Human Rights Violation in Turkey: Rethinking Sociological Perspectives

by David Straw

Book Overview

Sociological theory has veered between an insistence on understanding human rights as a genuine universal morality and far more cynical portrayals of human rights as a veil of bourgeois capitalist enterprise. This book criticizes, adapts and combines seemingly disparate elements of contemporary sociological theory within a new approach to human rights. The practicality of the approach is clearly demonstrated in its application to one of the most important,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349347094
• ISBN13: 9781349347094
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"