SOCY09001 2022 Introduction to Social Justice Theory

The aim of this module is to introduce learners to core theories in the field of social justice and assess their application to contemporary contexts in social care. Learners study the development of social justice theory, and will develop the skills to critically analysis of the range of social justice theories and examine their contribution of conceptualisations of recognition, redistribution, capabilities, rights and fairness, to various practice settings such as disability, family support and children/young people.

Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

The compelling and provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark Mazower Shortlisted for the RUSI 2013 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military LiteratureIn 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states changing sides, doing deals and betraying one another, a new, collegial 'Concert of Europe' would ensure that the brutal chaos of the Napoleonic Wars never happened again.Mark Mazower's remarkable new book recreates two centuries of international government - the struggle to spread values and build institutions to bring order to an anarchic and dangerous state system.

In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism--a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state--became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar United States and Britain.d Britain.

In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Professor Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth, and the spread of empathy over the centuries.

In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements that were created by marginal and excluded groups, including women, African Americans, and American Indians, as well as gays and lesbians. Young argues that by assuming a homogeneous public, democratic theorists fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms. Consequently, theorists do not adequately address the problem of an inclusive participatory framework. Basing her vision of the good society on the culturally plural networks of contemporary urban life, Young makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences. Danielle Allen's new foreword contextualizes Young's work and explains how debates surrounding social justice have changed since and been transformed by the original publication of Justice and the Politics of Difference.

Jacobin legacy: the origins of social justice -- National welfare and the universal declaration -- FDR's second bill -- Globalizing welfare after empire -- Basic needs and human rights -- Global ethics from equality to subsistence -- Human rights in the neoliberal maelstrom

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did rights come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others, who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of rights we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.

Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good? Amid negative emotions endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in loveintense attachments outside our controlcan foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy.

Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.

Cray, G. Burchardt, T. and D. Gordon (2008) Social Justice and Public Policy-seeking fairness in diverse societies. Bristol: Policy Press

Frazer N. (1996) Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation THE TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES Stanford University April 30–May 2

Fraser, N. (1997). Justice interruptus: critical reflections on the "postsocialist" condition. New York: Routledge

Honneth, A. (2003) Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange, co-authored with Nancy Fraser New York London: Verso.

Miller, D. (1999) Principles of social justice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Nussbaum, M. C. (2000) Women and human development. The capabilities approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Nussbaum, M. (2003) Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and social justice. Feminist Economics, 9(2–3), 33–59.

Nussbaum, M. C. (2011) Creating capabilities. The human development approach. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Okin Moller S. (1989) Justice, Gender and The Family. New York: Basic Books, Inc.

Parekh, B. (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan

Payne. M. (2014) Social Justice and Social Care in Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice (ed) M. Reisch. Oxon: Routledge

Rawls, J. (1999). A theory of justice (Revised edition). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Sen, A. (1979) Equality of what? The Tanner lecture on human values. California: Stanford University.

Sen, A. (1999) Development as freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Young, I. M. (1990) Justice and the politics of difference. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Equality and Social Justice Ireland Website: http://www.equalityandsocialjustice.com/campaigns.php

Hanlon N. (2009) Valuing Equality in Social Care  availble online at http://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1116&context=ijass

Vincent de Paul Website http://www.svp.ie/Social-Justice.aspx

Social Justice Ireland website http://www.socialjustice.ie/