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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791220903321

Titolo

Sociology and human rights [[electronic resource] ] : a Bill of Rights for the twenty-first century / / Judith Blau, Mark Frezzo, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : Pine Forge, c2012

ISBN

1-4522-3859-6

1-4833-4912-8

1-4522-2438-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 295 p.) : ill

Collana

Sociology for a new century

Altri autori (Persone)

BlauJudith R. <1942->

FrezzoMark

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Human rights

Social justice

Globalization - Social aspects

Constitutional amendments - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What are universal human rights? -- Introduction / Mark Frezzo -- Deepening civil and political rights / Mark Frezzo -- Ensuring economic and social rights / Louis Edgar Esparza -- Promoting cultural rights / Laura Toussaint -- Globalizing the human rights perspective / Bruce K. Friesen -- Cooperating around environmental rights / Rebecca Clausen -- Comparing constitutions / Judith Blau -- Citizenship, identity, and human rights -- Arizona's SB 1070 : setting conditions for violations of human rights here and beyond / Rogelio Saenz, Cecilia Menjivar, San Juanita Edilia Garcia -- Beyond two identities : Turkish immigrants in Germany / Tugrul Keskin -- Vulnerability and human rights -- The rights of age : on human vulnerability / Bryan S. Turner -- Children's rights / Brian Gran and Rachel Bryant -- The global and the local -- Growing and learning human rights / Judith Blau -- Going forward / Judith Blau.

Sommario/riassunto

This anthology examines the implications that human rights have for the social sciences. It discusses how the 1789 Bill of Rights of the US Constitution should be expanded to encompass fundamental human



rights, as most other constitutions already have been.