Current Societal Concerns about Justice

What role does justice play in the formation of public opinion and the scholarly debates about social problems? Does the perception of injustice force problems to appear on the political agenda? Does the perception of an injustice give momentum to social change? Or are violations of self-interest or...

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Other Authors: Montada, Leo (Editor), Lerner, Melvin J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Critical Issues in Social Justice
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 1 Doing Justice to the Justice Motive -- 2 Distributive Justice in a Real World -- 3 The Power of the Myth of Self-Interest -- 4 Empathy, Altruism, and Justice: Another Perspective on Partiality -- 5 Intergenerational Relations, Inequality, and Social Justice -- 6 Have Feminists Abandoned Social Activism? Voices from the Academy -- 7 From Is to Ought and the Kitchen Sink: On the Justice of Distributions in Close Relationships -- 8 Justice and Leadership: A Social Co-Constructionist Agenda -- 9 Victims without Harmdoers: Human Casualties in the Pursuit of Corporate Efficiency -- 10 Mass Unemployment under Perspectives of Justice -- 11 What Is Fair in the Environmental Debate? -- 12 Is Justice Finite? The Case of Environmental Inclusion -- 13 Are Proenvironmental Commitments Motivated by Health Concerns or by Perceived Justice? -- 14 Trade-offs between Justice and Self-Interest -- Name Index 
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520 |a What role does justice play in the formation of public opinion and the scholarly debates about social problems? Does the perception of injustice force problems to appear on the political agenda? Does the perception of an injustice give momentum to social change? Or are violations of self-interest or threats to one's material welfare the more important factors? Or are empathy-driven concerns for the needy and the disadvan­ taged motivations to solve societal problems? What is known about the role justice concerns play in leadership? In several chapters of this volume, justice concerns and justice motives are viewed in relation to other concerns and motivations; welfare, self-interest, altruism. It is argued that the consensus of political theorists converges on mutual advantage as the main criterion of acceptable solutions to solving socie­ tal problems. In economics, self-interest is considered the driving force and provides the criterion of acceptable solutions. Sociological and social psychological exchange theories share these basic assumptions. Thus, questions are raised and answered concerning how justice and these other important motives appear in the analyses of societal prob­ lems and the search for solutions. Moreover, in addition to the issue of conflicting motives-self­ interest, altruism, justice-it is commonly recognized that the definition of what is just and what is unjust is open to question. In public as well as in scientific dialogues, diverging views about justice have to be integrated or decided upon