Full Description
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 and required resources. In this book, Okosun claims that there has been a diminution of the pursuit and practice of social justice. Okosun explores impediments to the pursuit of distributive justice to show how social arrangements, ideologies, and specific belief patterns play significant roles in trumping social justice and increasing global suffering. Instead, these different powerful social influences augment individualistic aspirations, which detract from the critical, local, and global advancement of the human condition. Okosun argues that critical questioning about their position and role in the process of destitution-making has the potential to move people toward each other in view of collaborative local and global transformation.
Contents
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Stating the Problem
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Initial Concern
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Negating the Lessons of History
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Struggle for a Response
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Ghetto Construction and Entrenchment
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Marginalization in Style
Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Social Justice, then and Now
Chapter 10 Chapter 8: The Diminution of Distributive Justice
Chapter 11 Chapter 9: Social Justice versus Modernity and Rationality
Chapter 12 Chapter 10: Social Justice and Social Belief Patterns
Chapter 13 Chapter 11: The Advantage of Ambivalent Questioning
Chapter 14 Chapter 12: Reclaiming and Enhancing Social Justice
Chapter 15 Chapter 13: A Social Justice Proposal
Chapter 16 Conclusion
Chapter 17 References
Chapter 18 Index
