Making Human Rights Intelligible

Towards a Sociology of Human Rights

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19909401
AutoresGert Verschraegen (0000-0002-8638-1566, Environmental Law Institute), Mikael Rask (0000-0002-5719-7102), Mikael Rask Madsen (0000-0002-1473-6727)
Año2013
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaMaking Human Rights Intelligible (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialHart Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781472566461
OpenAlexW579445333
Open LibraryOL26187247M
ISBN9781472566461
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

Human rights have become a defining feature of contemporary society, permeating public discourse on politics, law and culture. But why did human rights emerge as a key social force in our time and what is the relationship between rights and the structures of both national and international society? By highlighting the institutional and socio-cultural context of human rights, this timely and thought-provoking collection provides illuminating insights into the emergence and contemporary societal significance of human rights. Drawn from both sides of the Atlantic and adhering to refreshingly different theoretical orientations, the contributors to this volume show how sociology can develop our understanding of human rights and how the emergence of human rights relates to classical sociological questions such as social change, modernisation or state formation. Making Human Rights Intelligible provides an important sociological account of the development of international human rights. It will be of interest to human rights scholars

Context (archaeology) · Environmental ethics · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Law and economics · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Congresses · Sociological jurisprudence