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The Sense of Injustice

Social Psychological Perspectives

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Robert Folger

    1. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

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Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Social Justice (CISJ)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

    Robert Folger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Sense of Injustice

  • Book Subtitle: Social Psychological Perspectives

  • Editors: Robert Folger

  • Series Title: Critical Issues in Social Justice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2683-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9669-0Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2683-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1572-1906

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 294

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general

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