Human Rights and Social Theory

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.>

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Lydia Morris
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2013
• EAN: 9780230551596
• ISBN: 978-0-230-55159-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Themes in Social Theory; Themes in Social Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Sociology, Sociological Theory, Behavioral Science and Psychology, community;migration;Nation;social theory