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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. "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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
