Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective

✍ Scribed by Eric Bonds

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective, Second Edition evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean, along with a sociological exploration of power and inequality to explain why human rights are so often violated or left ignored and unfulfilled in the United States.



In each chapter, the book offers numerous policy alternatives that could provide a pathway toward the increased fulfillment of rights, while also stressing the important role that nonviolent social movements have had, and must have in the future, in achieving greater justice, dignity, wellbeing, and environmental protection in our society. This edition includes several new chapters on topics of major interest to students, including:





the human right to health



climate change and human rights



immigration and human rights violations in U.S. society



a new discussion of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.



Social Problems gives social science students a new way to understand pressing social issues that exist in their own communities.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to the Human Rights Perspective
The Social Construction of Social Problems
The Human Rights Approach
Discussion Questions
Note
References
2 Rights to Wellbeing and Property in an Unequal Society
Dignity and Wellbeing Compromised
Achieving Wellbeing for All in U.S. Society
Concentrations of Income and Wealth in the United States in a Human Rights Context
Striking a Balance Between Property Ownership and Wellbeing to Satisfy Rights
Discussion Questions
Note
References
4 Racism and the Human Right to Be Treated Equally Before the Law
Historical Policies of Explicit Racism in U.S. Governance
Human Rights, Racism, and Drug Enforcement
Promoting Racial Justice in the United States
Discussion Questions
References
5 Violations of Women’s and LGBTQ Rights in U.S. Society
Hetero-Patriarchy and Human Rights
Violence, Hetero-Patriarchy, and Human Rights
Working to Fulfill Women’s and LGBTQ Rights as Human Rights
Discussion Questions
Note
References
6 The Human Right to Health and the Toxic Politics of Expendability
Explaining Differences in Life, Death, and Health in U.S. Society
Expendability and Inequalities in Health
A Case Study in Expendability: America’s Toxic Lead Problem
Getting Involved to Achieve Rights to Health
Discussion Questions
References
7 Carbon Pollution, Climate Change, and Human Rights
The Carbon Budget, and the Choice to Surpass It
Inequality and the Human Rights Impacts of Climate Change
Taking Action for a Safer Climate
Discussion Questions
Note
References
8 U.S. Immigration Policy and Violations of Human Rights
Violating Human Rights to Asylum in the United States
U.S. Immigration Policy and the Right to a Nationality
U.S. Immigration Policy and the Right to Family
Ethnonationalism and Its Myths
Achieving an Immigration Policy that Upholds Human Rights
Discussion Questions
References
9 U.S. Society, Global Inequalities, and Human Rights
Human Rights in the Global Economy
Efforts to Promote Global Human Rights
Discussion Questions
References
10 Volunteerism, Activism, and the Pursuit of Human Rights
Volunteering to Fulfill Human Rights
Taking Political Action to Promote Human Rights
Human Rights, Turbulent Times, and our Uncertain Future
Discussion Questions
References
Glossary
Appendix: The Universal Declaration of Human
Index