Bryan Turner

The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness

Nietzsche's Dance: Resentment, Reciprocity and Resistance in Social Life

Fire on the Rim: The Cultural Dynamics of East/West Power Politics

Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics

Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics

Equality

Equality

Chromatin and Gene Regulation: Mechanisms in Epigenetics

Interpreting Human Rights: Social Science Perspectives (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

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...

Talcott Parsons Today: His Theory and Legacy in Contemporary Sociology

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...

The Talcott Parsons Reader

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...

The Sociology of Shari'a: Case Studies from around the World (Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies)

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...

Vulnerability and Human Rights (Essays on Human Rights)

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...

Turner Hill

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...

The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

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...

Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

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...

Bryan S. Turner

Bryan Stanley Turner is a British and Australian sociologist (dual citizenship). He was born in January 1945 to working class parents in Birmingham, England.