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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... freedom and involvement in the civil rights movement had a direct impact on President Kwame Nkrumah at the time of Ghana's independence in 1957. In this historical account, American civil rights are treated as human rights in a global ...
... freedom” (that is, freedom from arbitrary constraint rather than freedom to develop one's personality through education). Berlin also rejected sociology because it appeared to promote social determinism over individual agency. These ...
Bryan S. Turner. over individual freedom of will as part of the scientific theory of historical materialism (Berlin 1978, 103). In the second part of his argument, Ignatieff attacks cultural relativism, criticizing Western intellectuals ...
... freedom of peaceful assembly and association). This criticism is clearly potent, but it neglects the important connection between sickness and inequality—or more positively, the relationship between health and equality of income ...
... freedom appears to be arbitrary and irrational, because human freedom requires that it be unpredictable. Weber (1949, 124–25) argued that we must distinguish between mere behavior and action, between behavior driven by instinct and goal ...
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Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory | |
Reproductive and Sexual Rights | |
Rights of Impairment and Disability | |
Rights of the Body | |
Old and New Xenophobia | |
References | |
Index | |