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Moral boundaries and cultural membership: perceptions of the LGBTQ in Turkiye

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.contributor.kuauthorGökşen, Fatoş
dc.contributor.kuauthorErgin, Murat
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-19T10:30:41Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractSexual minorities consistently rank as the most disapproved of group in Turkey although the LGBTQ community remain largely invisible. To explain this disparity, we examine private and public responses to "homosexuality" along four dimensions: demographic factors, social context, religion and religiosity, and public morality. The data come from a nationally representative survey (N=1893). We tested four sets of variables to explain the persistence of mistrust toward sexual minorities. The first two, demographic factors and social context, show limited explanatory power. The third dimension of personal morality is also limited, because boundaries against LGBTQ individuals also cut across religion and religiosity. The fourth dimension, public morality, a vision of moral values shaping public life and political discourse, explains the particularity of the views toward non-straight sexual orientations as the specific alignment of a moral worldview with exclusionary cultural membership. Results are significant in two ways. First, they show that the mistrust of sexual minorities is high. Second, the public displays of mistrust are different from the forms of prejudice expressed toward other groups, such as ethnic minorities. The symbolic boundaries drawn vis-avis LGBTQ individuals tells us more about the core values of belonging and solidarity in Turkish society.
dc.description.indexedbyWOS
dc.description.issue67
dc.description.publisherscopeNational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.sponsorshipTUBITAK 1001 (109K062).
dc.identifier.doi10.26650/JECS2022-1068689
dc.identifier.eissn2645-8772
dc.identifier.issn2602-2656
dc.identifier.quartileQ4
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26650/JECS2022-1068689
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/26091
dc.identifier.wos1026385800006
dc.keywordsMoral boundaries
dc.keywordsReligion
dc.keywordsReligiosity
dc.keywordsPublic morality
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIstanbul University Methodology and Sociology Research Center
dc.relation.grantnoTUBITAK 1001 [109K062]
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Economy Culture and Society
dc.subjectSociology
dc.titleMoral boundaries and cultural membership: perceptions of the LGBTQ in Turkiye
dc.typeJournal Article
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local.contributor.kuauthorGökşen, Fatoş
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