Sociology for Human Rights: Approaches for Applying Theories and Methods - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0367257556 ISBN 13: 9780367257552

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

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This selection of chapters reveals the origins of the sociological study of human rights as well as the emerging techniques that will push the discipline and expand its understanding of human rights and so many other aspects of the social condition.

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David L. Brunsma is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. His areas of research include sociologies of human rights and human rights sociologies; racial identity and racism; cognitive sociology and epistemologies; and multiraciality and whiteness. He is currently founding co-editor of the journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, a former co-editor of Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences, and section editor of the Race and Ethnicity section of Sociology Compass. He lives and loves with his family in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Keri E. Iyall Smith's research explores the intersections between human rights, the state, and indigenous peoples. She is author of The State and Indigenous Movements (2006), editor of Sociology of Globalization (2012), and co-editor of several books, including Public Sociologies Reader (with Judith R. Blau, 2006) and Human Rights Of, By, and For the People (with Judith R. Blau and Louis E. Esparza, 2017). She is Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where she teaches courses on globalization, sociological theory, indigenous peoples, and introductory sociology. She is a former vice president of Sociologists without Borders.

Brian K. Gran is a sociologist and lawyer whose research, teaching, and service revolve around law, human rights, and social policy. Gran has recently enjoyed invitations to give lectures to Seoul National University, Sungkyunkwan University, COST Action IS1409, and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. He edits Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences and has been invited to serve on the inaugural advisory board of the Sociology Action Network. He was a British Academy Visiting Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar to Iceland. Gran is one of fourteen members of the US National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367257556
• ISBN 13: 9780367257552
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
• Herausgeber: Brunsma David, Iyall Smith Keri, Gran Brian
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