In a world where genocide, hunger, poverty, war, and disease
persist and where richer nations often fail to act to address these
problems or act too late, a prerequisite to achieving even modest
social justice goals is to clarify the meaning of competing
discourses on the concept. Throughout history, calls for social
justice have been used to rationalize the status quo, promote
modest reforms, and justify revolutionary, even violent action.
Ironically, as the prominence of the concept has risen, the meaning
of social justice has become increasingly obscured. This
authoritative volume explores different perspectives on social
justice and what its attainment would involve. It addresses key
issues, such as resolving fundamental questions about human nature
and social relationships; the distribution of resources, power,
status, rights, access, and opportunities; and the means by which
decisions regarding this distribution are made. Illustrating the
complexity of the topic, it presents a range of international,
historical, and theoretical perspectives, and discusses the
dilemmas inherent in implementing social justice concepts in policy
and practice. Covering more than abstract definitions of social
justice, it also includes multiple examples of how social justice
might be achieved at the interpersonal, organizational, community,
and societal levels. With contributions from leading scholars
around the globe, Reisch has put together a magisterial and
multi-faceted overview of social justice. It is an essential
reference work for all scholars with an interest in social justice
from a wide range of disciplines, including social work, public
policy, public health, law, criminology, sociology, and education.
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