Beginning with Margaret Somers and Christopher Roberts’ review of the sociology of human rights and Bryan Turner and Malcolm Waters’ debate therein, the author presents some of the questions which have been so far been the focus of this sociological sub-discipline. This review raises the question of ‘rights’ as a subject of study, and the normative consequences therein. From here, the author introduces recognition theory as a potential participant in these discussions around human rights. The author traces recognition theory from its Hegelian origins to the work of Axel Honneth, and the critiques of Nancy Fraser, Frantz Fanon, and Glen Sean Coulthard. Despite Fanon and Coulthard’s critical accounts, they reinforce the value of recognition within any sociology of human rights. Lastly, the author briefly engages with Alasdair MacIntyre as both a dialogical participant, and a means towards dialogue in the first place between recognition theory and human rights. Concluding, the author argues that the normative and descriptive nature of recognition theory offers a useful tool to aid in sociological theorizations of human nature and rights, while addressing some of the problems raised by early theorists of the sub-discipline and preventing siloing of the sub-discipline within a universalist or particularist vein.

从玛格丽特·萨默斯和克里斯托弗·罗伯茨对人权社会学的评论以及布莱恩·特纳和马尔科姆·沃特斯在其中的辩论开始，作者提出了一些迄今为止一直是这一社会学子学科重点的问题。这篇评论提出了“权利”作为研究主题的问题，以及其中的规范后果。从这里开始，作者介绍了作为这些围绕人权的讨论的潜在参与者的承认理论。作者将识别理论从黑格尔的起源追溯到 Axel Honneth 的工作，以及对 Nancy Fraser、Frantz Fanon 和 Glen Sean Coulthard 的批评。尽管法农和库特哈德的批评性叙述，他们强化了在任何人权社会学中承认的价值。最后，作者简要地与阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔（Alasdair MacIntyre）打交道，他既是对话参与者，也是承认理论与人权之间首先进行对话的手段。最后，作者认为规范承认理论的描述性和描述性提供了一个有用的工具来帮助人类本性和权利的社会学理论化，同时解决早期子学科理论家提出的一些问题，并防止子学科在普遍主义或特殊主义的脉络中孤立.