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Public Sociologies Reader

von: Judith Blau, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty, Charles A. Gallagher, Kenneth Gould, Arlette Grabczynska, Angela J. Hattery, Keri Iyall-Smith, Walda Katz-Fishman, Núria Homedes, Alberto Moncada, John Allphin Moore, Anthony M. Orum, Robert Pollin, Jerry Pubantz, Jill Quadagno, Barbara Risman, William I. Robinson, Havidán Rodríguez, Deanna Rohlinger, Carla N. Russell, Jerome Scott, Earl Smith, Jackie Smith, Antonio Ugalde
59,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	13.07.2006
ISBN/EAN:	9781461641513
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	378

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Titelbeschreibung

At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants of American sociology would have applauded the 2004 meetings of the American Sociological Association. The theme of the meetings, Public Sociology, presided over by President Michael Burawoy, sparked lively debate and continues to be a spur for research and theory, and a focal point of ongoing discussions about what sociology is and should be. This volume advances these discussions and debates, and proposes how they can be further sharpened and developed. Some authors in this volume clarify the distinctive roles that Public Sociologists can play in the discipline, in the classroom, and in larger society. Others provide critical analyses, focusing, for example, on aspects of American society and institutions, global corporate actors, sweatshop practices, international neoliberal organizations, migration policies, and U.S. environmental policies. Others advance new ways of thinking about global interdependencies that include indigenous groups, peasants, as well as societies in industrialized and developing states, and international organizations. Still others propose visions of transformative processes and practices that are progressively affirmative, even activist —- in the spirit of 'A Better World is Possible!!' This volume provides an overview of some of the major debates in sociology today and places emphasis on the importance of human rights in the 'One (globalized) World' we live in today. Authors engage these debates with spirited enthusiasm and write exceptionally clearly about those topics that may be new to American readers.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

By highlighting the role of the Public Sociologist and the international conception of human rights, this volume uniquely contributes to scholarship and current debates, while it also accomplishes two other objectives: first, it will be useful in the classroom; and second, it reorganizes themes that relate to globalization from a new perspective.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: A Public Sociology for Human Rights
 Chapter 2 The Local and the Global: Critical Globalization Studies
 Chapter 3 The Local and the Global: Cosmopolitan Citizenship
 Chapter 4 The Struggle for Global Society in a World System
 Chapter 5 A Movement Rising: Vision and Strategy from the Bottom Up
 Chapter 6 Neoliberal Globalization and the Question of Sweatshop Labor in Developing Countries or Rights
 Chapter 7 Framing Social Security Rights
 Chapter 8 Latin America: Capital Accumulation and the Role of International Organizations
 Chapter 9 Indigenous in Itself to Indigenous for Itself
 Chapter 10 Migrants, Rights, and States
 Chapter 11 Understanding Disasters: Vulnerability, Sustainable Development, and Resiliency
 Chapter 12 Promoting Sustainability
 Chapter 13 Promoting Peace through Global Governance
 Chapter 14 Ejidos: Local and Global Publics
 Chapter 15 Teaching Public Sociologies
 Chapter 16 What Does Feminism Have to Say about Public Sociology
 Chapter 17 The Challenge to Public Sociology: Neo-Liberalism's Illusion of Inclusion

Autorenportrait

Judith Blau is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Architects and Firms, The Shape of Culture, Social Contracts and Economic Markets, Race in the Schools, and is coauthor, with Alberto Moncada of Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision and Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution. She is past-president of the Southern Sociological Society and president of the U.S. chapter of Sociologists without Borders. Keri E. Iyall Smith is assistant professor of sociology at Stonehill College in Easton, MA. She teaches on the subjects of globalization, race and ethnicity, indigenous peoples, social problems, and introductory sociology. She has published articles in the fields of human rights and teaching sociology.