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<p>The mass violence of the twentieth centuryâs 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 beingsâ 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.</p><p>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. Turnerâs expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, a

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Author

Turner, Bryan S.

Publisher

Ed. The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271053011

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Philosophy, Humanities