From the Local to the Global Theories and Key Issues in Global Justice /
"“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi “Thought without practice is blind; practice without thought is empty.” –Kwame Nkrumah These quotes aptly capture the spirit, the essence, and reach o...
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2017.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface
- Arrangement of This Book
- Introduction
- Knowledge, Knowing, and Social Justice
- Knowledge, Power, and Powerlessness.-Types of Knowledge
- Knowing: Knowledge Acquisition
- Sources of Knowledge
- Ways of Knowing; What Is Indigenous Knowledge?
- Functions of IK
- Who Are the Indigenous People?
- Western System of Knowledge.-Common Grounds
- What Is Critical Thinking? Why Do We Need It?.-Defining Critical Thinking
- Characteristics of Critical Thinking.-Characteristics of the Critical Thinker
- Critical Sociological Thinking
- Critical Theory and Critical Sociology
- What Is Critical Sociology?
- A Brief History of Critical Sociology
- Critical Sociology, the Sociological Consciousness and Sociological Imagination
- Critical Thinking Toolkit
- Operative Concepts and Recurring Themes
- Intersectionality
- Positionality
- Types of Ideologies
- The Sociological Imagination
- From the Local to the Global, From the Global to the Local
- Theory of the Duality of Structure and Agency
- Anthony Giddens’ Structuration
- Social Reality Construction and Global Social Justice; Social Constructionist Theory: Vygotsky’s Seminal Work; Corporate Crime and Street Crime
- The Sociological Imagination and Justice in Local and Global Contexts.-Social Justice and the Social Construction of Inequality and Difference
- Two Types of Privilege
- The Essentialist Orientations versus Constructionist Orientations
- The Social Construction of Difference
- Types of Oppression
- How Do We Construct the ‘Other’?.-Invalidation Myths
- Invalidation Ideologies: Weapons of Discrimination, Subordination and Extermination
- Stereotyping, Prejudicing, and Framing; Prejudice, Ignorance and Stereotyping; The Sociology of Human Rights and Social Justice
- Obstacles to Becoming ‘Good’
- The Human Rights Approach
- Collective versus Individual Rights
- Foundation of Human Rights
- Central Tenets of the Human Rights Approach
- The Development of International Human Rights Covenants
- Debate over the Universality of Human Rights
- Murumba’s Model of Human Rights
- Human Rights and Human Obligations
- Justifiable Restrictions
- What Is Social Justice?
- The History of the “Social” in Social Justice
- Definitions
- Basic Principles of Justice in the Just Society
- Social Justice and Human Rights
- Kinds of Rights
- Divisions and Types of Justice
- The Laws of Social Justice
- Characteristics of Social Justice
- Theories of Social Justice
- The Sociological Foundations of Social Justice
- The Contribution of Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
- Relationship between Crime, Law and Social Solidarity
- Transition in Types of Justice.-Mechanical Solidarity; Collective Conscience; The Contribution of Karl Marx
- Karl Marx and His Critique of Capitalism; Forces and Relations of Production
- Neo-Marxist Theorists and Social Structure.-Contribution of Herbert Spencer (1820–1903): Evolutionism and the Survival of the Fittest
- The Contribution of Max Weber
- Types of Rationality
- The Irrationality of Rationality
- Comparing Marx to Weber
- Political Theories of Social Justice
- Sources of Social Justice
- Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
- Social Contract; John Locke (1632–1704)
- The Sanctity of Private Property
- Political Society.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
- Contemporary Theories of Social Justice
- Communitarian Concept of Justice
- The Right Based Theory of John Rawls
- The Principles of Justice
- Justice as Fairness: Rawls’ Social Contract Theory
- Rawls’ Distributive Justice Theory
- Rawls’ Principle of Redress
- Walzer’s Communitarian Theory of Social Justice; Social Goods
- The Theory of Complex Equality
- Gender Theories of Justice
- Feminism
- Goals of Feminism
- The Waves of Feminism
- First Wave
- Second Wave
- Third Wave
- Theoretical Schools of Feminism
- Marxist/Socialist Feminism
- Radical Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Summary
- Queer Theory
- Post/Anti-Colonial, Anti-Racist Theories of Justice
- Introduction
- Theorizing the Effects of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalist Relations: Modernization, Dependency, and World-System Theories
- Modernization Theory.-Dependency Theory
- The Modern World-System Theory
- Postcolonialism.-Franz Fanon
- From Neo-Colonialism to Neo-Liberal Globalization.-Proposed Solutions
- Critical Race Theory
- Critical Race Theory and the Mechanism of Denial
- Postmodern Theories of Social Justice.-Postmodernism
- Postmodernity and Postmodernism
- Critique of Postmodernism
- The Poststructuralism of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault
- Michel Foucault
- Madness and Reason
- Prohibited Words.-Will to Truth
- Discourse and Power
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Economic Theories of Social Justice
- Economic Justice and Capitalism-Socialism Divide
- Principles of Capitalism
- Critique of Capitalism.-Positivities of Capitalism
- Keynesian State/Corporate Capitalism (1930s–1970s): The Era of Intense Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political Changes
- Militarization of the World: Military Industrial Complex, Educational Security State, National Security State, and Industrial-Consumer Society; Neo-Liberal/Corporate Capitalism (1960s-Present); Socialism; Principles of Socialism; The Role of Government.-Welfare State; The Rise of the Welfare State; Globalization and Social Justice
- Globalization, Glocalism, and Glocalization
- Distinguishing between Globalism and Globalization
- The Four Dimensions of Globalization
- Globalization from the Above and Globalization from the Below
- Economic Globalization
- Political Globalization
- Cultural Globalization
- Supporters of Globalization.-Detractors of Globalization
- The Ideology of Globalization: The Neo-Liberal Discourse
- Characteristics of Neo-Liberalism
- Are Neo-Liberal Policies Hegemonic?
- The History of Globalization.-Globalization and Global (In)Justice; Women, Slavery and Poverty; Health
- Hunger, Malnutrition and Famine
- Growth
- The Global Economy
- Debt Crisis (1982 to Present)
- Neoliberal Diagnosis.-Neoliberal Prescription
- Failed Growth Policies
- Revised Poverty Agenda – 1990
- Alternative Global Equity Agenda – 2005
- The Role of Transnational Corporation in Globalization and the Social Justice Agenda; Neo-Liberal Discourse as a Defense Global Corporatization
- The Global Tentacles of Colonialism, Neocolonialism and Neoliberal Globalization
- The Global Economy; Debt Crisis (1982 to Present)
- Neoliberal Prescription
- Failed Growth Policies.-Alternative Global Equity Agenda – 2005
- The Role of Transnational Corporation in Globalization and the Social Justice Agenda
- Race, Racialization and Racism; Does Race Matter?; The Myth of “Race” and the Reality of Racism; What Is “Race”? What Is Racialization? What Is Racism?; The Social-Historical Construction of Race
- Race as a Modern Idea; Futile Attempts at Classification of “Races”
- In the Eye of the Beholder: Your “Black” Person Is My “White” Person
- Debunking “Race”: We’re All Mongrels!
- Darwin, Smith, and Spencer: Race, Europe and Social Darwinism; Christianity, Eurocentrism and Race
- Racism Continues to Thrive
- What Is Racism?
- Old versus New Racism
- New Racism
- Forms of Racism Today
- The New Racisms: Racism in the 21st Century
- Combating Racism through Education and Praxis
- Why Does Racism Persist When Many People Know It’s Bad?
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Global Human Relations and Social Justice
- Appendix
- Glossary of Key Terms
- References.
