Vulnerability and Human RightsPenn State Press, 29 oct. 2015 - 160 pagini The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights. Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion. |
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... citizenship and human rights. I am grateful to the students who took the Part 11B paper ''Soc 6'' and who, through ... social and political theory, and the Master, Brian Johnson, was enthusiastic in his support of my project. Jack ...
... citizenship and human rights as they are manifested globally in legal ... social rights are created by states. These two contrasted ideas—the ... citizenship is declining, and yet the state and citizenship remain important for the ...
... social services through income tax are obvious indications of social citizenship. As we will see in the course of this discussion, there are many problems with this definition, but it will suffice at this stage as a minimal account. By ...
... social rights increasingly vague. This study of rights explores this ambiguity between the claims of citizens and the ''rights of man.'' Understanding the relationship between citizenship and human rights is key to understanding the ...
... social changes that are associated with globalization. These changes include: the partial erosion of national sovereignty and the growth of postnational citizenship; the emergence of global markets, especially a global labor market, and ...
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3 Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory | 45 |
4 Reproductive and Sexual Rights | 69 |
5 Rights of Impairment and Disability | 89 |
6 Rights of the Body | 111 |
7 Old and New Xenophobia | 129 |
References | 143 |
Index | 151 |
Back Cover | 157 |