Showing papers by "Bryan S. Turner published in 1984"

The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology

Abstract: This dictionary provides not only simple one-line definitions but also entries that discuss the issues involved in, and alternative approaches to, the central concepts, theories and writings of sociology. The entries range from bureaucracy to critical theory, from epistemology to gender and from suicide to working-class conservatism. There are also useful cross-references and a bibliography to enhance the clarity of this book.

State, Civil Society and National Development: The Scottish Problem

Abstract: Capitalist sodeties in the post-war period have been characterised by nationalist revivals, regionalism, movements for ethnic minorities and subculturalism Movements for political autonomy are res

Une interprétation des représentations occidentales de l'Islam

Abstract: Traditional western views of Muslims were a catalogue of prejudice in focusing on the alleged authoritarian and fatalistic character of Islam. In the western imagery, Muslims were sly, cruel and sensual, and this image was the product of cultural con flicts in which Islam was seen as a theological and political threat to Christianity. In more recent scholarship, it has been suggested that the negative image of Islam was the product of an Oriental discourse which survived for centuries, regardless of the inten tions of individual commentators on Islam. The idea that western attitudes were wholly negative and consistent is too simplistic. There were two distinct western views of Islam, namely a roman tic aristocratic version and a critical bourgeois image of the Orient. The aristocratic wing was generally sympathetic towards Islam, because it was hostile to the development of industrial capi talism in Europe. For such traditionalists, Islam represented an escape from a process of modernisation which they sa...