Relational Equality beyond Non-Domination

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-161
Author(s):  
Christian Schemmel
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Relational Goods ◽  
Fair Shares ◽  
Liberal Approach

Non-domination is not the only demand of relational equality. This chapter rejects two important attempts to make sense of demands for other kinds of egalitarian relations, based on the goods of community, friendship, trust, and self-respect. The first is a pluralist, free-standing approach, according to which social equality goes beyond, and sometimes conflicts with, social justice. This approach either leads to egalitarian perfectionism, which should worry liberals, or fails to yield a mandate to shape society according to its demands. The second approach extends distributive theories of equality by incorporating fair shares of the various goods at stake in egalitarian relations. The chapter shows how resulting variants of relation-sensitive distributivism either fail to capture what is distinctive about relational goods, or to yield recognizably egalitarian demands. This result confirms the case for the liberal approach, while underscoring the need to extend it to matters of social status and self-respect.

Social Justice Versus Social Equality

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-498
Author(s):  
Otis B. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Equality

People like us? Social status, social inequality and perceptions of public rental housing

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAY FORREST ◽  
YING WU
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Firing Line

AbstractOver the last three decades or so, neoliberal policies have had a significant effect on housing sectors across a wide range of societies. State rental sectors, in particular, have been in the ideological firing line. Portrayed as inefficient, unresponsive, monopolistic and anachronistic, they have been typically marketised, privatised and downsized. At the same time, wider societal changes have impacted on their social role and social composition. The overall effect on many public rental sectors is now very familiar – growing social and spatial segregation, enclaves of concentrated and multiple disadvantage and increased stigmatisation. Against this background, Hong Kong's public rental sector has survived relatively unscathed and continues to accommodate around a third of its households. This paper examines the experiences and perceptions of Hong Kong public rental housing among those within and outside the sector. How are public tenants perceived in relation to ideas of social status and social equality? How do public tenants see themselves? The paper draws on a survey of 3,000 individuals in Hong Kong which is part of a larger study concerned with housing provision and social change in the Special Administrative Region.

Beyond Conversion and Sanskritisation: Articulating an Alternative Dalit Agenda in East Punjab

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 639-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
RONKI RAM
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Mobility Models ◽  
Clear Indication ◽  
Local Structures ◽  
Catalytic Role ◽  
Northwest India ◽  
Similar Alternative

AbstractGiven different socio-economic structures, and acute landlessness among the Dalits of East Punjab, the agendas of conversion to neo-Buddhism and sanskritisation, the two most popular Dalit social mobility models in India, have failed to strike a cord among the Dalits in this border state of northwest India. But that does not imply that Dalits of Punjab have failed in improving their social status. On the contrary, they have been very vocal in their assertions for social justice and dignity, and pressing for a due share in the local structures of power; a clear indication of a significant surge of Dalit social mobility in Punjab. The question that still remains largely unexplored, however, relates to the patterns of Dalit social mobility in Punjab that have emerged independently of the agendas of conversion to neo-Buddhism and sanskritisation. The study aims to map out the contours of an emerging alternative Dalit agenda in Punjab, which is conspicuous by its absence in existing Dalit studies, and examines its catalytic role in enhancing the legitimacy and effectiveness of increasingly visible Dalit social mobility in the state. The paper concludes by visualising the possibility of an articulation and assertion of a similar alternative Dalit agenda through highly contentious democratic politics in other parts of India, where the archetypical agendas of conversion and sanskritisation have either failed to deliver social justice and dignity or could not simply appeal to the local Dalit population.

scholarly journals Investigating Social Justice Topics in Reading Texts of English Textbooks Used in China and Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
English Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Societal Transformation ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
English Textbooks

English language teaching (ELT) plays a vital role in promoting social equality and societal transformation. Thus, social justice education has been given attention as one of ELT purposes. Textbooks, as the most significant teaching materials of English teachers, pose significant effects on English learners’ awareness of social justice issues that touch upon their daily lives. However, there is little empirical research investigating integrated social justice topics in ELT textbooks. This study addressed the gap through identifying and comparing social justice topics of grade 10 English textbooks used in Chinese and German high school classrooms. Results of this study revealed that German English textbooks encompassed a much more diversity of social justice topics than Chinese English textbooks. Besides, this study offered a significant capacity for English textbooks to stimulate English learners’ social responsibility and awareness of social justice. This study has implications for improving social justice education in the ELT classroom.

scholarly journals Fairness, liberty and psychiatry

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Ikkos
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Retributive Justice ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Civil Justice ◽  
Fair Shares

According to Beauchamp & Childress (2001) the fundamental principles of biomedical ethics include ‘justice'. But how do we approach ‘justice'? Justice may be thought of in relation to an individual or society. An individual may be just or unjust. Justice in society may be thought of as ‘retributive justice’ (fair punishment), ‘civil justice’ (fair recompense), ‘distributive justice’ (fair shares) or ‘social justice’ (a fair social contract for citizens of a society).

