Social justice and increasing global destitution /

"Social justice has long been an aspect of the human experience. Communities sustain each other through its pursuit and practice, yet sometimes people require the assistance of a good government committed to a responsible public policy that supports every citizen's right to opportunities a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Okosun, T. Y.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2009.
Subjects:
Social justice.
Civil society.
Human rights.
Social Justice
Human Rights
Justice sociale.
Société civile.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Civil society
Human rights
Social justice
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
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Table of Contents:
  • Stating the problem
  • Initial concern
  • Negating the lessons of history
  • Struggle for a response
  • Ghetto construction and entrenchment
  • Marginalization in style
  • Social justice, then and now
  • The diminution of distributive justice
  • Social justice versus modernity and rationality
  • Social justice and social belief patterns
  • The advantage of ambivalent questioning
  • Reclaiming and enhancing social justice
  • A social justice proposal.

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