1st Edition
Sociology for Human Rights Approaches for Applying Theories and Methods
David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith and Brian K. Gran
2. Methodology
Amir B. Marvasti and Karyn D. McKinney
3. Mathematical Sociology
Guillermina Jasso
4. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Peter Eglin
5. Comparative and Historical Sociology
Jean H. Quartaert and Benita Roth
6. Political Economy of the World-System
Tarique Niazi and Jeremy Hein
7. Social Psychology
Steven Hitlin and Matthew Andersson
8. Sociological Practice and Public Sociology
Jan Marie Fritz
9. Teaching and Learning
Corey Dolgon
10. History of Sociology
J. I. (Hans) Bakker
11. Theory
Elizabeth A. Gill
12. Emotions
Ann Branaman
13. Marxist Sociology
David Fasenfest
Discussion Questions
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Biography
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.
