Showing papers by "Bryan S. Turner published in 1992"

Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology

Abstract: Acknowledgements, Author's Preface, Introduction, Part One: Discovering Bodies, 1. The Body Question: Recent Developments in Social Theory, 2. The Absent Body in Structuration Theory, 3. Reflections on the Epistemology of the Hand, Part Two: Medical Sociology, 4. The Interdisciplinary Curriculum: From Social Medicine to Postmodernism, 5. The Body and Medical Sociology, Part Three: Regimes of Regulation, 6. The Government of the Body: Medical Regimes and the Rationalization of Diet, 7. The Anatomy Lesson: A Note on the Merton Thesis, 8. The Talking Disease, Conclusion: Theory and Epistemology of the Body: Interview with Richard Fardon, Appendix

Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity

Abstract: Part 1 Introduction - defining postmodernity: modernity and postmodernity, Bryan S.Turner modernity, postmodernity and the present, Barry Smart. Part 2 Nostalgia and modernity: reading Wall Street - postmodern contradictions in the American social structure, Norman K.Denzin after nostalgia? wilful nostalgia and the phase of globalization, Roland Robertson postmoderism as humanism? urban space and social theory, Scott Las Simmel and the theory of postmodern society, Deena Weinstein and Michael A.Weinstein. Part 2 Critical theory and the modern project: Habermas and the completion of "The Project of Modernity", David Ashley Lyotard and Weber - postmodern rules and neo-Kantian values, Charles Turner towards a reinterpretation of modernity in an age of postmodernity, Adam B.Seligman. Part 3 Politics, women and postmodernity: women between fundamentalism and modernity, Aysegul Baykan women between modernity and postmodernity, Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen citizenship in the semiotic society, Philip Wexler.

Max Weber: From History to Modernity

Abstract: Preface Introduction 1. Max Weber and the Panic Culture of Postmodernism 2. Max Weber's Historical Sociology Part One 3. Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses 4. Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity 5. State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies 6. Religion and State-Formation Part Two 7. The Rationalization of the Body 8. The Body Politic Part Three 9. Simmel, Rationalization and the Sociology of Money 10. Nietzsche, Weber and the Devaluation of Politics Conclusion: Sociology and the Science of 'Man'

Metabolic heat generation in dipteran larval aggregations: a consideration for forensic entomology.

Abstract: Entomology has considerable value in forensic investigations. Insect identifications can be used to establish the origin of illicit material such as cannabis (Joyce, 1984), or links between suspects and scenes of crime (Greenberg, 1985). Entomological data are often used to estimate the length of the post-mortem period. In favourable conditions, calliphorid flies may lay their eggs on a corpse within minutes of its death. Thus, by identifying the species and instar(s) of dipteran larvae and knowing the rate of development at particular temperatures, the time of death of a corpse may be inferred from its apparent post-mortem interval (Smith, 1986). Temperature records from local meteorological stations, or measured close to a corpse location, are likely to differ considerably from the temperatures actually experienced by fly larvae on or in the corpse (Greenberg, 1991; Turner, 1991). Several authors have shown that, as a corpse decays, the core temperature rises above ambient due to bacterial metabolic heat, e.g. in sheep (Deonier, 1940), in piglets (Payne, 1965) and in humans (Rodriguez & Bass, 1985). This note presents data showing that the temperatures experienced by summer populations of calliphorid larvae may be substantially higher than ambient, as mentioned by Deonier (1940), a point stressed by Greenberg (1991) but which has been ignored in most forensic entomology literature. Wild rabbits (Oryctolugus cunniculus L.), shot in the grounds of the King’s College Rogate Study Centre, West Sussex, were used as the corpses for study during July and August 1990. Freshly killed rabbits were placed individually in cages, made of 1 cm mesh chicken wire to protect them from large carnivores, and left to be colonized by egglaying Diptera: Calliphoridae. These were predominantly Calliphoru vomitoria L. together with some Lucilia spp. Temperature records were made 3-4 days after initial

Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture.

