Social justice and increasing global destitution / T.Y. Okosun.

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"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 require...

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Main Author: Okosun, T. Y.
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Social justice.
Civil society.
Human rights.
Physical Description:viii, 217 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Stating the problem
  • Initial concern
  • Negating the lessons of history
  • Struggle for a response
  • Ghetto construction and entrenchment
  • Marginalization in style
  • Social justice, then and now
  • The diminution of distributive justice
  • Social justice versus modernity and rationality
  • Social justice and social belief patterns
  • The advantage of ambivalent questioning
  • Reclaiming and enhancing social justice
  • A social justice proposal.