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1 online resource (xxii, 355 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction : a public sociology for human rights / Michael Burawoy -- The local and the global : critical globalization studies / William I. Robinson -- Cosmopolitan citizenship / Gerard Delanty -- The struggle for global society in a world system / Jackie Smith -- A movement rising : consciousness, vision, and strategy from the bottom up / Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott -- Neoliberal globalization and the question of sweatshop labor in developing countries / Robert Pollin -- Framing the social security debate / Deana Rohlinger and Jill Quadagno -- Latin America : capital accumulation and the role of international organizations / Antonio Ugalde and Núria Homedes -- Indigenous in itself to indigenous for itself / Keri E. Iyall-Smith -- Migrants, rights, and states / Anthony M. Orum and Arlette Grabczynska -- Understanding disasters : vulnerability, sustainable development, and resiliency / Havidán Rodríguez and Carla N. Russell -- Promoting sustainability / Kenneth A. Gould -- Promoting peace through global governance / Jerry Pubantz and John Allphin Moore, Jr. -- Ejidos : a utopian project / Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada -- Teaching public sociologies / Angela Hattery and Earl Smith -- Feminist strategies for public sociology / Barbara J. Risman -- The challenge to public sociology : neoliberalism's illusion of inclusion / Charles A. Gallagher |
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Annotation At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W.E.B. 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. The authors engage these debates with spirited enthusiasm and write exceptionally clearly about those topics that may be new to American readers |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Globalization.
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globalism.
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Globalization
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Sociology -- Philosophy
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Debatten.
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Politieke kwesties.
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Mensenrechten.
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Sociale verantwoordelijkheid.
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Sozialphilosophie -- Globalisierung.
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Globalisierung -- Sozialphilosophie.
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Soziologie -- Philosophie -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Blau, Judith R., 1942-
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Iyall Smith, Keri E., 1973-
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| ISBN |
9781461641513 |
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1461641519 |
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0742545873 |
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9780742545878 |
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0742545865 |
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9780742545861 |
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