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:
Social Problems gives social science students a new way to understand pressing social issues that exist in their own communities.
| ISBN: | 9781138040908 |
| Publication date: | 15th March 2021 |
| Author: | Eric Bonds |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Framing 21st Century Social Issues |
| Genres: |
Sociology Social classes Politics and government |
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:
Social Problems gives social science students a new way to understand pressing social issues that exist in their own communities.
Social Problems features in the following genres: Sociology, Social classes, Politics and government
Social Problems is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Social Problems was written by Eric Bonds and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Social Problems has 160 pages
Yes it is part of Framing 21st Century Social Issues series
£139.50