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Economic Justice

About: Economic Justice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 41600 publications have been published within this topic receiving 661535 citations.


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TL;DR: Gilligan translated this question into research by subjecting the abstraction of universal and discrete agency to comparative research into female behavior evaluated on its own terms and revealed women to be more concrete in their thinking and more attuned to "fairness" while men acted on abstract reasoning and "rules of justice" as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: justice. Women, by contrast, were believed to be at a lower stage because they were found to have a sense of agency still tied primarily to their social relationships and to make political and moral decisions based on context-specific principles based on these relationships rather than on the grounds of their own autonomous judgments. Students of gender studies know well just how busy social scientists have been kept by their efforts to come up with ever more sociological "alibis" for the question of why women did not act like men. Gilligan's response was to refuse the terms of the debate altogether. She thus did not develop yet another explanation for why women are "deviant." Instead, she turned the question on its head by asking what was wrong with the theory a theory whose central premises defines 50% of social beings as "abnormal." Gilligan translated this question into research by subjecting the abstraction of universal and discrete agency to comparative research into female behavior evaluated on its own terms The new research revealed women to be more "concrete" in their thinking and more attuned to "fairness" while men acted on "abstract reasoning" and "rules of justice." These research findings transformed female otherness into variation and difference but difference now freed from the normative de-

2,345 citations

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01 Jan 1982
TL;DR: Sandel as mentioned in this paper locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls, tracing the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it, and argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allows.
Abstract: A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? These are the questions Michael Sandel takes up in this penetrating critique of contemporary liberalism. Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls. In the most important challenge yet to Rawls' theory of justice, Sandel traces the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it, and argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allows.

2,308 citations

01 Sep 1976
TL;DR: Leventhal and Leventhal as mentioned in this paper discussed what should be done with equity theory in social relations and proposed a new approach to the study of fairness in social relationships, based on social exchange theory.
Abstract: AUTHOR Leventhal, Gerald S TITLE What Should Be Done with Equity Theory? New Approaches to the Study of Fairness in Social Relationships SPONS AGENCY National Science Foundation, Washington, DC PUB DATE Sep 76 GRANT GS-3171 NOTE 52p;,To appear as a chapter in Gezgen, KO, Ed, And Others, "Social Exchange Theory," John Wiley, 1977 AVAILABLE FROM Dr Gerald S Leventhal, Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202 (free)

2,140 citations

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TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between organizational justice and organizational retaliation behavior and found a relation between distributive justice and retaliation only when there was low interactional and procedural justice, and the 2-way interaction of distributive and interactional justice was observed only at a low level of procedural justice.
Abstract: The authors investigated the relationship between organizational justice and organizational retaliation behavior—adverse reactions to perceived unfairness by disgruntled employees toward their employer—in a sample of 240 manufacturing employees. Distributive, procedural, and interactional justice interacted to predict organizational retaliation behavior. A relation between distributive justice and retaliation was found only when there was low interactional and procedural justice. The 2-way interaction of distributive and procedural justice was observed only at a low level of interactional justice, and the 2-way interaction of distributive and interactional justice was observed only at a low level of procedural justice.

2,134 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that capabilities can help us to construct a normative conception of social justice, with critical potential for gender issues, only if we specify a definite set of capabilities as the most important ones to protect.
Abstract: Amartya Sen has made a major contribution to the theory of social justice, and of gender justice, by arguing that capabilities are the relevant space of comparison when justice-related issues are considered. This article supports Sen's idea, arguing that capabilities supply guidance superior to that of utility and resources (the view's familiar opponents), but also to that of the social contract tradition, and at least some accounts of human rights. But I argue that capabilities can help us to construct a normative conception of social justice, with critical potential for gender issues, only if we specify a definite set of capabilities as the most important ones to protect. Sen's "perspective of freedom" is too vague. Some freedoms limit others; some freedoms are important, some trivial, some good, and some positively bad. Before the approach can offer a valuable normative gender perspective, we must make commitments about substance.

2,008 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202414
20233,633
20227,866
20211,595
20201,689
20191,729