Culture Wars and Social Justice: Social Justice

On Social Justice and Gramsci

Justice

Fair treatment of all under the law.

Social Justice

Fair treatment for all persons in a context wider than is encompassed by current law. Equity on all fronts.

Distributive Justice

• How a society distributes benefits/burdens among members.

• Social contract and recognition of each other’s rights and humanity.

• Reallocation of resources to create equal access.

Retributive Justice

• Redistribution of resources and redressing of historical and persisting inequalities and wrongs.

Restorative Justice

• Resolve long-standing conflicts through conflict resolution and increased understanding

• Engages offenders and survivors in process of mediation.

• Usually: public accountability; payment of reparations.

Transformative Justice

• An approach to wrongdoing or harm that seeks to place conflict within its larger structural context.

• Only when addressing, recognizing, and reconfiguring inequalities and conflicts can transformative justice be possible.

• Dismantling the social mechanisms that helped make ineuqalities possible.

Social Justice and Other Spheres

• Religious and spiritual movements

• Social movements

• Socioeconomic movements

Hegemony

• Superstructure enforced by the base and forms the base.

• Cultural/ideological sphere that reinforces the consent of the masses and security of the elite.