Citizenship And Capitalism (Rle Social Theory): The Debate Over Reformism (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)

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 is shown that subordinate groups can achieve significant advances in social and economic rights, and that democracy is not a sham but a necessary mechanism for the pursuit of interests.

• • Author: Bryan S. Turner
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Aug 04, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 168 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138786977
• • ISBN-13: 9781138786974