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| Autore: |
Woodiwiss Anthony
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| Titolo: |
Human rights / / Anthony Woodiwiss
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Routledge, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvii, 174 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 323 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human rights |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-168) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Rights and power -- Making rights -- The paradox of human rights -- Towards a sociology of rights -- From rights to liberty in England and the United States -- The comparative sociology of rights regimes -- From liberty to the 'rule of (property) law' in the United States -- Japan, the rule of law and the absence of liberty -- Righting the world? -- The United States and the invention of human rights -- The Warren Court: setting the international human rights agenda -- The United Nations and the internationalisation of American rights discourse -- Making an example of Japan -- The desire for equality and the emergence of a sociology for human rights -- Conclusion: for a new universalism. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Anthony Woodiwiss provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Human rights |
| ISBN: | 9781134236633 |
| 1134236638 | |
| 9781280150708 | |
| 128015070X | |
| 9780203008591 | |
| 0203008596 | |
| 9780203008596 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910969874803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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