Social problems: a human rights perspective

Type

Book

Authors

Eric Bonds

ISBN 10

0415737125

ISBN 13

9780415737128

Tags

Reference, Sociology, Civil Rights & Liberties, Human Rights, Civil Rights

Description

This short book lays out a new definition for what constitutes a social problem: the violation of a group’s human rights, which are understood as commonly upheld standards about what people deserve and should be protected from in life. Evaluating U.S. society from an international human rights perspective, Bonds also stresses that human rights are necessarily political and can therefore never be part of a purely objective exercise to assess wellbeing in a particular society. His approach recognizes that there is no one single interpretation of what rights mean, and that different groups with differing interests are going to promote divergent views, some better than others. This book is ideal for undergraduate sociology courses on social problems, as well as courses on social justice and human rights. - from Amzon

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