The Sense of Injustice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Forms of Justice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Emerging Issues in the Social Psychology of Justice

      • Robert Folger

      Pages 3-24

   3. The Multidimensionality of Justice

      • Harry T. Reis

      Pages 25-61

   4. Fairness and Effectiveness in Premeditated Helping

      • Vita C. Rabinowitz, Jurgis Karuza Jr., Michael A. Zevon

      Pages 63-92

3. Antecedents of Justice Concerns

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Catalysts for Collective Violence

      • Joanne Martin, Alan Murray

      Pages 95-139

   3. Relative Deprivation and Equity Theories

      • Faye Crosby, A. Miren Gonzalez-Intal

      Pages 141-166

   4. On the Apocryphal Nature of Inequity Distress

      • Jerald Greenberg

      Pages 167-186

4. Arenas of Justice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Justice in the Political Arena

      • Tom R. Tyler

      Pages 189-225

   3. Legal Justice and the Psychology of Conflict Resolution

      • William Austin, Joyce M. Tobiasen

      Pages 227-274

5. Back Matter

   Pages 275-280

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The importance of justice cannot be overstated. As one author has put it, "A better understanding of how justice concerns develop and function in people's lives should enable us to plan more effectively for institutional and other social change to deal with the problems that confront humankind" (S. C. Lerner, 1981, p. 466). The volume in which that statement appeared-an earlier one in this same series-was devoted to exploring the impact that dwindling resources and an increasing rate of change have had upon people's concern for justice. In contrast, the present volume places greater emphasis on the word under­ standing, as it was used in the context of the preceding quotation, than upon effective planning, social change, and ways of dealing with human problems. Nothing in that statement of purpose is meant to belittle the urgency of translat­ ing understanding into action, because the social significance of justice concerns is a major factor that has prompted the authors of the chapters in this book to do research in the area. Rather, this volume receives its emphasis from Kurt Lewin's famous dictum there is nothing so practical as a good theory. The need for good theory is ongoing, and these pages are dedicated to a search for new pathways toward better theory.

• Action
• Institution
• Kurt Lewin
• Motive
• Nation
• aggression
• behavior
• conflict
• evaluation
• nature
• planning
• psychology
• social change
• social psychology
• violence

• Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

  Robert Folger

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