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This chapter explains two preliminary issues for investigation of normative conflicts. First, there is no unique venue, no methodological canon for the study of normative conflict, whatever society is under scrutiny. Second, in the case of Turkey, one has to take into account problems related to the transition of an "ancien regime", an Empire, to the building of a "modern" society and a nation-state. It explores some of the fundamental features of the Ottoman ancien regime to show today's major normative conflicts and explores cultural differences in Turkey. Turkey gradually moved from an Ottoman society of consumer protection, price fixing, and monopolies and an Islamic society of interest camouflage to one of an increasingly free economic market. The chapter shows relation between state, the center, and the bureaucracy and its associated values versus the periphery, the province, and "personalistic" networks, Secularism versus religion, and Traditional kinship group affiliation, patriarchalism, and the family and women. |
