Citizenship and Social Theory / Edition 1

by Bryan S Turner

Overview

Going beyond both traditional liberal theories of democracy and Marxist theories of civil society, leading international scholars rethink the relations between the individual and the state, community and family. They assess how social and political participation is changing in the modern world, investigate the historical roots of citizenship and its development alongside the nation state and urban society, and relate it to issues of welfare and the market. The final chapter asks whether the subordination of nation states to supranational institutions will replace state citizenship with a global conception of human rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803986114
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/14/1994
Series:	Politics and Culture series , #24
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

Table of Contents

Contemporary Problems in the Theory of Citizenship - Bryan S Turner
Citizenship in the Modern West - Barry Hindess
Citizenship, Class Inequality and Resentment - J M Barbalet
Citizenship in a Liberal Society - Peter Saunders
Cultural Foundations of Modern Citizenship - Stephen Kalberg
Psychology and Citizenship - John Shotter
Identity and Belonging
The Fragile Ethical Vision of Civil Society - Adam B Seligman
Outline of the Theory of Human Rights - Bryan S Turner

Editorial Reviews

‘An interesting collection of essays which examine the relevance of the concept of citizenship for the current debates in social and political theory' - Political Studies

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