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Citizenship and Social Theory

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This volume explores the nature of citizenship in contemporary society, and theories about citizenship in the social sciences. Going beyond both traditional and liberal theories of democracies and Marxist theories of civil society, international scholars rethink the relationship between the individual and the state, community and family. They assess how social and political participation is changing in the modern world. The authors investigate the historical roots of citizenship, and its development alongside the national state and urban society. They relate it to issues of welfare and of the market and look at the implications of citizenship for problems of belonging, identity and personality. The final chapter asks whether the subordination of nation states to supranational institutions will replace state citizenship with a global conception of human rights. This interdisciplinary assessment should be of interest to lecturers and students in sociology, political science, political philosophy and social policy.
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.
Contemporary Problems in the Theory of Citizenship - Bryan S Turner Citizenship in the Modern West - Barry Hindess Citizenship, Class Inequality and Resentment - J M Barbalet Citizenship in a Liberal Society - Peter Saunders Cultural Foundations of Modern Citizenship - Stephen Kalberg Psychology and Citizenship - John Shotter Identity and Belonging The Fragile Ethical Vision of Civil Society - Adam B Seligman Outline of the Theory of Human Rights - Bryan S Turner
`An interesting collection of essays which examine the relevance of the concept of citizenship for the current debates in social and political theory' - Political Studies
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