Session at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), held
in Las Vegas on August 21, 2011. Sponsored by the ASA and Sociologists Without Borders
(SSF), the session evaluated the significance of the “Statement Affirming and Expanding the
Commitment of the American Sociological Association to Human Rights”(2009) for research,
teaching, and service in the discipline. In this light, the essential contents of the text merit …