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Theorizing Human Rights

Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews

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First published online March, 2014

Theorizing Human Rights

Volume 43, Issue 2

https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306114522414d

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Mathias

Matthew D.

2013. “The Sacralization of the Individual: Human Rights and the Abolition of the Death Penalty.” American Journal of Sociology. 118 (5): 1246–1283.

Parsons

Talcott

. 1978. “The ‘Gift of Life’ and its Reciprocation,” pp. 264–99 in Parsons, Action Theory and the Human Condition. New York, NY: The Free Press.

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