Showing papers by "Bryan S. Turner published in 2018"
TL;DR: Whereas happiness (eudaimonia or human flourishing) was fundamental to the classical thought of the Greeks and Romans, as felicitas and beatitudo were to Christianity and a 'felicific calculus' to...
Abstract: Whereas happiness (eudaimonia or human flourishing) was fundamental to the classical thought of the Greeks and Romans, as felicitas and beatitudo were to Christianity and a ‘felicific calculus’ to ...
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11 Oct 2018
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10 Oct 2018
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13 Apr 2018
TL;DR: Greedy Elites as discussed by the authors is a comprehensive account of who's at the top, and why we let them get there, and how major political and social change is typically driven by renegade elite fractions, who co-opt or sideline elites' traditional enemies.
Abstract: Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the '1%' can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there's a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century – a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; persistent poverty in the south; and rising inequality everywhere – have brought elites and 'establishments' under unprecedented fire. Yet those swept to power by this discontent are themselves a part of the elite, attacking from within and extending rather than ending its agenda. The Trump plutocracy, the entrenchment of Chinese 'communist' rule and the separatist movements now splitting Europe fit a recurrent historical pattern. 'Greedy Elites' shows how major political and social change is typically driven by renegade elite fractions, who co-opt or sideline elites' traditional enemies. Many recent analyses have chronicled elites and their excesses, bemused at their post-crisis resilience. This is the first book to combine the politics, economics, sociology and history of elite rule to present a compact, comprehensive account of who's at the top, and why we let them get there.
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19 Feb 2018
TL;DR: The majority of edited publications are often disappointing, because the various separate chapters fail to address coherently a common framework and a clear topic as mentioned in this paper, and this failure is typically an edit failure.
Abstract: The majority of edited publications are often disappointing, because the various separate chapters fail to address coherently a common framework and a clear topic. This failure is typically an edit...
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TL;DR: This article focused on the marginal extremities of Shari'a practices in Australia, through the example of a criminal case in which four Sydney-based Muslim men whipped a Muslim woman.
Abstract: This article focuses on the marginal extremities – the limits – of Shari’a practices in Australia, through the example of a criminal case in which four Sydney-based Muslim men whipped a Muslim conv...
7 citations
11 Oct 2018
TL;DR: The authors argues that populism and the crisis of democracy cannot be understood without an examination of the demographic transformation of modern societies and demonstrates that declining total fertility rates and the aging of the population are the background conditions for the populist emphasis on the threat of immigration, the connection between the family and the survival of the nation and the defence of the dignity of women.
Abstract: [Extract] This chapter argues that populism and the crisis of democracy cannot be understood without an examination of the demographic transformation of modern societies. It demonstrates that declining total fertility rates and the aging of the population are the background conditions for the populist emphasis on the threat of immigration, the connection between the family and the survival of the nation and the defence of the dignity of women. Austrian right-wing populism has been in electoral terms highly successful, populist support for the traditional family and the domestic role of women is not confined to Catholic Europe. The chapter presents complex picture of the interactions between demographic change, immigration, gender and religion in modern populism, but perhaps the picture is in fact more complicated. The emphasis on the proper place of women in the home prompts one to ask whether this defence of the dignity of women points to a crisis of masculinity as one hidden basis of populism.
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12 Jun 2018
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24 Apr 2018
TL;DR: Turner et al. as discussed by the authors consider the reformulation of the Tobin Tax as a basis for creating human duties as a necessary foundation for human rights, and propose a sociologia-based discourse of global social reality.
Abstract: Citizenship is fundamentally a western political and legal concept; it is also a concept relevant specifically to a national polity. By contrast human rights have been, since their formal proclamation in 1948, promoted as universal rights. The relationship between the social rights of national citizenship and the human rights of the Declaration provides a useful case study in which to discover whether sociology can provide concepts and theories that function across conceptual boundaries and territorial borders. Furthermore, human rights discourse may prove to be the primary candidate for sociology to operate as an effective discourse of global social reality. However, human rights require duties if they are to be binding. This article considers the reformulation of the Tobin Tax as a basis for creating human duties as a necessary foundation for human rights. Sociologia global y la naturaleza de los derechos La ciudadania es fundamentalmente un concepto politico y legal occidental; es tambien un concepto especificamente relevante para la politica nacional. Por contraste, los derechos humanos han sido propuestos, desde su proclamacion formal en 1948, como derechos universales. La relacion entre los derechos sociales de la ciudadania nacional y los derechos humanos de la Declaracion proporciona un estudio de caso util para descubrir si la sociologia puede proporcionar conceptos y teorias que Societies Without Borders 1, 41–52 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 SWB 1,1_f4_41-52 4/12/06 6:45 PM Page 41 1 Turner: Global Sociology and the Nature of Rights Published by Case Western Reserve University School of Law Scholarly Commons, 2006 funcionan a traves de fronteras conceptuales y territoriales. Ademas, el discurso de os derechos humanos puede convertirse en el primer candidato de la sociologia para operar como un discurso efectivo de la realidad social global. Sin embargo, los derechos humanos requieren deberes si queremos que sean efectivos. Este articulo analiza la reformulacion de la Tasa Tobin como base para la creacion de deberes humanos como un fundamento necesario para los derechos humanos. La sociologie et le caractere des droits On pense de la citoyennete comme un concept occidentale politique et juridique; mais elle est aussi un concept specifiquement lie a la nation. Par contre, depuis leur proclamation formelle en 1948, les droits humains sont juges des droits universels. Le rapport entre les droites sociales de la citoyennete nationale et les droits de l’homme de la declaration fournit une etude de cas utile dans laquelle pour decouvrir si la sociologie peut fournir les concepts et les theories qui fonctionnent a travers des frontieres conceptuelles et des frontieres territoriales. En outre, le discours de droits de l’homme peut s’averer etre le candidat primaire pour que la sociologie fonctionne comme discours efficace de realite sociale globale. Cependant, les droits de l’homme exigent des fonctions s’ils doivent durer. En fin, cet article considere la reformulation de l’impot de Tobin comme base pour creer des devoirs humains comme fondation necessaire pour les
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