape Aryanist racial thought and later influenced Iranian nationalism and identity debates.
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📊 Sociology Lens | Top 3 Most-Read Articles of 2025

From cultural production and risk,
to gendered images of science,
to the long history of elites..

Here are the three most-read Sociology Lens articles of 2025 👇

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Flattery and The Misanthrope Molière's Alceste is often discussed with reference to his misanthropic personality, but what he aspires to doing, truth-telling, has received relatively less attention. This is curious especially if...

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