Existential antagonisms: Boundary work and the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers

Name: Existential antagonisms: Boundary work and the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers
Author: İlhan, Ali Oğulcan, Er, Hamit Alpay

İsim	Existential antagonisms: Boundary work and the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers
Yazar	İlhan, Ali Oğulcan, Er, Hamit Alpay
Basım Tarihi:	2016
Basım Yeri	- MIT Press
Konu	Boundary-work, Turkey, Industrial design, Professional ideology, Sociology of professions
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1531-4790
Kayıt Numarası	b0bacdf0-f4c8-42be-82fd-0b25ceb7307a
Lokasyon	Industrial Design
Tarih	2016
Notlar	Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.
Örnek Metin	Industrial design (ID) is a fairly young and largely unknown profession in Turkey. Although significant developments have taken place in the field of ID in the past 15 years, the scope of scholarly attempts to analyze the sociological meaning of designing in the Turkish context is extremely limited. We use boundary work and professional ideology as salient concepts for a sociological understanding the ongoing professionalization process of Turkish industrial designers, who are developing professional identities and striving for recognition in the larger culture. This paper relies on 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with key players (i.e., ideologues) of the Turkish ID scene to analyze these boundary-work processes. We found that the positive collective identity of Turkish industrial designers is built on a formulation of negative others. These negative others are ideological antagonists that are pushed to the “other” side of the demarcation line. Negative others are especially dominant in the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers because the perceived threats from these antagonists shape the collective consciousness. However, the construction of these others is an ambivalent process in which they also become ideological “friends.” We also demonstrate that professional ideology plays a pivotal role in producing, reproducing, and legitimizing claims of professionalism.
DOI	10.1162/DESI_a_00361
Cilt	32

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Existential antagonisms: Boundary work and the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers

Yazar İlhan, Ali Oğulcan, Er, Hamit Alpay

Basım Tarihi 2016

Basım Yeri - MIT Press

Konu Boundary-work, Turkey, Industrial design, Professional ideology, Sociology of professions

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1531-4790

Kayıt Numarası b0bacdf0-f4c8-42be-82fd-0b25ceb7307a

Lokasyon Industrial Design

Tarih 2016

Notlar Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.

Örnek Metin Industrial design (ID) is a fairly young and largely unknown profession in Turkey. Although significant developments have taken place in the field of ID in the past 15 years, the scope of scholarly attempts to analyze the sociological meaning of designing in the Turkish context is extremely limited. We use boundary work and professional ideology as salient concepts for a sociological understanding the ongoing professionalization process of Turkish industrial designers, who are developing professional identities and striving for recognition in the larger culture. This paper relies on 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with key players (i.e., ideologues) of the Turkish ID scene to analyze these boundary-work processes. We found that the positive collective identity of Turkish industrial designers is built on a formulation of negative others. These negative others are ideological antagonists that are pushed to the “other” side of the demarcation line. Negative others are especially dominant in the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers because the perceived threats from these antagonists shape the collective consciousness. However, the construction of these others is an ambivalent process in which they also become ideological “friends.” We also demonstrate that professional ideology plays a pivotal role in producing, reproducing, and legitimizing claims of professionalism.

DOI 10.1162/DESI_a_00361

Cilt 32