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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- INTODUCTION THE 'CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS' AND THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- PART ONE AGAINST ABSOLUTISM AND RELATIVISM: TOWARDS A GLOBALLY ENFORCEABLE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- 1. TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY, SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF GOVERNANCE -- DURKHEIM, MAUSS AND THE INDEXICAL NATURE OF LAW -- GLOBALISATION AND ITS CHALLENGE TO SOCIOLOGY -- TOWARDS A THEORY OF TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY -- THE PRIMACY OF THE TRANSNATIONAL -- THE FORMS OF GLOBALISATION -- THE NATION STATE, SPACE AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY -- CLASS AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY -- LAW, RIGHTS AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITY -- A POSITIVIST AND DISAGGREGATED CONCEPT OF RIGHTS -- CONCLUSION -- 2. THE CHALLENGER OF PACIFIC CAPITALISM: FROM PAX AMERICANA TO THE JAPANESE WAY? -- THE SPECIFICITY OF PACIFIC CAPITALISM -- AMERICAN POSTMODERNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INCREDULITY ALONG THE PACIFIC RIM -- POSTMODERNITY AND LABOUR RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES -- JAPAN, PATRIARCHALISM AND THE RULE OF LAW -- THE PASSING OF MODERNISM AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF LABOUR RIGHTS IN JAPAN -- CONSTRUCTING A DISCOURSE ON LABOUR FOR PACIFIC CAPITALISM -- CONCLUSION: AUTHORITARIAN FAMILIALISM OR ENFORCEABLE BENEVOLENCE? -- PART TWO HUMAN RIGHTS, LABOUR LAW AND PATRIARCHALISM IN PACIFIC ASIA -- 3. THE PHILIPPINES AND MENDICANT PATRIARCHALISM -- THE FORMATION OF A PATRIARCHALIST POLITICS -- THE MAKING OF A DEPENDENT ECONOMY -- THE MAKING OF A MENDICANT PATRIARCHALISM -- THE INSTITUTIONS OF MENDICANT PATRIARCHALISM AND THE CLASS STRUCTURE -- MENDICANT PATRIARCHALIST SOCIETY, THE LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- THE LABOUR LAW OF MENDICANT PATRIARCHALISM -- TOWARDS A FILIPINO SYSTEM OF LABOUR LAW: COMPULSORY ARBITRATION -- RETREAT FROM THE FILIPINO WAY: THE ARRIVAL OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Social theory is central to the disciplines of sociology, cultural studies, criminology, and media studies. Treating theory as a variety of visual work, and with the help of diagrams and quotations, this book provides an introduction to different ways of practicing social theory. It is for students and researchers in sociology and related fields

Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Anthony Woodiwiss provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of.

"This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights, and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many people's lives and a central concern of sociology." "The principal aims of this study are to identify the aspects of established human rights practice that make the global enforcement of human rights as they relate to labour currently so problematic and to propose practical solutions to these problems. It evaluates developments within human rights discourse in the UN, the WTO and a diverse array of countries, including the UK, the US, China, France, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore."

This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many peoples lives and a central concern of sociology

Anthony Woodiwiss's pathbreaking book was the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights. In it, he takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse and argues against human rights issues being the major obstacle to East-West co-operation. Dr Woodiwiss's sociological and post-structuralist approach to the concept of rights, and his incorporation of the transnational dimension into sociological theory, enable him to demonstrate how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchalism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls 'enforceable benevolence'. His studies of Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore highlight similarities between Pacific-Asian and Western societies and offer a positive view of the social forces obtaining in these territories

What happens to human rights discourse in Asia will be of critical importance to the future of the whole human rights project. There are at least three possible scenarios: acceptance, rejection and transformation. Majority western opinion hopes for the first but expects the second. This article argues for the third, transformation. Central to the argument is the construction of an ideal type – enforceable benevolence – of a distinctively Asian human rights regime. Although this ideal type has been constructed on the basis of a consideration of Asian thought and practice, it has yet to be fully realized anywhere. In the meantime it represents a sociologically appropriate standard against which to judge the progress or not of Asian societies towards the realization of what I argue is their own vision of human dignity.