S Turner: 70 books
Boys Will Be Boys
The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton et al.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
E.S. Turner's first book, published in 1948, is a wholly original, richly researched and uncommonly insightful study of a somewhat disreputable genre: the 'Boys' Weekly' papers commonly known as 'penny dreadfuls.''A classic of its kind... [Turner] ploughed through back numbers of the old blood-and-thunder...
The Search for a Methodology of Social Science
Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of the facts of such behavior through statistical inquiry. The disputes were vigorously argued; they were...
by Bryan S. Turner, Robert J. Holton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – issues of sickness and health, power and inequality, the nature of capitalism and its possible alternatives. They develop a mature and original perspective...
What the Butler Saw
Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
'A book which goes on a special shelf in my library.' P.G. WodehouseWhat the Butler Saw (1962) is one of E.S. Turner's most pertinent and illuminating 'social histories', an exploration of the 'upstairs/downstairs' relationship across three centuries of English life. Drawing on literature,...
by E. S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
'So the recruiters, rolling up their sleeves, varied the appeal to pride, honour, manliness and vengeance with warnings to eschew shame, disgrace, betrayal, sloth and cowardice. From a poster showing the ruins of Belgium a woman asked, 'Will you go or must I?'' First published in 1980, Dear...
by Professor Bryan S Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
It is often thought that the development of capitalism and the modernization of culture have brought about a profound decline of religious belief and commitment. The history of Christianity in the last two decades appears to be a good illustration of this general process of secularization with the...
The Corporate Commonwealth
Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value.
Henry S. Turner uses the...
by E. S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
One of the strangest periods in the social history of Britain was that of the Phoney War of 1939-40, when the nation did not know quite whether it was at war or peace. E.S. Turner's marvellous study, first published in 1961, offers a none-too-reverent account of how Britons tried to adjust themselves...
by Robert S. Turner M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Afterthoughts describes rural life and beekeeping in Iowa, before the author was a medical student at the State University of Iowa. Turner traveled as a Pfizer medical student representative in the 1952 summertime, before working on an acute poliomyelitis ward later that summer. A blind date with...
by Bryan S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature...
Regulating Bodies
Essays in Medical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
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.
The Body and Society
Explorations in Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
"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 needs to be considered in its own right within courses on the sociology of the body."
- Dr Robert Meadows, Surrey University
"Remains...
by Bryan S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
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,...
Citizenship and Capitalism (RLE Social Theory)
The Debate over Reformism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
In this study of politics in capitalist society Bryan Turner explores the development of citizenship as a way of demonstrating the effective use of political institutions by the working class and other subordinate groups to promote their interests. Marxist criticisms of reformism are rejected; it...