Broschiertes Buch

Solidarity and Social Justice in Contemporary Societies

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Inequalities

Herausgegeben: Yerkes, Mara A.; Bal, Michèlle

Beschreibung

This textbook will familiarize readers with some of the most pressing solidarity and social justice issues in contemporary societies. Ongoing and emerging inequalities along the lines of gender, age, socio-economic status, ethnic background, and sexual orientation challenge the solidarity underlying societies, resulting in complex questions of social justice. Moreover, several global challenges, such as digitalization, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic challenge solidarity and social justice in new ways. How do societies respond to these enduring, growing or changing inequalities? Do these challenges lead to an expansion or an erosion of solidarity, in an 'us versus them' rhetoric? And to what extent do societies differ in their social justice values and hence the acceptance of social inequality? Taking a sociological, psychological, and political philosophical approach to these topics, this book offers state-of-the art theoretical and empirical contributions from globally-recognized scholars in sociology, psychology, and political philosophy, providing a unique interdisciplinary approach to understanding solidarity and social justice in response to social inequalities in contemporary European societies.

Autor

Mara A. Yerkes (Associate Professor) and Michèlle Bal (Assistant Professor) both work at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Dr. Yerkes has extensive expertise on comparative social policies and social inequalities, and Dr. Bal is an expert on perceptions of justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-93794-2
• 1st ed. 2022
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9783030937942
• ISBN-10: 3030937941
• Artikelnr.: 63029018

Rezensionen

I will be using Solidarity and Social Justice in Contemporary Societies in teaching a couple of chapters have already made their way into my lecture notes as this review was being prepared, and will appear on the reading list once my institution s library has acquired an ebook. Overall, the editors and contributors deserve credit to be a useful text to a wide range of socio-legal educators, including those with an interest in poverty, social security and the welfare state. (Mark Simpson, Journal of Social Security Law, Vol. 31 (3), 2024)