Without doubt, Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important figures currently working in the area of sociology an dcultural studies, but his writings infuriate as many people as they intoxcicate. This collection provides a wide-ranging, measured assessment of Baudrillard's work. The contributors examine Baudrillard's relation to consumption, modernity, postmodernity, social theory, feminism, politics and culture. They attempt to steer a clear course between the hype which Baudrillard himself has done much to generate, and the solid value of his startling thoughts. Baudrillard's ideas and style of expression provide a challenge to established academic ways of proceeding and thinking. The book explores this challenge and speculates on the reason for the extreme responses to Baudrillard's work. The appeal of Baudrillard's arguments is clearly discussed and his place in contemporary social theory is shrewdly assessed. Baudrillard emerges as a chameleon figure, but one who is obsessed with the central themes of style, hypocrisy, seduction, simulation and fatality. Although these themes abound in postmodern thought, they are also evident in a certain strand of modernist thought - one which embraces the writings of Baudelaire and Nietzsche. Baudrillard's protestation is that he is not a postmodernist is taken seriously in this collection. The balanced and accessible style of the contributions and the fairness and rigour of the assessments make this book of pressing interest to students of sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.

Forget Baudrillard?

Politics & Social Sciences

Rojek, Chris

Turner, Bryan

Turner, Professor Bryan S

Sociology

Routledge

Bryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.

Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology

Social Sciences

Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tenets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate, particularly with regard to secularization and rationalization of global cultures, the crisis of Marxism, the rise of the New Right and the emergence of post-modernism. This book offers an authoritative and insightful study which brings to light, not only the contemporary relevance of Weber's social theory, but also offering a broad perspective for the analysis of social questions. 

Business & Money

Holton, Robert

Economics

Book by Stauth, Georg, Turner, Bryan

Nietzsche's Dance: Resentment, Reciprocity and Resistance in Social Life

Stauth, Georg

Blackwell Pub.

Esitlik, cagimiz toplumlarinin en tartismali ve onemli kavramlarindan biri; ancak arzulandigi olcude elde edildigini, hatta varoldugunu soylemek pek de mumkun degil. Bryan S. Turner, gunumuzde giderek artan esitlik ozlemi ile esitsizligin varligini tum yogunluguyla surdurmesi arasindaki gerilimden hareket ederek, esitlik kavramina yonelik sosyoloji kuramlarini gozden geciriyor. Bunu yaparken de, yanlizca kuramsal tartismalarla yetinmeyerek, esitligi saglamayi amaclayan somut girisimleri de inceliyor. Yapit, konuyu sosyolojik, politik ve felsefi boyutlariyla kusatiyor.

Equality

Status (Concepts Social Thought)

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Have you often struggled to understand the Olivet Discourse and its true meaning? Students of the scriptures have come up with a variety of scenarios to explain Christ’s words in this text, yet many of them still come away disillusioned. Bryan Turner will take you on a journey to link together the passages of the Olivet discourse, and connect the many Old Testament scriptures related to it. You will better understand the 70 weeks of Daniel and its impact on the discourse, as well as how Zechariah 12 -14 fits into Matthew’s account. The author offers insight into questions that may have haunted the reader, such as; “does the term ‘this generation’ refer to the people who first heard the discourse, or is it people in the future?” Many other questions are answered, and a timeline is given from Daniel’s 70 weeks in relation to the Second coming. In this decisive work, you will understand that moment that the “birth pains” of the tribulation begin, and when the Abomination of Desolation begins. You will be able to understand how the book of Revelation dovetail’s with Matthew’s discourse and this will further solidify your ability to understand eschatology. The author writes eloquently, yet pointedly so that the reader comes away with a better grasp of Christs’ Second coming, the “day and hour that no one knows.”

The Second Coming of Christ: A Closer Inspection of the Olivet Discourse passages in Matthew

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Independently published

Marx and the End of Orientalism (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1978, this title analyses a range of problems that arise in the study of North Africa and the Middle East, bridging the gap between studies of Sociology, Islam, and Marxism. Both Sociology and the study of Islam draw on an Orientalist tradition founded on an idealist epistemology, ethnocentric values and an evolutionary view of historical development. Bryan Turner challenges the basic assumptions of Orientalism by considering such issues as the social structure of Islamic society, the impact of capitalism in the Middle East, the effect of Israel on territories, revolutions, social classes and nationalism.  A detailed and fascinating study, Marx and the End of Orientalism will be of particular interest to students studying the sociology of colonialism and development, Marxist sociology and sociological theory.

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First published in 1978, this title analyses a range of problems that arise in the study of North Africa and the Middle East, bridging the gap between studies of Sociology, Islam, and Marxism. Both Sociology and the study of Islam draw on an Orientalist tradition founded on an idealist epistemology, ethnocentric values and an evolutionary view of historical development. Bryan Turner challenges the basic assumptions of Orientalism by considering such issues as the social structure of Islamic society, the impact of capitalism in the Middle East, the effect of Israel on territories, revolutions, social classes and nationalism. A detailed and fascinating study, Marx and the End of Orientalism will be of particular interest to students studying the sociology of colonialism and development, Marxist sociology and sociological theory.

The key questions about today's elites are easy to ask. How did a few spectacularly wealthy bankers and fund managers, whose magic money-tree crumbled to sawdust in 2008, get themselves bailed out with public funds that no health service or infrastructure commission could dream of? Why did democratically elected governments allow the '1%', and those at even more exquisite decimal places, to flee further enriched from a market meltdown that would traditionally have culled their 'capital'? Why, when voters in America, Europe and Asia turned against governments that had made them pay twice for corporate excess, did they rally behind dissenting members of the elite, rather than traditional anti-elitist parties? What enables the domination of politics and business by an unchosen few - skewing the distributions of power, wealth and status even further skywards - when such pyramids were meant to be flattened long ago by democratization, meritocratic selection and social mobility?
'Greedy Elites' derives answers from the latest empirical evidence on rising concentrations of economic and political power, allied to new theories of how elites maintain, apply and justify their ascent over the rest of the society. It traces contemporary turbulence to the membership and internal dynamics of elites - economic, political and social - and the way they manage their connections to the rest of society. The composition and conduct of decision-making 'higher circles' remains central to explaining how national and multilateral political arrangements remain stable for long periods, interspersed with phases of abrupt change. 'Greedy Elites' also sheds light on why the patterns of change are often common across countries that differ in strength of democracy and civil society, and why they typically raise fractions of the previous elite to greater prominence, despite mass protest aimed at bringing the whole elite down to earth. Sixty years after C. Wright Mills's pioneering probe of the Power Elite in the US, 'Greedy Elites' offers new and internationally applicable ideas on the importance of frictions within the elite in sparking and steering wider social change; the shifting relationship between power and money within elites; the alternative ways in which elite fractions enrol 'middle' and 'working' class elements in their power struggles, and the typical developmental consequences of elites alternately forming and breaking up distributional class coalitions.

The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics and Greed (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)

Edmunds, June

Shipman, Alan

Anthem Press

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Books by Turner, Bryan

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Forget Baudrillard?

Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology

Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

Nietzsche's Dance: Resentment, Reciprocity and Resistance in Social Life

Equality

Status (Concepts Social Thought)

The Second Coming of Christ: A Closer Inspection of the Olivet Discourse passages in Matthew

Marx and the End of Orientalism (Routledge Revivals)

Marx and the End of Orientalism (Routledge Revivals)

The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics and Greed (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)