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.

Marginal politics, cultural identities and the clergy in scotland

Abstract: It is now fashionable to suggest that the Celtic regions of the United Kingdom are the internal colonies of the central English state and that they have been, particularly since the rapid industrialization of the nineteenth century, subject to a penetrating anglicization of their culture and institutions. In terms of the internal colonialism thesis, it can be argued that the cultural nationalism of Scotland which was developed in the nineteenth century was an attempt to maintain the distinctiveness of civil society in Scotland in the context of massive regional economic imbalance. The Scottish intelligentsia, dominated by Edinburgh lawyers and Presbyterian ministers, can thus be compared with the intelligentsia of Third World societies undergoing a process of de‐colonization where separate cultural identities have to be preserved or, if necessary, constructed.

Citizens, communities and conflict: surviving globalization

Abstract: With the financial crisis and the credit crunch becoming fully apparent in the second half of 2008, authors and publishers face an obvious but interesting dilemma. Any optimistic analysis of the gl...

Patriarchy and Anorexia Nervosa: a Reply to Jan Horsfall

Abstract: In my note on anorexia, I tried to do a number of things: to review the literature on anorexia, to pay tribute to the clinical work of Hilda Bruch, to suggest that we can conceptualise becoming sick as an entry into a language community and specifically to advance the argument that we can regard anorexia ’as an over-determined disease, being the consequence of cultural, social, familial and maturational processes which create &dquo;sick roles&dquo; for anorexic candidates’ (Turner, 1990a, 166). My theoretical proposal was to examine anorexia (and in fact any disease) at three levels: the phenomenological, the social and the societal. I would now argue in more general terms that the complexity of the sociology of disease categories requires ’epistemological pragmatism’ in which a variety of approaches in theory and methods is appropriate, depending on the questions being asked (Turner, 1987, 5). Thus, rather than being forced to select foundationalist or anti-foundationalist perspectives on the question of the social construction of disease, our orientation should depend on the character of the problem at hand. For example, Walter Laqueur (1990), in studying how the discursive representation of sex and gender is an effect of power, is obviously not concerned with the phenomenology of sex, whereas for Drew Leder (1990) the phenomenology of body experience is the centre of his project; by contrast, Emily Martin (1989) is concerned with both the cultural representation of the body and the sociology of the sexual division of labour in human reproduction. The approach depends in part on the nature of the question.

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.