David L. Brunsma is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. His areas of research include sociologies of human rights and human rights sociologies, racial identity and racism, cognitive sociology and epistemologies, and multiraciality and whiteness. Keri E. Iyall Smith’s research explores the intersections between human rights doctrine, the state, and indigenous peoples in the context of a globalizing society. She has published articles on hybridity and world society, human rights, indigenous peoples, and teaching sociology. Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations (with Patricia Leavy, 2008). She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Brian K. Gran is a former lawyer whose sociological research focuses on human rights and institutions that support and hinder their enforcement, with a particular interest in whether law can intervene in private spheres of the ISA Thematic Group on Human Rights and Global Justice (TG03). For his research on independent children’s rights institutions, he was a visiting fellow of the Fulbright grant to research and teach at the School of Law at Reykjavik University in Iceland.

• Introduction1 Community and Urban SociologyKenneth Neubeck2 Peace, War, and Social Conflict Nader Saiedi3 Environment and TechnologyFrancis O. Adeola and J. Steven Picou4 Population Jenniffer Santos-Hernández5 Collective Behavior and Social MovementsLyndi Hewitt6 Alcohol, Drugs, and TobaccoJennifer Bronson7 Rationality and SocietyValeska P. Korff, Mimi Zou, Tom Zwart, and Rafael Wittek8 International MigrationTanya Golash-Boza9 Labor and Labor Movements Héctor L. Delgado10 Evolution, Biology, and SociologyRosemary L. HopcroftDiscussion QuestionsList of AcronymsBibliographyAbout the Editors

David L. Brunsma is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. His areas of research include sociologies of human rights and human rights sociologies, racial identity and racism, cognitive sociology and epistemologies, and multiraciality and whiteness. Keri E. Iyall Smith’s research explores the intersections between human rights doctrine, the state, and indigenous peoples in the context of a globalizing society. She has published articles on hybridity and world society, human rights, indigenous peoples, and teaching sociology. Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations (with Patricia Leavy, 2008). She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Brian K. Gran is a former lawyer whose sociological research focuses on human rights and institutions that support and hinder their enforcement, with a particular interest in whether law can intervene in private spheres of the ISA Thematic Group on Human Rights and Global Justice (TG03). For his research on independent children’s rights institutions, he was a visiting fellow of the Fulbright grant to research and teach at the School of Law at Reykjavik University in Iceland.

• Introduction1 Community and Urban SociologyKenneth Neubeck2 Peace, War, and Social Conflict Nader Saiedi3 Environment and TechnologyFrancis O. Adeola and J. Steven Picou4 Population Jenniffer Santos-Hernández5 Collective Behavior and Social MovementsLyndi Hewitt6 Alcohol, Drugs, and TobaccoJennifer Bronson7 Rationality and SocietyValeska P. Korff, Mimi Zou, Tom Zwart, and Rafael Wittek8 International MigrationTanya Golash-Boza9 Labor and Labor Movements Héctor L. Delgado10 Evolution, Biology, and SociologyRosemary L. HopcroftDiscussion QuestionsList of AcronymsBibliographyAbout the Editors

David L. Brunsma is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. His areas of research include sociologies of human rights and human rights sociologies, racial identity and racism, cognitive sociology and epistemologies, and multiraciality and whiteness. Keri E. Iyall Smith’s research explores the intersections between human rights doctrine, the state, and indigenous peoples in the context of a globalizing society. She has published articles on hybridity and world society, human rights, indigenous peoples, and teaching sociology. Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations (with Patricia Leavy, 2008). She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Brian K. Gran is a former lawyer whose sociological research focuses on human rights and institutions that support and hinder their enforcement, with a particular interest in whether law can intervene in private spheres of the ISA Thematic Group on Human Rights and Global Justice (TG03). For his research on independent children’s rights institutions, he was a visiting fellow of the Fulbright grant to research and teach at the School of Law at Reykjavik University in Iceland.

• Introduction1 Community and Urban SociologyKenneth Neubeck2 Peace, War, and Social Conflict Nader Saiedi3 Environment and TechnologyFrancis O. Adeola and J. Steven Picou4 Population Jenniffer Santos-Hernández5 Collective Behavior and Social MovementsLyndi Hewitt6 Alcohol, Drugs, and TobaccoJennifer Bronson7 Rationality and SocietyValeska P. Korff, Mimi Zou, Tom Zwart, and Rafael Wittek8 International MigrationTanya Golash-Boza9 Labor and Labor Movements Héctor L. Delgado10 Evolution, Biology, and SociologyRosemary L. HopcroftDiscussion QuestionsList of AcronymsBibliographyAbout the Editors