SOSC 2351 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Rights Campaign

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2351
• Professor: Tanja Juric

Document Summary

Human rights dominated by a formalist approach. Seeks to enforce with the law actually says, rather than what is could or should say. Sees law as a set of rules an principles independent o other political and social institutions. This overshadows their cultural grounding and enactment by subjects imbedded in concrete lifeworks (p. 155) Because we have reason we can recognize the law. Studies the conventions and repertoires of human rights by. Does not follow pre-existing code/adhere to rule. Confronts specific perils and works through them. *tests the limits and functions of human rights by seeing how they work in practice! Human rights as practices (not abstract ideals: concentrated through intersubjective process (speaking out to perpetrators; bringing different perspectives to public form) 2) examine human rights in concrete worksites. Varied spaces and arenas of public debate in which injustices are discussed (film festivals, popular music, art exhibition)