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Current Societal Concerns about Justice

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Editors:
  1. Leo Montada

    1. FbI-Psychologie, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

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  2. Melvin J. Lerner

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Doing Justice to the Justice Motive

    • Melvin J. Lerner
    Pages 1-8

  3. Distributive Justice in a Real World

    • Russell Hardin
    Pages 9-24

  4. The Power of the Myth of Self-Interest

    • Dale T. Miller, Rebecca K. Ratner
    Pages 25-48

  5. Empathy, Altruism, and Justice: Another Perspective on Partiality

    • C. Daniel Batson
    Pages 49-66

  6. Intergenerational Relations, Inequality, and Social Justice

    • Karen S. Cook, Shawn Donnelly
    Pages 67-83

  7. Have Feminists Abandoned Social Activism? Voices from the Academy

    • Faye J. Crosby, Janet Todd, Judith Worell
    Pages 85-102

  8. From Is to Ought and the Kitchen Sink: On the Justice of Distributions in Close Relationships

    • Barbara Reichle
    Pages 103-135

  9. Justice and Leadership: A Social Co-Constructionist Agenda

    • James R. Meindl, Karen J. Thompson
    Pages 137-153

  10. Victims without Harmdoers: Human Casualties in the Pursuit of Corporate Efficiency

    • Melvin J. Lerner
    Pages 155-170

  11. Mass Unemployment under Perspectives of Justice

    • Leo Montada
    Pages 171-193

  12. What Is Fair in the Environmental Debate?

    • Susan Clayton
    Pages 195-211

  13. Is Justice Finite? The Case of Environmental Inclusion

    • Susan Opotow
    Pages 213-230

  14. Are Proenvironmental Commitments Motivated by Health Concerns or by Perceived Justice?

    • Elisabeth Kals
    Pages 231-258

  15. Tradeoffs between Justice and Self-Interest

    • Leo Montada
    Pages 259-275

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 277-286
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • FbI-Psychologie, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

    Leo Montada

  • Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

    Melvin J. Lerner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Current Societal Concerns about Justice

  • Editors: Leo Montada, Melvin J. Lerner

  • Series Title: Critical Issues in Social Justice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9927-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45395-3Published: 31 October 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-9929-3Published: 31 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-9927-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-1906

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 286

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general

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