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Public Sociologies Reader [electronic resource].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (587 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461641513 (electronic bk.)
  • 1461641519 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Public Sociologies Reader.DDC classification:
  • 303.482
LOC classification:
  • HM585 .P835 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 -- Introduction: A Public Sociology for Human Rights; HUMAN RIGHTS: WHOSE RIGHTS? WHICH RIGHTS?; THREE WAVES OF MARKETIZATION, THREE ERAS OF SOCIOLOGY; THE EROSION OF LABOR AND SOCIAL RIGHTS; THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS; PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY BEGINS AT HOME: FEMINISM, RACISM, AND TEACHING; REENVISIONING SOCIOLOGY; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; I -- THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL; 2 -- Critical Globalization Studies; GLOBAL CAPITALISM; EXERCISING A "PREFERENTIAL OPTION" FOR THE SUBORDINATE MAJORITY OF GLOBAL SOCIETY.
SEVERAL INTERWOVEN TENETS OF A CRITICAL GLOBALIZATION STUDIESEPISTEMOLOGICAL "GROUND RULES" OF A CGS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 3 -- Cosmopolitan Citizenship; THE EROSION OF NATIONALITY; WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP?; THE TRANSFORMATION OF CITIZENSHIP; THE COSMOPOLITAN ALTERNATIVE; THE IDEA OF COSMOPOLITAN CITIZENSHIP; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 4 -- The Struggle for Global Society in a World System; FRAMING THE STRUGGLE; MOBILIZING NETWORK RESOURCES; POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES; POSITIVE RELATIONAL DYNAMICS; NURTURING A GLOBAL SOCIETY WITHIN THE WORLD SYSTEM; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS5 -- A Movement Rising: Consciousness, Vision, and Strategy from the Bottom Up; A WORD ABOUT PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY FROM THE BOTTOM UP; POPULAR EDUCATION TOOLS FOR ANALYSIS AND TO GUIDE POLITICAL PRACTICE; RAISING CONSCIOUSNESS: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW MOMENT; THINK FORWARD, NOT BACKWARD: THERE ARE NO GOOD OLD DAYS; REFERENCES; In Pursuit of Justice -- Photographs by Kenneth Gould and Wall Mural by Turbado Marabou; Poetical Reflections of Social Reality; II -- THE RIGHTS OF HUMANS; 6 -- Neoliberal Globalization and the Question of Sweatshop Labor in Developing Countries.
NEOLIBERALISM AND THE RISE OF SWEATSHOP LABOR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESARE SWEATSHOPS REALLY SO BAD?; SURPLUS WORKERS IN LESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; SWEATSHOP JOBS VS. NO JOBS: NO ALTERNATIVES?; WOULD THE EXTRA REVENUES REALLY GET PASSED BACK?; WILL REVENUES ACTUALLY GET PASSED BACK?; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 7 -- Framing the Social Security Debate; FRAMING OLD AGE SECURITY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 8 -- Latin America: Capital Accumulation, Health, and the Role of International Organizations; THE INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF NEOLIBERALISM.
THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS ON HEALTHCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 9 -- Indigenous in Itself to Indigenous for Itself; INDIGENOUS; The Relational Concept; SEEKING RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ACADEMIA; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; 10 -- Migrants, Rights, and States; DIMENSIONS OF THE NEW MIGRATION; STATES AND MIGRATION; PROMOTING MIGRANT RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD; MIGRANT COURT CASES AND THEIR ADJUDICATION; THE WORLD OUT THERE: WORK ON BEHALF OF MIGRANT RIGHTS; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; III -- SUSTAINABILITY AND PEACE.
11 -- Understanding Disasters: Vulnerability, Sustainable Development, and Resiliency.
Summary: By highlighting the role of the Public Sociologist and the international conception of human rights, this volume uniquely contributes to scholarship and current debates, while it also accomplishes two other objectives: first, it will be useful in the classroom; and second, it reorganizes themes that relate to globalization from a new perspective.
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 -- Introduction: A Public Sociology for Human Rights; HUMAN RIGHTS: WHOSE RIGHTS? WHICH RIGHTS?; THREE WAVES OF MARKETIZATION, THREE ERAS OF SOCIOLOGY; THE EROSION OF LABOR AND SOCIAL RIGHTS; THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS; PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY BEGINS AT HOME: FEMINISM, RACISM, AND TEACHING; REENVISIONING SOCIOLOGY; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; I -- THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL; 2 -- Critical Globalization Studies; GLOBAL CAPITALISM; EXERCISING A "PREFERENTIAL OPTION" FOR THE SUBORDINATE MAJORITY OF GLOBAL SOCIETY.

SEVERAL INTERWOVEN TENETS OF A CRITICAL GLOBALIZATION STUDIESEPISTEMOLOGICAL "GROUND RULES" OF A CGS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 3 -- Cosmopolitan Citizenship; THE EROSION OF NATIONALITY; WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP?; THE TRANSFORMATION OF CITIZENSHIP; THE COSMOPOLITAN ALTERNATIVE; THE IDEA OF COSMOPOLITAN CITIZENSHIP; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 4 -- The Struggle for Global Society in a World System; FRAMING THE STRUGGLE; MOBILIZING NETWORK RESOURCES; POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES; POSITIVE RELATIONAL DYNAMICS; NURTURING A GLOBAL SOCIETY WITHIN THE WORLD SYSTEM; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS5 -- A Movement Rising: Consciousness, Vision, and Strategy from the Bottom Up; A WORD ABOUT PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY FROM THE BOTTOM UP; POPULAR EDUCATION TOOLS FOR ANALYSIS AND TO GUIDE POLITICAL PRACTICE; RAISING CONSCIOUSNESS: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW MOMENT; THINK FORWARD, NOT BACKWARD: THERE ARE NO GOOD OLD DAYS; REFERENCES; In Pursuit of Justice -- Photographs by Kenneth Gould and Wall Mural by Turbado Marabou; Poetical Reflections of Social Reality; II -- THE RIGHTS OF HUMANS; 6 -- Neoliberal Globalization and the Question of Sweatshop Labor in Developing Countries.

NEOLIBERALISM AND THE RISE OF SWEATSHOP LABOR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESARE SWEATSHOPS REALLY SO BAD?; SURPLUS WORKERS IN LESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; SWEATSHOP JOBS VS. NO JOBS: NO ALTERNATIVES?; WOULD THE EXTRA REVENUES REALLY GET PASSED BACK?; WILL REVENUES ACTUALLY GET PASSED BACK?; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 7 -- Framing the Social Security Debate; FRAMING OLD AGE SECURITY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 8 -- Latin America: Capital Accumulation, Health, and the Role of International Organizations; THE INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF NEOLIBERALISM.

THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS ON HEALTHCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 9 -- Indigenous in Itself to Indigenous for Itself; INDIGENOUS; The Relational Concept; SEEKING RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ACADEMIA; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; 10 -- Migrants, Rights, and States; DIMENSIONS OF THE NEW MIGRATION; STATES AND MIGRATION; PROMOTING MIGRANT RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD; MIGRANT COURT CASES AND THEIR ADJUDICATION; THE WORLD OUT THERE: WORK ON BEHALF OF MIGRANT RIGHTS; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; III -- SUSTAINABILITY AND PEACE.

11 -- Understanding Disasters: Vulnerability, Sustainable Development, and Resiliency.

By highlighting the role of the Public Sociologist and the international conception of human rights, this volume uniquely contributes to scholarship and current debates, while it also accomplishes two other objectives: first, it will be useful in the classroom; and second, it reorganizes themes that relate to globalization from a new perspective.

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