This book discusses the social roots of injustice, obedience, and revolution in society. Barrington Moore, Jr. explores how social structures, political power, and economic inequality shape both obedient and rebellious behavior. Through historical and comparative analysis, Moore explains the conditions that make societies submit to oppressive authorities, as well as the factors that can trigger…
This in-depth report examines the activities of Ford-supported grantees in the area of law. Case studies from around the world showcase how law-based strategies can be used to further positive social change and advance human rights. Includes analyses of initiatives in China, the Philippines, Africa and other regions.
Justice and democracy have alternated as dominant themes in political philosophy over the last fifty years. Since it revival in the middle of the twentieth century, political philosophy has focused on first one and then the other of these two themes. Rarely, however, has it succeeded in holding them in joint focus. This volume attempts to remedy this by bringing together leading authors to cons…
Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice, by Kathryn Sorrells, introduces students to the complex relationships, structures, and contexts that shape intercultural communication in the new millennium. This book examines intercultural communication within the geopolitical, economic, and cultural context of globalization and offers a dynamic and complex understanding of cultur…
The main features of the just society, as they would be chosen by the unanimous, impartial, and fully informed judgment of its members, present a remarkable and simple meaningful structure. In this society, individuals' freedom is fully respected, and overall redistribution amounts to an equal sharing of individuals' different earnings obtained by the same limited 'equalization labour'. The con…
This collection of essays traces the development of a range of social ideas, then addresses questions about society and the international order. With its balanced inclusion of historical and contemporary selections, Social Ideals and Policies is the most comprehensive anthology available in social and political philosophy
This book contains: 1. Criminal justice in India 2. Miscarriage of justice 3. The police 4. Investigation of unnatural deaths 5. Testimonial compulsion 6. The courts 7. Public prosecutor 8. Bail 9. The golden thread 10. the trial 11. Punishment 12. Human rights
A lavish volume published to mark the first half-century of the Court. It provides a well-documented and abundantly illustrated retrospective of the Court's activities from its origins to the present day, and also investigates the history of the development of the law, from the early notions of justice and equity as they originated in municipal spheres to their assembling on an international le…
In recent decades a transformation has occurred in the relations between the states of Western Europe. The European Community has been central to this process of change. The importance of the Community is no more clearly seen than in the range of its policy interests and responsibilities. Agriculture, external trade, competition and, more recently, the drive to complete the internal market are …