age ~56
from Charleston, SC
Author
Bryan Turner
ISBN #
0393975053
Author
Bryan Turner
ISBN #
0631154078
Author
Bryan Turner
ISBN #
0742517063
Author
Bryan Turner
ISBN #
0865427437
In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human rights have become a central focus of research in the social sciences, embracing distinctive analytical and empirical ag...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
216
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
0415534194
EAN Code
9780415534192
ISBN #
20
Talcott Parsons Today offers a reappraisal―and extension―of the work of the most significant and influential twentieth-century sociologist. The volume consists of original essays by prominent Parsons scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany. Finally, and mo...
Author
Javier A. Trevino
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN #
0742509583
EAN Code
9780742509580
ISBN #
18
Talcott Parsons has been one of the most influential American sociologists of the postwar period. Bryan Turner's selections from Parsons' work provide a comprehensive overview of his principal contributions and are grouped under the following subdivisions: religion and modern society; life, sex, and...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
372
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN #
1557865442
EAN Code
9781557865441
ISBN #
17
This edited volume offers a collection of papers that present a comparative analysis of the development of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities, such as America, Australia, Germany, and Italy, as well as countries with Muslim majorities, such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Tunisia.The S...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
328
Publisher
Springer
ISBN #
3319347608
EAN Code
9783319347608
ISBN #
16
The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of th...
Author
Bryan S. Turner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Penn State University Press
ISBN #
0271029234
EAN Code
9780271029238
ISBN #
12
Bryan Turners stories of his youth growing up in rural 1930's Boundary County, Idaho set the stage for the man he became. He was the second child in a homesteading family of 7, and in TURNER HILL he has done a superb job of relating the memories of his past. The content is both factual and enjoyable...
Author
Bryan Turner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
212
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1508471541
EAN Code
9781508471547
ISBN #
11
This is a fully revised edition of a book that may fairly claim to have re-opened the sociology of the body as a legitimate area of enquiry. The book provides an unparalleled guide to all aspects of the sociology of the body. Each chapter has been revised and updated and the book contains new materi...
Author
Bryan S. Turner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
296
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
ISBN #
1412929873
EAN Code
9781412929875
ISBN #
2
Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicul...
Author
Bryan S. Turner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
374
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521675324
EAN Code
9780521675321
ISBN #
1
Bryan Stanley Turner is a British and Australian sociologist (dual citizenship). He was born in January 1945 to working class parents in Birmingham, England.
ISBN #
1