From the office of the President SSF - US Chapter

SSF US Chapter President

Davita Silfen Glasberg
Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Undergraduate Education
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
President, Sociologists Without Borders
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Unit 2068
University of Connecticut
344 Mansfield Road
Storrs, CT 06269-2068
Phone: 860-486-5504

http://sociology.uconn.edu/faculty/glasberg.html

 

 

Note from Judith Blau:

Why Should Human Rights be Important to Sociologists?

In a world of exacerbated inequalities, runaway markets, and the merciless disregard of human dignity and security, sociologists will discover that a human rights perspective is useful if they are concerned about social, racial, gender and environmental justice, economic fairness, and equitable nation-states. This perspective holds that all humans are entitled to social, economic, housing, healthcare and political rights; to a cultural, racial, ethnic and sexual identity; and opposes discrimination against minorities and women. It is a subversive perspective, advocating deep forms of democracy and suspicious of capitalism that, by definition, exploits workers. [read more]

An invitation to American Sociologists...

Oddly, the most powerful, richest country in the world is estranged from worldwide commitments and endeavors to advance the rights of humans – their wellbeing, dignity, and human differences. [read more]