Social problems: a human rights perspective

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...

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1. Verfasser: Bonds, Eric 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2014
Schriftenreihe:Framing 21st Century Social Issues
Zusammenfassung: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 d
Beschreibung:Social Problems: a human rights perspective
Beschreibung:112 S.
ISBN:9780415737128
9781317816089