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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... relationship to notions of suffering, on the one hand, and classical philosophical notions of virtue on the other, any study of rights needs to examine their relationship to morality and religion—that is, to the conditions that make ...
Bryan S. Turner. human rights.” Political commentaries on the relationships among human rights, citizenship, and state sovereignty are often both confused and contradictory. For example, the National Assembly of France declared in 1789 ...
... relationship between the rights of citizens and the rights of human beings. Alex de Waal (2003), for example, details how Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of political freedom and involvement in the civil rights movement had a direct ...
... relationship between health and equality of income distribution. There is a well-established argument in the political economy of health that social and political participation in society is closely associated with health outcomes. One ...
Bryan S. Turner. responsibility also informed Hannah Arendt's critique of sociology and the relationship between the social and the political. If human actions are determined, individuals ... relationship between “structure” and “agency,”
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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 | |