Cover; Prelims; Preface; Contents; Notes on Contributors;
1. Making Human Rights Intelligible: An Introduction to a Sociology of Human Rights; Part I. Sociological Understandings of Human Rights;
2. State Building, Constitutional Rights and the Social Construction of Norms: Outline for a Sociology of Constitutions;
3. Differentiation and Inclusion: A Neglected Sociological Approach to Fundamental Rights;
4. Beyond Prescription: Towards a Reflexive Sociolgoy of Human Rights;
5. Human Rights between Brute Fact and Articulated Aspiration
6. International Human Rights versus Democracy Promotion: On Two Different Meanings of Human Rights in US Foreign Policy
7. Towards a Socio-legal Analysis of the European Convention on Human Rights;
8. In Defence of Societies; Part II. Human Rights and the Transformation of Key Institutions of Modern Society;
9. From Citizenship to Human Rights to Human Rights Education;
10. (Human) Rights and Solidarity -- Restructuring the National Welfare Space;
11. Adapting Locally to International Health and Human Rights Standards: An Alternative Theoretidal Framework for Progressive Realisation
12. 'Legal Form' and the Purchase of Human Rights Discourse in Domestic Policy-Making: The Achievement of Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
13. Activating the Law: Exploring the Legal Responses of NGOs to Gross Rights Violations;
14. The Complexities of Human Rights Implementation within the Costa Rican Police System; Index
1. Making Human Rights Intelligible: An Introduction to a Sociology of Human Rights; Part I. Sociological Understandings of Human Rights;
2. State Building, Constitutional Rights and the Social Construction of Norms: Outline for a Sociology of Constitutions;
3. Differentiation and Inclusion: A Neglected Sociological Approach to Fundamental Rights;
4. Beyond Prescription: Towards a Reflexive Sociolgoy of Human Rights;
5. Human Rights between Brute Fact and Articulated Aspiration
6. International Human Rights versus Democracy Promotion: On Two Different Meanings of Human Rights in US Foreign Policy
7. Towards a Socio-legal Analysis of the European Convention on Human Rights;
8. In Defence of Societies; Part II. Human Rights and the Transformation of Key Institutions of Modern Society;
9. From Citizenship to Human Rights to Human Rights Education;
10. (Human) Rights and Solidarity -- Restructuring the National Welfare Space;
11. Adapting Locally to International Health and Human Rights Standards: An Alternative Theoretidal Framework for Progressive Realisation
12. 'Legal Form' and the Purchase of Human Rights Discourse in Domestic Policy-Making: The Achievement of Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
13. Activating the Law: Exploring the Legal Responses of NGOs to Gross Rights Violations;
14. The Complexities of Human Rights Implementation within the Costa Rican Police System; Index