Vulnerability and Human Rights
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 fr…
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- ISBN: 978-0-271-02923-8
- EAN: 9780271029238
- Produktnummer: 2412540
- Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 254 g
- Gewicht: 254
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Among his many publications are the Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, and The Sage Handbook of Sociology.
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