Interpreting Human Rights: Social Science Perspectives

by Bryan S. Turner and Morgan Rhiannon

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 agendas for the study of rights. This volume gathers together original social-scientific research on human rights, and in doing so situates them in an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415486157
• ISBN13: 9780415486156
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"