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Current Societal Concerns about Justice (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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Current Societal Concerns about Justice (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: Critical Issues in Social Justice
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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."
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