Author: Bryan S. Turner

'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – ...

Society and Culture reclaims the classical heritage, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the promise of sociology in the 21st century and asks whet...

Society and Culture reclaims the classical heritage, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the promise of sociology in the 21st century and asks whet...

In this study of politics in capitalist society Bryan Turner explores the development of citizenship as a way of demonstrating the effective use of...

In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies. The...

As a radical critique of theoretical sociological orthodoxy, The Dominant Ideology Thesis has generated controversy since first publication. It has...

In recent years there has been growing debate among sociologists about the concept of class and its relevance to the highly industrialised world of...

‘Can We Live Forever?’ addresses the modern debate about the Life Extension Project, the by-product of revolutionary developments (actual and predi...

This volume contributes to the modern study of Islam and provides a full-length review of Weber's sociology of Islam. It examines modern scholarshi...

The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism...

The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner’s publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecti...

Singapore, like many other advanced economies, has a relatively low, and declining, birth-rate. One consequence of this, and a consequence also of ...

The second edition of this major book on the social analysis of religion incorporates a substantial new introduction by Bryan S Turner. Religion an...

In this book, one of the foremost sociologists of the present day, turns his gaze upon the key figures and seminal institutions in the rise of soci...

In this book, one of the foremost sociologists of the present day, turns his gaze upon the key figures and seminal institutions in the rise of soci...

In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis, the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of mode...

In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis, the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of mode...

As a radical critique of theoretical sociological orthodoxy, The Dominant Ideology Thesis has generated controversy since first publication. It has...

'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – ...

"This truly deserves to be considered a classic and I strongly encourage my students to read it from cover to cover. Turner′s work on the body need...

"This truly deserves to be considered a classic and I strongly encourage my students to read it from cover to cover. Turner′s work on the body need...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the b...