Human Rights and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780230551596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 208 str.

Lydia Morris

Opis

Using lots of real-world case studies to illustrate theory, this book provides an illuminating examination of what social theory contributes to our understanding of the complexities of human rights

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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).