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Social Sciences and Humanities
Australia
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
90
Citations
43719
World Ranking
191
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Bryan S. Turner is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia. Their research primarily spans Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Education, Gender Studies, and Religious Studies.

The main topics addressed by their work include:

  • Islamic Studies and History
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Education and Islamic Studies
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

Turner has contributed to several publication venues over their career, notably:

  • Journal of Classical Sociology
  • Theory Culture & Society
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Critical Research on Religion
  • International Journal of Politics Culture and Society

Recent papers authored by Bryan S. Turner include:

  • Book Review: Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran: A Socio-Legal Analysis Sajjad AdeliyanTousRichardsonJames T., Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran: A Socio-Legal Analysis. Cambridge Elements. New Religious Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 9781009460101, pp. + 80, hbk $20.00 USD. (2025, Critical Research on Religion)
  • Vulnerability and existence theory in catastrophic times (2021, Journal of Classical Sociology)
  • Marshall and Dahrendorf: theories of citizenship 1945-2022 (2022, Citizenship Studies)

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Turner include:

  • Zheng Yangwen
  • James T. Richardson
  • Pam Nilan
  • Josh Roose
  • Mario Peucker

In addition to journal articles, Bryan S. Turner has published books through various academic publishers. These publications include:

  • Understanding Islam, published twice by Edinburgh University Press in 2022 and 2023
  • The Body in Asia, published by Berghahn Books in 2022
  • Guide to Mobility for Livable Pacific Cities: Part 2, published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks in 2024

Best Publications

  • The body and society :explorations in social theory

    Bryan Stanley Turner

  • The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology

    Nicholas Abercrombie;Stephen Hill;Bryan S Turner

  • Medical power and social knowledge

    Bryan S. Turner

  • The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory

    Mike Featherstone;Mike Hepworth;Bryan S. Turner

  • Religion and social theory

    Bryan S. Turner

  • Handbook of Citizenship Studies

    Engin F. Isin;Bryan S. Turner

  • Outline of a Theory of Citizenship

    Bryan S. Turner

  • Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology

    Bryan S Turner

  • The dominant ideology thesis

    Nicholas Abercrombie;Stephen Hill;Bryan Stanley Turner

  • Outline of a Theory of Generations

    Ron Eyerman;Bryan S. Turner

  • Citizenship and social theory

    Bryan S. Turner

  • Modernity and Self-Identity, Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

    Bryan S. Turner;Anthony Giddens

  • The erosion of citizenship

    Bryan S. Turner

  • Investigating Citizenship: an agenda for citizenship studies

    Engin F. Isin;Bryan S. Turner

  • The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory

    Bryan S. Turner

  • Global generations: social change in the twentieth century.

    June Edmunds;Bryan S. Turner

  • Outline of a Theory of Human Rights

    Bryan S. Turner

  • Vulnerability And Human Rights

    Bryan Stanley Turner

  • Orientalism, postmodernism, and globalism

    Bryan S. Turner

  • The McDonaldization of Society

    Bryan S. Turner;George Ritzer

  • The Dominant Ideology Thesis

    Nicholas Abercrombie;Bryan S. Turner

  • Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, by Edward W. Said. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981, 186 pp. $10.95 (Softcover $3.95)

    Bryan S. Turner

  • The Dominant Ideology Thesis.

    Dennis McGrath;Nicholas Abercrombie;Stephen Hill;Bryan S. Turner

  • Body and society

    Bryan S Turner

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Featherstone
Mike Featherstone Goldsmiths University of London
Clare Williams
Clare Williams Brunel University London
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens London School of Economics and Political Science
Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons Harvard University
Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg Cornell University
Craig Calhoun
Craig Calhoun Arizona State University
Chris Phillipson
Chris Phillipson University of Manchester
George Ritzer
George Ritzer University of Maryland, College Park
Ernest Gellner
Ernest Gellner London School of Economics and Political Science
David W. Hopkins
David W. Hopkins Scotland's Rural College

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