{"id":271,"date":"2018-03-04T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/?p=271"},"modified":"2018-03-04T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:00:55","slug":"lerners-idea-of-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/uncategorized\/lerners-idea-of-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"Lerner&#8217;s Idea of Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lerner is very upfront with his sympathies for the Grocer in his article. He mentions his feeling of sadness when he learned that the Grocer had died. We are made to believe that the Grocer is the prime example of modernity. For example, the author writes, &#8220;As one saw it now, the Grocer\u00a0<em>had<\/em> shown the way&#8230;&#8221; While it is certainly true that the Grocer had values consistent with the future development of Turkey, it seems that Lerner primarily believed this because he saw the Grocer as a Western figure. Among other things, he continuously points out the Grocer&#8217;s idealization of the United States. Through the story of the Grocer, it feels that Lerner is arguing that the only way to modernize is to imitate the West. Perhaps the best example of this is when the Chief&#8217;s son opens his store. Lerner writes, &#8220;The Grocer&#8217;s words of aspiration came leaping back to mind&#8230;His dream house had been built in Balgat &#8211; in less time than even he might have forecast &#8211; and by none other than the Chief!&#8221; This struck me as a strange sentence. It seems that the Chief&#8217;s son had no real agency, he was simply following the example of the Grocer. This is not the only example. Every development in Balgat is traced back to the Grocer. In this way, Lerner westernized the development of Balgat by explaining it through the vision of the Grocer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lerner is very upfront with his sympathies for the Grocer in his article. He mentions his feeling of sadness when he learned that the Grocer had died. We are made to believe that the Grocer is the prime example of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/uncategorized\/lerners-idea-of-modernity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}