Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research

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The International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary justice scholars who are encouraged to present and exchange their ideas. This exchange has yielded a fruitful advance of theoretical and empirically-oriented justice research.

This volume substantiates this academic legacy and the research prospects of the ISJR in the field of justice theory and research. Included are themes and topics such as the theory of the justice motive, the mapping of the multifaceted forms of justice (distributive, procedural) and justice in context-bound spheres (e.g. non-humans). It presents a comprehensive "state of the art" overview in the field of justice research theory and it puts forth an agenda for future interdisciplinary and international justice research. It is worth noting that authors in this proposed volume represent ISJR's leading scholarship. Thus, the compilation of their research within a single framework exposes potential readers to high quality academic work that embodies the past, current and future trends of justice research.

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxvii

Past, Present, and Future of Social Justice Theory and Research

Disciplinary Approaches

Front Matter

Pages 13-13

Philosophy of Justice: Extending Liberal Justice in Space and Time

Pages 15-35

Sociology of Justice

Pages 37-59

Psychology of Justice

Pages 61-82

The Economics of Justice

Pages 83-106

The Justice Motive

Front Matter

Pages 107-107

Justice and Self-Interest

Pages 109-125

The Justice Motive: History, Theory, and Research

Pages 127-143

Belief in a Just World

Pages 145-160

Justice Sensitivity

Pages 161-180

Social-Cognitive and Motivational Processes Underlying the Justice Motive

Pages 181-198

Forms of Justice

Front Matter

Pages 199-199

Distributive Justice

Pages 201-218

Procedural Justice

Pages 219-236

Retributive Justice

Pages 237-256

Restorative Justice

Pages 257-272

Spheres of Justice

Front Matter

Pages 273-273

The Psychology of Social Justice in Political Thought and Action

Pages 275-291

Reviews

“I enjoyed reading–and learned a great deal from–nearly every chapter. … I give much credit and appreciation to the editors for assembling a remarkably diverse set of authors, and of course to the authors themselves for their efforts to balance breadth and depth. Most of the readings are perfectly appropriate for assigning in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, and I can strongly recommend this collection to all scholars and practitioners working in social justice and related areas.” (Barry Markovsky, Social Justice Research, Vol. 30, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

University of Haifa Faculty of Education, Haifa, Israel

Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany

About the editors

Clara Sabbagh (PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is professor haver of sociology of education at the Department of Leadership & Policy in Education, University of Haifa, Israel. At the heart of her work lies an ongoing inquiry into key aspects of conceptions of social justice that underlie the basic structure of society. She is associate editor for the journal Social Justice Research and served as President of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) (2010-2012). Currently (2014-2018) she is President of the Social Psychology Research Committee (RC42) at the International Sociological Association. Sabbagh's Erdős number is 4.

Manfred Schmitt teaches Personality and Psychological Assessment at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Prior to his current affiliation, he was professor of Developmental Psychology (Saarbruecken), Statistics (Magdeburg), and Social Psychology (Trier). His research interests include emotion (guilt, shame, anger, jealousy, anxiety, disgust), social justice, personality and information processing, nonlinear person x situation interaction, objective personality testing, the joint impact of implicit and explicit dispositions on behavior, and the simultaneous modelling of traits and states. Manfred Schmitt has served as associate editor of Social Justice Research, Psychologische Rundschau, Diagnostica, the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and the European Journal of Personality.

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