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E-book: Human Rights and Social Theory

(University of Essex, Colchester)
  • Format: 208 pages
  • Series: Themes in Social Theory
  • Pub. Date: 09-Oct-2013
  • Publisher: Red Globe Press
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781350314450
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  • Format: 208 pages
  • Series: Themes in Social Theory
  • Pub. Date: 09-Oct-2013
  • Publisher: Red Globe Press
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781350314450
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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.

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"Understanding human rights as ultimately concerned with the protection of human dignity, Lydia Morris skilfully combines social theory and ethical inquiry to show how rights emerge from ceaseless confrontations in civil society. Her Through a telling analysis of the tensions between agency and structure in social theory, she offers an overview of such issues as torture, citizenship, migration, culture and cosmopolitanism. A major contribution to the sociology of human rights." - Bryan S. Turner, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA

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"Understanding human rights as ultimately concerned with the protection of human dignity, Lydia Morris skilfully combines social theory and ethical inquiry to show how rights emerge from ceaseless confrontations in civil society. Her Through a telling analysis of the tensions between agency and structure in social theory, she offers an overview of such issues as torture, citizenship, migration, culture and cosmopolitanism. A major contribution to the sociology of human rights." - Bryan S. Turner, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA
Series Foreword viii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1(15)
Social Theory and Human Rights
1(2)
The Dynamic Dimension of Human Rights
3(2)
Citizenship and Human Rights
5(3)
Rights Beyond Citizenship
8(1)
Power and Control
9(3)
Organisation of the Book
12(2)
Guidance for Teaching and Learning
14(2)
1 Understanding Torture: The Strengths and the Limits of Social Theory
16(23)
Idealism versus Realism
17(6)
The Idealist Approach: Absolute Prohibition
17(3)
The Realist Approach: Thinking the Unthinkable
20(3)
Power and Control
23(6)
Dramaturgical Analysis: The Destruction of a Personality
23(3)
Torture as a Total Social Phenomenon
26(3)
The Discursive Construction of a Social Order
29(4)
A New Kind of Enemy and a New Kind of War
29(2)
The Uncertain Boundaries of the Law
31(2)
Responsibility and Judgment
33(3)
Conclusion
36(1)
Guidance for Teaching and Learning
37(2)
2 Civil and Political Rights and the Human Condition
39(24)
The Human Condition
41(2)
Terror and the Human Condition
43(3)
The Gulag
46(3)
Social Solidarity and the Civil Sphere
49(2)
`Solidarity' and Civil Religion
51(3)
Civil Rights and the Challenge of Diversity
54(2)
Deliberation, Activism and Action Outside the Law
56(3)
Promise and Forgiveness
59(3)
Guidance for Teaching and Learning
62(1)
3 The Community of Rights: Membership, Rights and Recognition
63(25)
Normative versus Grounded Theory
65(2)
Honneth and the Moral Grammar of Social Conflict
67(3)
Expansion of Rights and the Social Medium of the Law
70(1)
The Community of Rights
71(2)
Welfare Conditionality under New Labour
73(3)
Social Rights and Human Rights in South Korea
76(2)
Stateless Citizens and Hurricane Katrina
78(2)
Redistribution or Recognition?
80(2)
Civic Stratification
82(3)
Civic Stratification, Welfare Rights and Human Rights
85(1)
Guidance for Teaching and Learning
86(2)
4 Human Rights as Trans-national Rights: Migration and Asylum
88(22)
Post-national Society
90(3)
The Limits of Post-nationalism
93(3)
Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitanisation
96(2)
Civic Stratification and Migrant Rights
98(4)
Rights as Governance
100(2)
Universal Rights and the Dynamic of Recognition
102(2)
Judgment, Recognition and Rights: The UK Case of Welfare and Asylum
104(3)
Addressing Mediation
107(2)
Guidance for Teaching and Learning
109(1)
5 The Culture of Rights, and Rights to Culture
110(25)
Rights versus Culture
110(2)
Rights as Culture
112(12)
Rights as Culture: Colonial Oppression
113(2)
Rights, Culture and Connectivity
115(3)
Rights as a Social Form
118(3)
Rights as Culture: Discourse
121(3)
Rights to Culture
124(5)
A Liberal Multiculturalism?
126(3)
Culture as Analytic: Whose Culture, Whose Rights?
129(3)
Can Human Rights be Universal?
132(2)
Guidance for Teaching and Learning
134(1)
6 The Rights of Distant Others
135(37)
A Right to Subsistence
135(3)
Imagining a Just International Order
138(3)
Grounding Obligations
141(2)
The Obligation not to Harm
143(3)
The Sociology of Denial
146(2)
Compassion, Pity and Solidarity
148(3)
Capabilities
151(2)
Humanitarian Assistance
153(2)
Distant Suffering
155(2)
Guidance for Teaching and Learning
157(2)
Conclusion: The Social Dynamic of Rights
159(13)
Rights, Recognition and Control
161(3)
The Dialectic of Universalism and Particularism
164(2)
Cultivating Compassion
166(1)
Emergent Themes
167(4)
Guidance for Teaching and Learning
171(1)
Notes 172(3)
References 175(12)
Index 187
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).