1st Edition
Movements for Human Rights Locally and Globally
Introduction
1 Community and Urban Sociology
Kenneth Neubeck
2 Peace, War, and Social Conflict
Nader Saiedi
3 Environment and Technology
Francis O. Adeola and J. Steven Picou
4 Population
Jenniffer Santos-Hernández
5 Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Lyndi Hewitt
6 Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco
Jennifer Bronson
7 Rationality and Society
Valeska P. Korff, Mimi Zou, Tom Zwart, and Rafael Wittek
8 International Migration
Tanya Golash-Boza
9 Labor and Labor Movements
Héctor L. Delgado
10 Evolution, Biology, and Sociology
Rosemary L. Hopcroft
Discussion Questions
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
About the Editors
Biography
David L. Brunsma is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. 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. Keri E. Iyall Smith’s research explores the intersections between human rights doctrine, the state, and indigenous peoples in the context of a globalizing society. She has published articles on hybridity and world society, human rights, indigenous peoples, and teaching sociology. Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations (with Patricia Leavy, 2008). She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Brian K. Gran is a former lawyer whose sociological research focuses on human rights and institutions that support and hinder their enforcement, with a particular interest in whether law can intervene in private spheres of the ISA Thematic Group on Human Rights and Global Justice (TG03). For his research on independent children’s rights institutions, he was a visiting fellow of the Fulbright grant to research and teach at the School of Law at Reykjavik University in Iceland.
