What role does justice play in the formation of public opinion and the scholar...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...more
What role does justice play in the formation of public opinion and the scholar...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...more
Justice plays an important role in our culture. The topic of justice has attra...Justice plays an important role in our culture. The topic of justice has attracted the attention of scholars all over the world. Beginning in 1985 a continuing series of international conferences on social justice in The Netherlands at which...more
A collection of papers first presented at the International Conference on Soci...A collection of papers first presented at the International Conference on Social Justice in Human Relations (Leiden 1986) by sociologists and psychologists from Europe and North America. The 12 papers are organized to reflect two major themes:...more
Justice plays an important role in our culture. The topic of justice has attra...Justice plays an important role in our culture. The topic of justice has attracted the attention of scholars all over the world. Beginning in 1985 a continuing series of international conferences on social justice in The Netherlands at which...more
This collection represents a provocative series of essays that systematically ...This collection represents a provocative series of essays that systematically reviews or extends the role of critical social theory in fostering justice and change in several relevant though problematic social contexts. The articles grapple with the...more
Education in Indonesia: Critical Perspectives on Equity and SocialJusticeEducation in Indonesia: Critical Perspectives on Equity and Social Justicemore
This volume was conceived out of the concern with what the imminent future hol...This volume was conceived out of the concern with what the imminent future holds for the have countries ... those societies such as the United States which are based on complex technology and a high level of energy consumption. Even the most...more
Beginning with the assumption that a justice motive exists the author posits t...Beginning with the assumption that a justice motive exists the author posits that belief in a just world influences the behavior of most people most of the time. This is true for all people of all ages and in all areas of life for those struggling...more
The publication of this anthology culminates what began as a Visiting Distingu...The publication of this anthology culminates what began as a Visiting Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series sponsored by the School of Jus- tice Studies. When Dr. John M. Johnson was awarded the Arizona State University Graduate College s...more
This book uses a declarative mapping methodology to examine a range of issues ...This book uses a declarative mapping methodology to examine a range of issues relating to environmental and social justice issues including climate change homelessness refugees food insecurity and racial and gender inequality. The book explores how...more
We dedicate this book to John Thibaut. He was mentor and personal friend to on...We dedicate this book to John Thibaut. He was mentor and personal friend to one of us and his work had a profound intellectual influence on both of us. We were both strongly influenced by Thibaut s insightful articulation of the importance to...more
Ronald L. Cohen Justice is a central moral standard insocial life. It is invo...Ronald L. Cohen Justice is a central moral standard in social life. It is invoked in judging individual persons and in judging the basic structure of societies. It has been described as akin to a human hunger or thirst (Pascal Pensees cited in...more
This collection represents a provocative series of essays that systematically ...This collection represents a provocative series of essays that systematically reviews or extends the role of critical social theory in fostering justice and change in several relevant though problematic social contexts. The articles grapple with the...more
When we say that a person deserves a positive or negative outcome we are makin...When we say that a person deserves a positive or negative outcome we are making a judgment that is influenced by a number ofvariables. We would certainly take into account whether the person was resp-...more