Strangers to and Producers of Their Own Culture: American Popular Culture and Turkish Young People

Abstract

American popular culture is virtually everywhere, including Turkey. Turkey is a close ally of the United States and American cultural products have long been present in Turkey. How does the presence of American popular culture in Turkey affect young people? Employing a series of focus groups comprised of Turkish university students, we explored the meanings they attach to American popular culture and the place it has in their lives. What emerged was a portrait of Turkish young people constructing themselves and their imaginations from a multiplicity of traditions, including American, into an ever changing, shifting whole. The Turkish young people in this study seem to exemplify this as they blend their lives, not always easily or smoothly, around Turkish, American, European and numerous other cultures.     

大学生篮球运动中的损伤调查与防治对策

为了找出篮球运动中损伤的原因及防治办法,通过走访、问卷调查、文献资料等研究方法,对商洛学院200名篮球爱好者进行了调查。结果显示：参加篮球运动初期,指、腕、踝等部位的损伤较多,以急性损伤为主;而后期损伤则主要集中在膝关节、踝关节,且以慢性损伤为主。指出提高思想认识,加强损伤知识的学习,改善场地器材条件,加强对易伤部位的保护,出现损伤及时治疗是减少运动损伤的主要办法。