Bryan S. Turner

Bio: Bryan S. Turner is an academic researcher from Australian Catholic University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Citizenship & Politics. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 511 publications receiving 21116 citations. Previous affiliations of Bryan S. Turner include King's College London & City University of New York.

Book Reviews : Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth. Century French Hemaphrodite edited and introduced by Michel Foucault, London; Harvester, 1980, £7.95 & £4.50:

Abstract: The work of Michel Foucault has become increasingly influential in British sociology over the last five years to some extent replacing the popularity enjoyed by Althusserian Marxists and something approaching a settled interpretation of Foucauldian thought has begun to emerge among discerning commentators. This interpretative consensus can be summarised under two statements. First, Foucault’s views on geneology and archaeology closely follow Nietzsche (Foucault 1977b, pp 139-64) In showing that history has no teleological significance, no rational progress and no continuity. History is a collection of discontinuous bursts in both knowledge and practice. For example, modern psychiatry does not involve any conceptual or therapeutic advance over earlier knowledges of madness (Foucault 1967); penology is not a humane advancement in relation to previous punishments of the body (Foucault, 1977a); medicine does not evolve or improve, since its history is one of ruptured discourses (Foucault 1973). Foucault’s project alms at a ’defamillarlsation’ of history, not at making the unfamiliar commonplace or at domesticating the strange, but at a radical relativism of historical phenomena. The ’refamillarisation’ of history Involves showing that, in the final analysis, the bizarre practices of other times and places are conformable to our notions of reason, and history thus demonstrates the universality of the human essence behind the diversity of cultural appearances. Both Nietzsche and Foucault have rejected any such perspectivism in historical analysis. Geneology, by contrast, ’corresponds to the acuity of a glance that distinguishes separates, and disperses (and which is) capable of shattering the unit of man’s being through which it was thought that he could extend his sovereignty to the events of the past’ (Foucault 1977b, p 153). The unfamiliar is unfamiliar and history is not the consoling march of reason, but the whirlpool of chance.

Possessions and the extended self.

Abstract: Our possessions are a major contributor to and reflection of our identities A variety of evidence is presented supporting this simple and compelling premise Related streams of research are identified and drawn upon in developing this concept and implications are derived for consumer behavior Because the construct of extended self involves consumer behavior rather than buyer behavior, it appears to be a much richer construct than previous formulations positing a relationship between self-concept and consumer brand choice

In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

The archaeology of knowledge

Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.