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.

For Weber: Essays on the Sociology of Fate

Abstract: Introduction Marx and Nietzsche PART ONE: MARXISM Logic and Fate in Weber's Sociology Weber and Structural Marxism Weber and the Frankfurt School PART TWO: RELIGION Religious Stratification Theodicy, the Career of a Concept Weber on Medicine and Religion PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT Feudalism and Prebendalism Weber and the Sociology of Development Weber's Orientalism PART FOUR: CAPITALISM Family, Property and Ideology Weber and the Sociology of Law Weber and Late Capitalism

Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Struggle over Medical Knowledge, Caragh Brosnan and Bryan S. Turner PART 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2. The Hidden Curriculum: A Theory of Medical Education, Frederic W. Hafferty and Brian Castellani 3. From Classification to Integration: Bernstein and the Sociology of Medical Education, Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont 4. Pierre Bourdieu and the Theory of Medical Education: Thinking 'Relationally' about Medical Students and Medical Curricula, Caragh Brosnan PART 2: KEY ISSUES: MEDICAL STUDENTS AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE 5. The Medical School Culture, Heidi Lempp 6. Gender and Medical Education, Elianne Riska 7. The Inclusion of Disabled People in Medical Education, Gary L. Albrecht 8. The Status of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Biomedical Education: Towards a Critical Engagement, Alex Broom and Jon Adams 9. Evidence-based Medicine and Medical Education, Stefan Timmermans and Neetu Chawla 10. Crisis or Renaissance? A Sociology of Anatomy in UK Medical Education, Samantha Regan de Bere and Alan Petersen 11. Bioethics and Medical Education: Lessons from the United States, Carla C. Keirns, Michael Fetters and Raymond De Vries 12. Sociology in Medical Education, Graham Scambler 13. Epistemology, Medical Science, and Problem-based Learning: Introducing an Epistemological Dimension into the Medical School Curriculum, Margot L. Lyon PART 3: MEDICAL EDUCATION IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS 14. Medical Education and the American Healthcare System, William C. Cockerham 15. Tomorrow's Doctors, a Changing Profession: Reformation in the UK Medical Education System, Oonagh Corrigan and Ian Pinchen 16. The Challenges to Achieving Self-sufficiency in Canadian Medical Education, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Jennifer Aylward 17. Innovations in Medical Education: European Convergence, Politics and Culture, Fred C.J. Stevens

Social Capital, Inequality and Health: the Durkheimian Revival

Abstract: ‘Social capital’ has become a fashionable paradigm for the explanation of differences in health and illness between social groups in the last decade, particularly in the public health arena. The theory provides a particularly potent criticism of the social consequences of neo-liberalism, and hence the foundation for a sociological critique of the negative effects of modern individualism. In this discussion of social capital, I want to show that its roots are to be found in classical sociological theory, particularly in Emile Durkheim's sociology. In fact, the modern debate reproduces Durkheim's attack on utilitarian individualism as an explanation of social happiness, but this dependence on Durkheim's analysis is rarely acknowledged. The notion that the quantity and quality of a person's social relationships and social networks play an important part in the maintenance of their health, and at the same time provide resources for their recovery from illness, has been a basic component of much public health research, but mainstream sociology has neglected this important vindication of the sociological tradition. In fact, social capital theory is the most promising sociological, as opposed to social psychological, anthropological or cultural, account of health and illness that we have. Although the social capital perspective is attractive as sociology, a number of theoretical and methodological issues need to be confronted. In particular, the problem with these sociological theories of social connectedness has been twofold. They have to describe more precisely the linkages between health, social membership and psychological well-being, and secondly they need to give a more coherent account of these social relationships. If these theoretical problems can be addressed, then social capital theory can make an important contribution to the sociological understanding of health and illness. In this article, my intention is to outline the development and claims of social capital theory, and to show the dependence of recent work on the legacy of Durkheim's sociology.

Citizenship : critical concepts

Abstract: Volume One Section 1: Theoretical Debates Section 2: The Classics Section 3: Historical Origins Volume two Section 4: Welfare and Citizenship (UK) Section 5: Ethnicity and Citizenship (USA) Section 6: State and Citizenship (Europe) Section 7: Contemporary Criticisms

The Distaste of Taste: Bourdieu, cultural capital and the Australian postwar elite

Abstract: This article explores cultural taste through a modification of Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, taste and ‘distinction’. Mainly through an in-depth, qualitative study of members of Australia’...

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.