Citizenship and Capitalism: The Debate over Reformism (Controversies in Sociology) - Softcover

Turner, Bryan S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0043012426 ISBN 13: 9780043012420

Publisher: Unwin Hyman, 1986

Synopsis

First published in 1986, this study explores the development of citizenship as a way of demonstrating the effective use of political institutions to advance group interests. Bryan Turner rejects Marxist criticisms of reformism to illustrate that ‘subordinate’ groups can achieve significant advances in social and economic rights, and that democracy is a necessary mechanism for the pursuit of interests. This historical and sociological analysis raises fundamental questions about the nature of legal personality, individualism and identity in modern societies, and will be of wide interest to students of politics, sociology, and social philosophy.

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About the Author:

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Unwin Hyman
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0043012426
• ISBN 13: 9780043012420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172