Citizenship and social theory

• Other Authors: Turner, Bryan S.
• Format: Unknown
• Published: London SAGE Pub 1993
• Series: Politics and culture (London, England)
• Subjects: Citizenship; Civil society
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• Physical Description: xiv, 194 p. 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0803986114; 0803986122

Going beyond both traditional liberal theories of democracy and Marxist theories of civil society, leading international scholars rethink the relations between the individual and the state, community and family. They assess how social and political participation is changing in the modern world, investigate the historical roots of citizenship and its development alongside the nation state and urban society, and relate it to issues of welfare and the market. The final chapter asks whether the subordination of nation states to supranational institutions will replace state citizenship with a global conception of human rights.