Human Rights and Social Theory

Lydia Morris (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2013
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-230-55160-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines the contribution social theory can make to understanding different human rights which operate in a variety of settings. Including an introduction to the theoretical issues raised by the study of rights, it covers a range of individual and collective rights, illuminating the relationship between social theory and human rights.

Lydia Morris is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK, and a member of the Human Rights Centre. She is the author of The Workings of the Household (1991), Dangerous Classes (1994), Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal (2010) and the editor of Rights: Sociological Perspectives (2006).

1. Understanding Torture: the Strengths and the Limits of Social Theory
2. Civil and Political Rights and the Human Condition
3. The Community of Rights: Membership, Rights and Recognition
4. Human Rights as Trans-national Rights: Migration and Asylum
5. The Culture of Rights, and Rights to Culture
6. The Rights of Distant Others.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.10.2013
Reihe/Serie	Themes in Social Theory
Reihe/Serie	Themes in Social Theory
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-230-55160-2 / 0230551602
ISBN-13	978-0-230-55160-2 / 9780230551602
Zustand	Neuware