This paper considers health inequalities through a social justice perspective. The authors draw on a variety of existing sources of evidence, including experiential, scientific and contextual knowledge. The authors work with NHS Health Scotland, a national Health Board working to reduce health inequalities and improve health. Working closely with the Scottish Government and with a variety of st...

On a summer afternoon in the late 1990s in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park, sociologist Bruce Western and his colleague Katherine Beckett engaged in a conversation that would change the course of their research. At the time, Western studied the social programs of European welfare states. Against the backdrop of a park that had seen a surge in drug dealing and homeless encampment in the 198...

In the present context of ‘get tough on crime’ and ‘back to criminal justice’ campaigns that continue to dominate political agendas throughout Australia, critics point to the inadequacy of ‘welfarist’ or reformist criminological and sociological theories that have informed interventions in the past, and reinforce the need for ‘retributive justice’ models of penal policy. This paper examines his...

the relationship between individual s perception of organizational justice and their social capital has been studied in this research. social capital analyzes with trust, involvement and civil leadership, giving and volunteering, informal social ties, diversity in friends. organizational justice divided in three dimensions: they are distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional jus...

Distributive justice concerns the fair, just or equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. These benefits and burdens span all dimensions of social life and assume all forms, including income, economic wealth, political power, taxation, work obligations, education, shelter, health care, military service, community involvement and religious activities. Thus, justice arguments are often invo...

the purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between organization justice & social loafing in melat bank employees of mazandaran province. statistical population includes 1100 personnel of melat bank in mazandaran province. according to krejcie & morgan (1970) table, the minimum statistical sample of this research should be 285 employees. the sampling method is random systema...