Human rights / Anthony Woodiwiss.
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.
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Routledge,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: RIGHTS AND POWER; 1 The paradox of human rights; 2 Towards a sociology of rights; 3 From rights to liberty in England and the United States; 4 The comparative sociology of rights regimes; 5 From liberty to the 'rule of (property) law' in the United States; 6 Japan, the rule of law and the absence of liberty; 7 The United States and the invention of human rights; 8 The Warren Court; 9 The United Nations and the internationalisation of American rights discourse; 10 Making an example of Japan.