Abstract: Until recently, women have been noticeably absent from historical and sociological accounts of modernity. As a step toward remedying this situation, the essays gathered here challenge the continuing separation of sociological from textual analysis in cultural (and feminist) theory and inquiry. They address critically the question of women's writing, exploring the idea that women may begin to define their own lives and construct their own identities in a patriarchal culture through the very process of writing.They also present a cogent defense of a feminist cultural politics, including a politics of the body. Integrating material drawn from a variety of sources - feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology, and art history - \"Feminine Sentences\" is an original discussion of women's relationship to modern and postmodern culture. Janet Wolff's book represents a major statement of her distinctive position, and will be of interest to everyone working in the areas of cultural and literary theory, women's studies, and sociology.\"Women ...are sentenced to containment and silence...This collection is intended as a contribution to the overthrow of that 'sentence,' and to the process whereby women find ways to intervene in an excluding culture, and to articulate their own experience. Feminine sentences are those formulations and expressions, in a variety of cultural forms and media, of women's own voice.\" \"The literature of modernity describes the experience of men. It is essentially a literature about transformations in the public world and its associated consciousness...In so far as the experience of 'the modern' occurred mainly in the public sphere, it was primarily men's experience.\" \"I want to argue that a feminist cultural politics of the body is a possibility...There is every reason...to propose the body as a privileged site of political intervention, precisely because it is the site of repression and possession.\

The Concept of "The World" in Sociology: A Commentary on Roland Robertson's Theory of Globalization

Abstract: There has been since the late nineteenth century an important interaction between theology and sociology in their understanding of the concept of "the world"; in both disciplines "the world" is simultaneously significant and equivocal. In theology, it is that which God created, but it is also the corrupt place of human habitation. As a result, it is synonymous with sin and the Devil. Thus, "the world" expresses the alienation or homelessness of human beings: While the world is the place of human beings, they are frequently regarded as rootless strangers. For example, it has often been claimed correctly that Karl Marx's idea of estrangement had its origins in the Judeo-Christian theme of the separation of God and "Man."' Communism provided a secular soteriology for transcending this estrangement. A similar theme runs through Karl Mannheim's analysis of the utopian critique of "the world" (Mannheim 1991); through Ernest Bloch's inquiry into utopia as an "anticipatory consciousness' (Bloch 1986); and through Walter Benjamin's "inverse theology" (Bolz and van Reijen 1991). Alternatively, religious studies have traditionally recognized "world religions" as global movements which necessarily have a conception of the world as a place and of their place in the world. Different world religions have obviously had different conceptions of the nature of the world, and our contemporary view of the globe can be seen as partly shaped by these "primitive" attempts to think globally. The paradox of the idea of a world religion is that there must be something that lies outside or beyond; it typically involves the counter-idea of a region which resists incorporation within the Household of Faith or the City of God. Thus, religious ideas about "the world" have necessarily promoted the idea of the "Other." For example, the Islamic Household of Faith stands in opposition to the Household of War. Within contemporary poststructuralism, the concept of the Other beyond universalistic, standardized and domesticated

The colonisation of Anak Krakatau: interactions between wild sugar cane, Saccharum spontaneum, and the antlion, Myrmeleon frontalis

Abstract: The volcanic island ol'Anak Krakatau emerged fiom the sea in 1930. The antlion AI'rmeleonftroitialis has only b)ecCoIme estal)lislecd on Anak Krakatau within the last five years, despite having eenl plresent on the other Krakatau Islands for at least 50 years. The appearance of the antlions on Anak Krakatau seems to have coincided with the construction of a shelter hut in 1986 which provides a suitable under-floor habitat of dry dusty soil for the larnac to construct their pits. From the hut site they have extended into sub-optinial locations around the bases of clumps of wild sugarcane, .Sarcianrini sponl/alewn, on the adjacent lower slopes of the outer cone ash fields. The soil around the Snaclarunm clumps is variable. Fine deposits are suitable for antlion larvae, more gravelly soils are not. The antlion larvae inhabiting the .Saccliarun clumps are disturbed by rain wvhich destroys their pits. These two habitats, the hut and Sahliaryin sites, are the onil! places on the island that are occupied by the antlion larvae. Tley have quite different micro-climates so that the two populations are out of svnchronv with each other.

The body question

Abstract: In June 1990 the ACT Minister for Health announced that joint Commonwealth/Territory funding had been granted to establish a community-based women's health centre in Canberra. The very next month, Dr Alex Proudfoot (an adviser in the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and Community Services) filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission alleging that special women's health services are discriminatory under the Sex Discrimination Act because men cannot access them; there are no comparable services for men; men's health is worse than women's, and the services address problems that are not unique to women.