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Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective, Second Edition evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean, along with a sociological exploration of power and inequality to explain why human rights are so often violated or left ignored and unfulfilled in the United States.
In each chapter, the book offers numerous policy alternatives that could provide a pathway toward the increased fulfillment of rights, while also stressing the important role that nonviolent social movements have had, and must have in the future, in achieving greater justice, dignity, wellbeing, and environmental protection in our society. This edition includes several new chapters on topics of major interest to students, including:
the human right to health
climate change and human rights
immigration and human rights violations in U.S. society
a new discussion of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Social Problems gives social science students a new way to understand pressing social issues that exist in their own communities.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction to the Human Rights Perspective
2. Rights to Wellbeing and Property in an Unequal Society
3. American Inequality and Rights to Speech and Democracy
4. Racism and the Human Right to be Treated Equally Before the Law
5. Violations of Women’s and LGBTQ Rights in U.S. Society
6. The Human Right to Health and the Toxic Politics of Expendability
7. Carbon Pollution, Climate Change, and Human Rights
8. U.S. Immigration Policy and Violations of Human Rights
9. U.S. Society, Global Inequalities, and Human Rights
10. Volunteerism, Activism, and the Pursuit of Human Rights in an Uncertain Future
Glossary
Appendix: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Info autore
Eric Bonds is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Mary Washington, a small public school in Virginia. Bonds studies and teaches about inequality, violence, environmental problems, and human rights. He also remains active in his community through garden projects and climate change activism.
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Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective 2nd Ed. evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean and a sociological exploration of power and inequality to explain why human rights are so often violated or left unfilled in the United States.
