ESW Open Seminar Series
CIE
Monday 20th October, 4.30pm
Room 104, Fulton
Speaker
Professor Kate Nash, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths,
University of London, presents:
Sociology of Human Rights:
Culture, Structures, Organisations
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What do sociologists have to contribute to the study of human
rights?
In this seminar, Professor Nash argues that a sociological
perspective that takes meanings, structures and organisations into
account, can help avoid over-simplifying what is needed to realise
human rights in practice.
The metaphor of ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’ often invoked is
inadequate to this complexity – what is needed are fundamental
changes in structures that can only be achieved both by changes in
everyday common-sense, and at the same time in law and public
policy.
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This seminar can be joined remotely by logging on to:
https://connectpro.sussex.ac.uk/cie_nash20oct14
This seminar will also be recorded and available to view
retrospectively at: www.sussex.ac.uk/education/seminars