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1. The Politics of Expertise

   By Stephen Turner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The problem of expertise is an important topic in contemporary science studies and increasingly important in philosophy, political studies, and sociology. Drawing on a global range of case studies, this volume provides an alternative to the developing standard interpretations of the...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding the Tacit

   By Stephen Turner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This volume explores the issue of tacit knowledge, showing how a topic that is central to cognitive science is relevant in important ways to science studies, social theory, and politics....

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. A Global Environmental Right

   By Stephen J. Turner

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global...

   To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory

   Edited by Gerard Delanty, Stephen P. Turner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and...

   To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value

   By Stephen P. Turner, Regis A. Factor

   The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate. In this book, Turner and Factor consider the development of the dispute over Max Weber's...

   Published March 8th 2009 by Routledge
6. Rights Resources and Rural Development

   Community-based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa

   Edited by Christo Fabricius, Eddie Koch, Stephen Turner, Hector Magome

   Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and other resources; and empowering communities to manage these resources sustainably. Recently, however...

   Published April 30th 2004 by Routledge
7. Max Weber

   The Lawyer as Social Thinker

   By Stephen P. Turner

   This book is the first account of the way in which Weber appropriated and modified sources in the legal tradition, in which he was trained, to construct his sociology. It leads directly to a new understanding of Weber's intent and his relations to the tradition of social and political theory. the...

   Published September 21st 1994 by Routledge
8. Emile Durkheim

   Sociologist and Moralist

   Edited by Stephen Turner

   International scholarship over the last twenty years has produced a new understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. It has contributed to reassembling what, for Durkheim, was always a whole: a sociological selection on morals and moral activism. This volume presents an overview of Durkheim's...

   Published June 30th 1993 by Routledge
9. Sociology Responds to Fascism

   Edited by Dirk Kasler, Stephen Turner

   We know a lot about the sociology of fascism, but how have sociologists responded to fascism when confronted with it in their own lives? How courageous or compromising have they been? And why has this history been shrouded in silence for so long? In this major work of historical scholarship...

   Published August 26th 1992 by Routledge