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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... historical account, American civil rights are treated as human rights in a global, or at least international, framework. Notably, de Waal's elision implies either that the U.S. Constitution is in some sense a global legal framework or ...
... historical materialism (Berlin 1978, 103). In the second part of his argument, Ignatieff attacks cultural relativism, criticizing Western intellectuals and governments for their failure to condemn local or indigenous practices and ...
... historical factors—the absence of an advanced middle class, the legacy of the aristocratic landowners (the Junkers) ... historical view of the nature of freedom. In fact, Berlin's opposition to sociology appears to have been shaped ...
... historical view of the origins of rights as such, then the European Enlightenment has been a major factor in the acceptance of universal principles of rights, and it has also played a major part in the development of sociology. In ...
... historical context. In Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson (2002) traces the historical origins of human rights back to the Second Lateran Council's decision in 1139 to prohibit the use of the crossbow in wars between Christians ...
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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 | |