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Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research

  • Compiles the research of prominent scholars of the International Society for Social Justice Research

  • Provides a platform for interdisciplinary justice scholars

  • Embodies the past, current and future trends of justice research

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Past, Present, and Future of Social Justice Theory and Research

    • Clara Sabbagh, Manfred Schmitt
    Pages 1-11
  3. Disciplinary Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Philosophy of Justice: Extending Liberal Justice in Space and Time

      • Lukas H. Meyer, Pranay Sanklecha
      Pages 15-35
    3. Sociology of Justice

      • Stefan Liebig, Carsten Sauer
      Pages 37-59
    4. Psychology of Justice

      • Mario Gollwitzer, Jan-Willem van Prooijen
      Pages 61-82
    5. The Economics of Justice

      • James Konow, Lars Schwettmann
      Pages 83-106
  4. The Justice Motive

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. Justice and Self-Interest

      • Leo Montada, Jürgen Maes
      Pages 109-125
    3. The Justice Motive: History, Theory, and Research

      • John H. Ellard, Annelie Harvey, Mitchell J. Callan
      Pages 127-143
    4. Belief in a Just World

      • Carolyn L. Hafer, Robbie Sutton
      Pages 145-160
    5. Justice Sensitivity

      • Anna Baumert, Manfred Schmitt
      Pages 161-180
  5. Forms of Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
    2. Distributive Justice

      • Guillermina Jasso, Kjell Y. Törnblom, Clara Sabbagh
      Pages 201-218
    3. Procedural Justice

      • Riël Vermunt, Herman Steensma
      Pages 219-236
    4. Retributive Justice

      • Michael Wenzel, Tyler G. Okimoto
      Pages 237-256
    5. Restorative Justice

      • Ronald L. Cohen
      Pages 257-272
  6. Spheres of Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
    2. The Psychology of Social Justice in Political Thought and Action

      • Tobias Rothmund, Julia C. Becker, John T. Jost
      Pages 275-291

About this book

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.  

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

    Clara Sabbagh

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

    Manfred Schmitt

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research

  • Editors: Clara Sabbagh, Manfred Schmitt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3216-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3215-3Published: 09 February 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8000-0Published: 31 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3216-0Published: 08 February 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 504

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Policy

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Softcover Book USD 329.99
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