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Articles 271 - 284 of 284
Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law
Without Borders: Just One Border For Human Rights, Tayefi
Without Borders: Just One Border For Human Rights, Tayefi
Societies Without Borders
The author talks about the role of sociologists in defending human rights and promoting social security around the world. He said that those transnational forces such as lawyers, artists, librarians and writers are reflective movements to crash or break the monopolistic invasion of the masters of globalization. He claims that sociologists are hand in hand with other social activists to defend academic freedom and freedom of all people.
Book Review Of Vulnerability And Human Rights, Gran
Book Review Of Vulnerability And Human Rights, Gran
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the book "Vulnerability and Human Rights," by Bryan S. Turner.
Book Review Of Public Sociologies Reader, Klayman
Book Review Of Public Sociologies Reader, Klayman
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the book "Public Sociologies Reader," edited by Judith R. Blau and Keri E. Iyall Smith.
Book Review Of Challenging Authority, Klayman
Book Review Of Challenging Authority, Klayman
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the book "Challenging Authority," by Frances Fox Piven.
Babes With Arms: International Law And Child Soldiers, Timothy Webster
Babes With Arms: International Law And Child Soldiers, Timothy Webster
Faculty Publications
This article examines advances in preventing children from participating in armed conflict. It references international human rights treaties, UN Security Council resolutions and jurisprudence from international courts to chart the course by which recruiting child soldiers became an international crime. At the same time, it calls on UN bodies – and the states that comprise them – to implement some of the many resolutions and veiled threats leveled at various groups and militias that use child soldiers.
From Scientists To Merchants: The Transformation Of The Pharmaceutical Industry And Its Impact On Health, Ugalde, Núria Homedes
From Scientists To Merchants: The Transformation Of The Pharmaceutical Industry And Its Impact On Health, Ugalde, Núria Homedes
Societies Without Borders
The number of innovative drugs reaching the market has decreased steadily during the last several years to a handful per year. At the same time, the amount of resources allocated by the pharmaceutical industries to promotion and marketing has increased at a faster pace than those allocated to research and development of new products. The paper presents the hypothesis that for the large corporations, the production of me-too drugs is more profitable than to invest in research and development of innovative products. Gaining a market share of me-too drugs requires large investments in promotion and marketing, one result of which …
Global Sociology And The Nature Of Rights, Turner
Global Sociology And The Nature Of Rights, Turner
Societies Without Borders
Citizenship is fundamentally a western political and legal concept; it is also a concept relevant specifically to a national polity. By contrast human rights have been, since their formal proclamation in 1948, promoted as universal rights. The relationship between the social rights of national citizenship and the human rights of the Declaration provides a useful case study in which to discover whether sociology can provide concepts and theories that function across conceptual boundaries and territorial borders. Furthermore, human rights discourse may prove to be the primary candidate for sociology to operate as an effective discourse of global social reality. However, …
Children As Victims Of Structural Violence, Kent
Children As Victims Of Structural Violence, Kent
Societies Without Borders
Structural violence is harm imposed by some people on others indirectly, through the social system, as they pursue their own preferences. Its effects are clear in the massive mortality of children. More than ten million children die before their fifth birthdays every single year. For most children, the immediate cause of death is a combination of malnutrition and ordinary diseases such as diarrhea, malaria, and measles. Given adequate resources, such diseases are readily managed. The limited allocation of resources to meeting children's needs is due more to the ways in which available resources are used than to the absolute shortage …
Towards A Simple Typology Of Racial Hegemony, Coates
Towards A Simple Typology Of Racial Hegemony, Coates
Societies Without Borders
Racial Hegemony, a concept developed by Omi and Winant, provides a critical tool for evaluating the modern racial state. This paper explores this tool and offers some enhancements. These enhancements, recognizing that one size does not fit all, identify different hegemonic types associated with different racial states. Implications are drawn which suggests that our efforts toward evaluating, transforming, and/or eliminating racial hegemonies are best accomplished by understanding the variations of racial hegemonies.
Empowering "Foreign Brides" And Community Through Praxis-Oriented Research, Hsia
Empowering "Foreign Brides" And Community Through Praxis-Oriented Research, Hsia
Societies Without Borders
Through the author's direct participation in the empowerment of the "foreign brides" and in a rural community, which are both stigmatized in the mainstream Taiwan society, this paper discusses the theories and methods of praxis-oriented research, and its implication to social studies. This paper illustrates how the concepts and techniques of the "theater of the oppressed" can be combined with "pedagogy of the oppressed" to break through the "culture of silence" of the oppressed, develop their critical awareness, and help the women organize themselves for social transformation. It is proposed that praxis-oriented research can achieve more sophisticated research results, because …
Human Rights And The Roles Of Social Scientists, Moncada, Judith Blau
Human Rights And The Roles Of Social Scientists, Moncada, Judith Blau
Societies Without Borders
Human rights entail an expansive conception of humans that stresses their inherent equalities, their responsibilities in democratic societies, and their rights as individuals and group members. This paper refers to the "human rights revolution," especially how it is evident in constitutions, and the relationship between human rights and public goods. Also sketched out are some of the ways that social scientists can promote human rights.
American Politics On The Edge, Aronowitz
American Politics On The Edge, Aronowitz
Societies Without Borders
Currently there are two major strategies attempting to thwart the rightward lurch of United States politics: liberals and leftists who place faith in their ability to push the Democratic party away from its current center-right orientation; and the new social movements which, disdaining electoral politics and party organization have elevated the concept of "protest and resistance" to the level of a principle and social strategy. This article argues that we desperately need a discussion about the possibility and justification for the formation of a new radical party which combines the best of the electoral and extra electoral experiences of progressive …
An American Dilemma Of The 21st Century?, Wallerstein
An American Dilemma Of The 21st Century?, Wallerstein
Societies Without Borders
In 1941, Henry Luce proclaimed the twentieth century the American Century. And in 1944, Gunnar Myrdal wrote of the American dilemma, the discrepancy between its values and the actual treatment of Black Americans. In the post-1945 period, the need of a hegemonic United States to project a positive world image led to major improvements in the position of Black Americans – an improvement however primarily for educated elites and much less for the Black working-class strata. In the period since 1970, U.S. power has been on the decline, which has caused increased internal tensions in the U.S. This intersects with …
Human Rights Dialogues, Sahle, Ollen Mwalubunju
Human Rights Dialogues, Sahle, Ollen Mwalubunju
Societies Without Borders
In this conversation Ollen Mwalubunju discusses the politics of exile, the rise of Malawi's popular movement in the early 1990s and its legacies. Further, Mwalubunju discusses at length the struggle by civil society groups to deepen the democratic space that has emerged since the demise of the postcolonial authoritarian regime in 1994. Finally, Mwalubunju reflects on the tensions and complexity of his work as a social activist and the difficulties of promoting the respect and protection of human rights in the current global political and economic conjuncture. This conversation took place in January 2006.