Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-537190-1
Verlag: OUP US

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

In Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights, editors Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew K. Woods bring together a stellar group of contributors from across the social sciences to apply a broad yet conceptually unified array of advanced social science research concepts to the study of human rights and human rights law. The book focus on three key methodological and substantive areas: actors, or social and political perspectives, including
behavioral economics; communication, covering linguistics, media studies, and social entrepreneurship; and groups, via organizational theory, political economy, social movements, and complexity theory. Their goal is to provide a more comprehensive and more practical theory of social action, which necessarily
requires a better understanding of individuals, organizations of individuals, and the ways in which both relate to other individuals and organizations.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of: human rights law, human rights, psychology, sociology, political science, political theory, international relations, international studies, peace studies, media studies, and economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodman, Ryan

Jinks, Derek

Woods, Andrew K.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Social Science and Human Rights
Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew K. Woods
2. The Psychology of Social Norms and the Promotion of Human Rights
Deborah A. Prentice
3. Why Can't We Sell Human Rights Like We Sell Soap?
Robert C. Hornik
4. The Reasons for Compliance with Law
Margaret Levi, Tom Tyler, and Audrey Sacks
5. Can International Law Stop Genocide When Our Moral Intuitions Fail Us?
Paul Slovic and David Zionts
6. Human Rights: An Evolutionary and Behavioral Perspective
Herbert Gintis
7. Moral Grammar and Human Rights: Some Reflections on Cognitive Science and Enlightenment Rationalism
John Mikhail
8. Parochialism as a Result of Cognitive Biases
Jonathan Baron
9. Networks and Politics: The Case of Human Rights
David Lazer
10. Barriers to Dispute Resolution: Reflections on Peacemaking and Relationships between Adversaries
Byron Bland, Brenna Powell and Lee Ross
11. The Difference It Makes
William F. Schulz
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan Goodman is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law and Co-Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law. Derek Jinks is the Marrs McLean Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas. Andrew K. Woods is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on
Law at Harvard Law School.