Edited by renowned scholars, Judith Blau and Mark Frezzo, this groundbreaking anthology examines the implications that human rights have for the social sciences. The book provides readers with a wide-ranging collection of articles, each written by experts in their fields who argue for an expansion of fundamental human rights in the United States. To provide an international context, the Sociology and Human Rights covers the human rights treaties that have been incorporated into the constitutions of many countries throughout the world, including wealthy nations such as Spain and Sweden and impoverished countries such as Bolivia and Croatia.

Part I. What Are Universal Human Rights?
Chapter 1. Introduction - Mark Frezzo
Chapter 2. Deepening Civil and Political Rights - Mark Frezzo
Chapter 3. Ensuring Economic and Social Rights - Louis Edgar Esparza
Chapter 4. Promoting Cultural Rights - Laura Toussaint
Chapter 5. Globalizing the Human Rights Perspective - Bruce K. Friesen
Chapter 6. Cooperating Around Environmental Rights - Rebecca Clausen
Chapter 7. Comparing Constitutions - Judith Blau
Part II. Citizenship, Identity, and Human Rights
Chapter 8. Arizona's SB 1070: Setting Conditions for Violations of Human Rights Here and Beyond - 8. Rogelio Sáenz, Cecilia Menjívar, San Juanita Edilia Garcia
Chapter 9. Beyond Two Identities: Turkish Immigrants in Germany - Tugrul Keskin
Part III. Vulnerability and Human Rights
Chapter 10: The Rights of Age: On Human Vulnerability - Bryan S. Turner
Chapter 11. Children's Rights - Brian Gran and Rachel Bryant
Part IV. The Global and the Local
Chapter 12. Growing and Learning Human Rights - Judith Blau
Chapter 13. Going Forward - Judith Blau
Promoting Cultural Rights
Globalizing the Human Rights Perspective
Linking Human Rights and the Environment
Arizonäs SB 1070: Setting Conditions for Violations of Human Rights Here and Beyond
Beyond Two Identities: Turkish Immigrants in Germany
The Rights of Age
Children¿s Rights
Ensuring Economic and Social Rights
Foreword - Shulamith Koenig