WHEN SECURITY SUCCEEDS AND RIGHTS FAIL ; A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY
ABSTRACT National Security has emerged as a dominant framework of governance structures in the contemporary era, simultaneously replacing the much-celebrated and more important concept of Human Rights as a tool for maintaining Social Order. Citizens themselves support this prioritisation in most of the situations, even if it is not in their best interest. The Sociological contrast between the notions of Human Rights and National Security can be used to investigate the cause of this paradox. While human rights lean towards being an individual experience, National Security is more of a collective concern. The Sociological superiority of a groupconscience over any individualistic need is consequently observed. As the personal nature of justice and rights, which implies their limited social grounding, gradually reduces the effectiveness of their advocacy, security succeeds by producing social cohesion and collective needs. In this paper, classical and modern theoretical frameworks in...