Human Rights Violation in Turkey

Human Rights Violation in Turkey

Human Rights Violation in Turkey Rethinking Sociological Perspectives David Straw University of Manchester, UK

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For my Mother and Father

Contents Acknowledgements Note on Citations viii ix Introduction 1 1 The Sociological Portrayal in Context 14 2 The Emergence of Human Rights 37 3 A Theory of Human Rights 59 4 Transition to Equality 82 5 Responsibility 104 6 Resolution 125 7 Preservation 144 Conclusion 159 Notes 174 Bibliography 178 Index 188 vii

Acknowledgements My first debt of gratitude goes to Jack Barbalet, Barbara Misztal and Ipek Demir of the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester, who supervised the PhD on which this book is based. Of equal importance, in this first debt of gratitude, has been the support of Tim Jacoby of the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at the University of Manchester, who helped to secure the Visiting Fellowship under which I was able to see this book through to publication. I wish to thank Philippa Grand at Palgrave Macmillan for suggesting the title of this book and, with the assistance of her colleague, Andrew James, for guiding me through the preparation of this manuscript. I am also indebted to the helpful comments from Palgrave MacMillan s two anonymous reviewers. Finally, on a more personal level, I must thank my family for their unwavering support and my friends from my years of living and working in Istanbul, who still do more than they know to help improve my Turkish. David Straw Manchester, July 2012 viii

Note on Citations In the main text and in the bibliography of this book, reference is sometimes made to both the work s first year of publication as well as the year of publication of the particular text used by the author. As an example, Small ([1907] 2005) refers to Albion Small s Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences, which was first published in 1907. ix