Social Justice In A Diverse Society

Tyler, Tom; Boeckmann, Robert J; Smith, Heather J; Huo, Yuen J

• List of Tables and Figures -- Part1 -- Introduction -- 1 The Psychology of Social Justice -- Justice as a Philosophical or Theological Concern -- Justice as a Subjective Issue -- What Is the Psychology of Social Justice About? -- Self-Interest, the Instrumental Model, and the Image of Human Nature -- The Framework of Social Justice Research -- The Field of Social Justice -- 2 Relative Deprivation -- Why Is Relative Deprivation Important? -- Clarifying the Meaning of Relative Deprivation -- Choice of Comparison Referent -- Comparisons with Oneself at Other Points in Time(Temporal Comparisons) -- Comparisons With Other People -- Individual Versus Group Relative Deprivation -- Conceptualizing Social Identities -- Multiple Sources of Comparison Information -- Cognitive Antecedents of Relative Deprivation -- Advantaged Groups -- Problems for the Future -- The Hedonic Treadmill -- The Missing Piece -- Part2 -- Is Justice Important to People's Feelings and Attitudes? -- 3 Distributive Justice -- Equity Theory -- The Criteria Used to Evaluate Distributive Justice -- Micro Versus Macro Distributive Justice -- The Domain of Distributive Justice Concerns -- 4 Procedural Justice -- ProceduralJustice Research -- Implications for Future Procedural Justice Research -- Research Findings -- Social Policy Support -- A Broader Procedural Justice Framework -- Legitimacy -- Procedure and the Effective Functioning of Society -- Procedural Justice Criteria -- Micro Versus Macro Procedural Justice -- Societal Implications -- 5 Retributive Justice -- What Is Retribution? -- America as a Retributive Society -- Why Are People Punitive? -- Retribution in the Future: Will the Future Become the Past? -- Retribution as a Basic Human Motivation -- Retributive Justice in Organized Groups -- The Need for Punishing Rule Breakers -- Rule Typologies -- Retributive Justice Criteria -- Micro and Macro Retributive Justice -- Part3 -- Behavioral Reactions to Justice and Injustice -- 6 Psychological Versus Behavioral Responses to Injustice -- Distributive Justice -- Procedural Justice -- Retributive Justice -- 7 Behavioral Reactions to Injustice -- A General Model of Responses to Grievances -- Possible Behaviors -- Individual-Level Responses to Injustice -- Group-Level Responses to Injustice -- Collective Behaviors Following Rule Breaking -- Naming, Blaming, and Claiming -- When Will People Act Collectively? -- Distributive and Procedural Injustice, -- Intervening Cognitions Between Perceptions of Injustice and Collective Behavior -- Rule Breaking Versus Rule Following -- Part4 -- Why Do People Care About Justice? -- 8 The Nature of the Justice Motive -- Theories ofJustice -- Evidence from Research -- Policy Implications -- The Relationship of Procedural and Retributive Justice, -- Part5 -- When Does Justice Matter? -- 9 Social Structural Influences -- Justice as a Basic Motive -- The Scope of Justice -- Social Context Effects -- 10 Culture -- A Universal Perspective -- A Culture Specific Perspective -- Empirical Issues -- Evidence from Empirical Research -- The Social Construction of Justice Beliefs -- Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Social Justice -- Identification -- References -- About the Book and Authors -- Index.