A Framework Convention on Global Health: Social Justice Lite, or a Light on Social Justice?

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 580-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Burris ◽  
Evan D. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
History Of Public Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relations Of Power

A decade ago, Jonathan Mann made a powerful case that human rights could provide a vocabulary and mode of analysis for understanding and advancing health. He made the case well, and put the idea into inspired practice, but the idea was neither new nor his alone. The idea that social justice — and henceforth in this article we will use that term loosely (and with obvious imprecision) to embrace goods like human rights, social equality, and distributive justice — was intrinsically important to health resonated with the social epidemiology already gathering force (not to mention an enduring theme running through the history of public health work). That social structure and relations of power explain a great deal about the level and distribution of population health was implicit in the work of pioneers like Geoffrey Rose, evident in Marmot’s seminal Whitehall studies, explicit in the writings of Mervyn Susser, and the main thrust of scholars like Nancy Krieger and Meredeth Turshen. Although researchers tend to avoid using a term with such normative weight, it is safe to say that Mann — and Susser, and Marmot and Krieger among others — were right: social justice is central to the proper understanding of health.

scholarly journals Is age discrimination a less serious form of discrimination?

Legal Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-549
Author(s):  
Stuart Goosey
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Age Discrimination ◽  
Differential Treatment ◽  
Inequality Of Opportunity ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Social Worth ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe UK courts and the CJEU have often treated age discrimination as a less serious form of discrimination. This is reflected in the courts’ reluctance to offer rigorous scrutiny when evaluating whether age-differential treatment is objectively justified under anti-discrimination law. Further, a number of judges have asserted that age discrimination must be understood as different to other forms of discrimination, such as race or sex discrimination. This paper argues that age discrimination is not fundamentally different or prima facie less serious than other forms of discrimination. Age discrimination can undermine the same principles that paradigm forms of discrimination also undermine, including: creating inequality of opportunity by disadvantaging people because of a trait that is outside a person's control; undermining social equality by creating a hierarchy of social status between different groups; violating autonomy by diminishing people's capacity to have control over their lives; and communicating disrespect by conveying that particular groups have a diminished moral or social worth. It follows, contrary to the approach of much of the case law, that the courts should offer rigorous scrutiny of age-differential treatment to identify these harms and only permit age distinctions that are strictly tailored to enhance equality or other important values.

scholarly journals Sinkronisasi Ekonomi Pancasila Dan Ekonomi Islam

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali Akbar ◽  
Moh. Idil Ghufron
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Data Content ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The One ◽  
Holy Book

AbstractThis study discusses the concept of Pancasila economics and Islamiceconomics which have basic and not conflicting similarities. Both of theseeconomic concepts share the goal of realizing social justice for allIndonesian people and social equality in prosperity and prosperity asstated in the five precepts of the Pancasila, as well as imbued with the firstprinciple of the One Godhead Pancasila as its basis.In this study also explained that between the Pancasila economicconcepts and Islamic economics are two economic concepts whose basicprinciples, characteristics and systems are in accordance with theteachings in the Qur'an which is the holy book of Muslims. So that this canstrengthen the confidence of the Indonesian people to not hesitate toimplement the Pancasila economy which is the noble heritage of thefounding fathers of the nation.The method used in this study is library research, which refers to primalmaterials from two components which are the subject of discussion,namely the study of Pancasila economics and Islamic economics. Andadded with other books relating to the problems studied. While the writingmethod used is descriptive analytical, namely by collecting actualinformation in detail and thoroughly from the data obtained, to thendescribe the exact problem under study, then analyze it directly to becompiled as needed in this study by using data content analysis analysis.Kata Kunci: Ekonomi, Pancasila, Islam, Al-Qur‟an, Keadilan,Kesejahteraan.

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