TY - BOOK ID - 78140400 TI - Vulnerability and human rights PY - 2006 SN - 0271053011 0271054662 0271049995 0271030445 9780271030449 9780271054667 9780271049991 0271029234 9780271029238 9780271049991 PB - University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State University Press DB - UniCat KW - Human rights KW - Philosophy. KW - Droits de l'homme (Droit international) KW - Philosophie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78140400 AB - The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights.Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion. ER -