Annotation By highlighting the role of the Public Sociologist and the international conception of human rights, this volume uniquely contributes to scholarship and current debates, while it also accomplishes two other objectives: first, it will be useful in the classroom; and second, it reorganizes themes that relate to globalization from a new perspective. The volume does cover topics that are familiar to American sociologists - racial and economic inequalities, global capitalism, feminism, the Welfare State - and it also includes topics that are less familiar to American sociologists, such as sustainability, the United Nations, and indigenous groups. It positions Public Sociology as playing a pivotal role in American sociology.
