SOCY 230 Lecture Notes - Norm (Social), Procedural Justice, Distributive Justice
12 Mar 2014
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Plato: justice is in essence everyone performing their roles. John stuart mill: justice is that which leads to the greatest good for the greatest number. > these guys do not have a lot in uence on social psychological treatment on justice. Aristotle: there is justice when people receive rewards in proportion to what they deserve. > problem: how do you gure out what people deserve who gets to choose it. Locke: justice is a social arrangement in which people share perceptions about how rewards should be distributed. Distributive justice concerns whether the bene ts and burdens people receive are fair whether got what deserved. Procedural justice concerns whether the methods used to determine distributions are fair whether the process is just. Social psychological approaches to distributive justice treat these evaluation as either an end in themselves or a means to an end.
