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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... sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, and those working in the more traditional fields of human rights, including practitioners. Thomas Cushman is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College. He previously edited a series ...
... sociology at the University of Cambridge in 2001, but it has been influenced by more recent work with Darin Weinberg on intellectual disabilities. Towards the end of writing this thesis, Fellows of the Asia Research Institute at the ...
... let me express my gratitude to my wife, Eileen Richardson, for her care and companionship, without which this study would never have been completed. 1 Crimes Against Humanity Introduction: Sociology and Human Rights In.
... sociology of human rights finds its intellectual place within this wider context. In more detail, this extended essay is a sociological study of rights as they are inscribed in national forms of citizenship and human rights as they are ...
... sociology of the human body (Turner 1984). The analysis of rights has been predominantly the province of lawyers, philosophers, and political scientists. The contributions of anthropology and sociology to the study of rights have been ...
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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 | |