‘Lethal discrimination’, ideology and social justice

Gender representation and social justice: Ideology, methodology and smoke-screens

A number of researchers have provided an overview of the progress of research focusing on gender and educational leadership/management in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Bjork, 2000; Blackmore, 2006; Shakeshaft, 1993, 1999; Tallerico & Blount, 2004; Zheng, 1999). Shakeshaft (1999 p. 522) casts descriptive studies of representation generally ‘documenting the absence of women’ as an ear...

Discrimination of gays and lesbians: a social justice perspective.

The existence of discrimination against America's gay and lesbian citizens is widely supported in the research literature of many disciplines. This article provides a specific analysis of this discrimination and demonstrates the stark contrast between the discrimination of gays and lesbians in American society and the social justice concepts of equality and fairness. The works of Rawls, and lat...

The Chapters Prejudice and Discrimination Social Interactions the Justice System

If you look in the dictionary under policy, public policy , or social policy, you find definitions that amount to the following: a system of regulatory measures, laws, principles, funding priorities, guidelines and interventions promulgated by a person, group, or government for the changing, maintenance or creation of living conditions that are conducive to human welfare. Mostly what these meas...

Social Structure and Ideology Critique

A study of the science of man is inseparable from an examination of the options between which men must choose. This means that we can speak here not only of error, but of illusion. We speak of ‘illusion’ when we are dealing with something of greater substance than error, [it is] error which in a sense builds a counterfeit reality of its own . . . [Such illusions] are more than errors in this se...

Ideology and Criminal Justice Policy: Some Current Issues