Sociologists without Borders (SSF/SWB), a transnational association of sociologists, was founded in Spain in 2001. We are committed to the following principles:

1.- All people have equal rights to political freedoms and legal protections, to socioeconomic security, to self-determination, and to their personality, regardless of where they live, their faith, gender, sexual orientation, skin color, etc. They have the same universal rights, including their rights to their own particular cultures.

2.- SSF promotes an understanding that collective goods, including a sustainable environment, cannot be privatized.

3.- Sociologists without Borders is opposed to militarism, opposed to states that oppress their citizens, and condemns racism and violence against women.

4.- SSF is “partisan,” that is, partisan in favor of human rights, participatory democracy, equitable economies, peace, and sustainable ecosystems.

5.- SSF is thus perfectly in synch with public sociology that advocates that sociologists be engaged and committed, and also reflective and critical.

Currently, SSF International has Chapters in Spain, United States, Chile, Brazil, Iran, Italy, and Canada. Our membership, however, is global. We are committed to creating a platform for reflection and discussion about Democracy, Human Rights, and the new challenges to Sociology in a global environment.

If you think that another world is possible, please join us! Together we can figure out how to make it starting from now.

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Sociologists without Borders Manifesto (18 March 2005):

Sociologists without Borders embraces the principle that all humans have inalienable rights to their dignity, their wellbeing, and their agency. As it is, imperialists, commodifiers, warmongers, capitalists, financiers, and global racists have usurped these rights. Sociologists have acquiesced by studying variation in misery and vulnerabilities. Instead, we advocate that sociologists participate, democratically, with others to set standards for human wellbeing and devote our energies to understanding how to achieve these standards.

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Officers:

• Alberto Moncada (Spain), President of SSF-International
• Judith Blau (UNC), President of USA Chapter
• Ali Tayefi, President of Iran Chapter
• Karina Rodriguez Navarro (LSE), Chilean Chapter

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See related websites at:

http://associations.publicsociology.com