Description: 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 ...
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"Judith Blau and Keri Iyall Smith have brought together a bracing collection of essays dealing with the mission of sociology in a neo-liberal global order. Each essay is different, yet each sets out to examine the challenges of developing a sociology that can tame our borderless capitalism and the brutalities it brings in its wake." --Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
"Blau and Smith have collected 17 papers that demonstrate ways in which sociological imagination can be applied to many of the most relevant/significant social/political issues of the period. The introduction, "A Public Sociology for Human Rights," is a continuation by Michael Burawoy of his 2004 presidential address to the American Sociological Association. The appendix is a valuable annotated guide to over 100 online resources. Blau and Smith have provided professors with an outstanding vehicle through which to stimulate and inform sociology students about the potential of the discipline. Highly recommended." --Choice Reviews "In recent years Public Sociology has emerged as one of the most vibrant projects in the discipline. If you are looking for a volume that situates such work in a global context look no further than this engaging and wide-ranging collection from leaders in the field." --Douglas Hartmann, associate professor of sociology, University of Minnesota and co-author of Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing W