Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
TL;DR: Lawler as mentioned in this paper argued that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament, which is hardly a rational position in the sense that it is suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some.
Abstract: that a plurality of the American Catholic bishops endorse a nuclear freeze (p. 4), saying that they are thus "taking their stance with Moscow,55 which is for a freeze, and not with the Vatican, which "is still in favor of disarmament?not a freeze.55 To make any sense at all, Mr. Lawler must mean that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament? hardly a rational position. One recalls here the arguments, during the 19305s and 19405s, that being for racial justice in the United States was suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some, because the communists also favored it.
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...This occurs both explicitly and implicitly, as they draw on every-day events as well as on “taken-for-granted assumptions” (Schwartz-Shea, 2006, p. 92) that stem from “their history and culture” (Walzer, 1983, p. 66), including what I refer to as the U.S.’s hegemonic poverty discourse....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a brief overview of the development of support for children with learning difficulties and disabilities within the context of Scottish comprehensive schooling, and explore the experiences of families from different social backgrounds, whose children have been identified as having additional support needs.
Abstract: Since the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, successive administrations have reaffirmed their commitment to social justice. However, despite high-level equality policies, social-class inequality is a major feature of Scottish society, affecting all social policy domains, including education. In this article, we provide a brief overview of the development of support for children with learning difficulties and disabilities within the context of Scottish comprehensive schooling. We then consider the way in which ideas of social justice are reflected in education for learners with additional support needs, whose numbers have expanded over recent years and who are particularly likely to live in the most deprived parts of Scotland. Using family case studies, we explore the experiences of families from different social backgrounds, whose children have been identified as having additional support needs. The data suggest that children living in deprived areas experience cumulative disadvantage, a...
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TL;DR: The Mean Girls (2004) movie as mentioned in this paper is a window on popular notions of the moral life of American high schools, which straddles Kohlberg's Stage 2 and 3, and presents loyalty to peer group cliques as a key value, even as it offers an individualist, relativist critique of that loyalty.
Abstract: This article analyses the film Mean girls (2004) as a window on popular notions of the moral life of American high schools, which straddles Kohlberg's Stage 2 and 3. The film presents loyalty to peer group cliques as a key value, even as it offers an individualist, relativist critique of that loyalty. Gossip is the main transgression in this tale of mundane moral life, and the school's failure to create a sense of community allows violence to erupt among the eleventh grade girls when the gossip gets out of hand. The sex education classes are a biting critique of ‘values education’ as adult hypocrisy and indoctrination. Gender‐related issues of caring (beginning with the film's title) are discussed, as is the anomalous portrayal of immanent justice. Strategies for improving the moral climate of this fictional school are discussed from both liberal and communitarian points of view.
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...…values, rather than individualism, been on the moviemaker’s agenda, maths could have been the platform for that universalism or at least the segue to some middle ground of value-based communitarianism—especially if Walzer (1983) is correct that moral principles are most often community-specific....
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TL;DR: It is not uncommon for activists to use the language of colonization or occupation to describe the social dynamics at work in cities undergoing gentrification as discussed by the authors. But should these claims be regarded as ou...
Abstract: It is not uncommon for activists to use the language of colonization or occupation to describe the social dynamics at work in cities undergoing gentrification. Should these claims be regarded as ou...
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TL;DR: This paper introduced the concept of meta-performance as a tool for analyzing such instances, arguing that this enables us to consider interpretive vantage points that are not conditioned by the actor's intent.
Abstract: This article extends the cultural-pragmatics model of symbolic action developed by Jeffrey Alexander and his associates, which observes that symbolic action has become difficult in contemporary, highly differentiated societies. When symbolic action succeeds, the cultural-pragmatics approach argues it does so by re-“fusing” the elements of social performance, which have been disaggregated by the effects of social differentiation. Fusion produces affectively charged shared interpretations with the power to reshape the social world in important ways. Drawing on an example from my own ethnographic research, I argue that the current articulation of cultural pragmatics is unable to apprehend instances when such affectively charged shared interpretations are produced even when the actor or actors in a performance fail to achieve their performative goals. In this article I introduce the concept of “meta-performance” as a tool for analyzing such instances, arguing that this enables us to consider interpretive vantage points that are not conditioned by the actor’s intent. I then apply my extended meta-performative model to the ethnographic episode that inspired it. This bitterly fought court case between an adult daughter and her family produced a shared feeling among those assembled of hopeless deadlock between the family members, drawing a series of sharp symbolic boundaries – inter alia, between the daughter and her family and between “love” and “money” – not only despite, but precisely because all the participants’ component performances failed.
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