Encyclopedia entry
Social Justice
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020
Abstract
Social justice is a central obligation of civil society where the measure of the ethical integrity of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. Rawls' (1971) theory of justice as fairness in the context of political liberalism has been influential in modern western capitalist societies. Rawlsian justice is based on the principle that free and rational people accept the rightness of equality for all members of society as the basis for all other agreements, social cooperation, and forms of government. It presumes that justice will be achieved by a redistribution of societal resources to ensure fairness for all. Feminist scholars have criticized his theory for not giving sufficient regard to emotions in his rational ethic of justice and for not asking the question - fairness for whom?
Details
- Title
- Social Justice
- Authors
- Dyann Ross (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Social Sciences
- Contributors
- Samuel Idowu (Editor)Rene Schmidpeter (Editor)Nicholas Capaldi (Editor)Liangrong Zu (Editor)Mara Del Baldo (Editor)Rute Abreu (Editor)
- Publication details
- Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_186-1; 10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451607702621
- Output Type
- Encyclopedia entry
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