[SOC 3740] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (71 pages long!)
7 Feb 2017
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Justice evaluating values of justice sociology. Justice definition: the moral assessment of good and bad things. Assigning good or bad to peoples behaviors, acts, law, decisions. Distribution and retribution it is achieved through these two philosophical concepts. Socially just in allocating resources to citizens in a community, society, or country. Equality it is allocated through equality. Because we want to take care of them and have them a part of society. We should all feel protected equally by the state. Welfare maximize the total welfare of citizens that they can purse their life in the same way as everyone else. Social contract we belong to this tradition. People give up wanting pleasure, in order to have social order. The belief that the state is there legitimately. Argued that we cannot have justice without fairness. Positions of power must be open to everyone under fair and equal opportunity. Utilitarianism rejected the notion of utilitarianism.
