Toward a Just Social Order

✍ Scribed by Derek L. Phillips

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 471
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 99
• Edition: Course Book
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Derek Phillips presents a strong case for the importance of normative theories about the just social organization of society. Most sociologists urge the avoidance of value judgments, but Professor Phillips argues for a notion of a just social order that reflects a twin concern with explanatory and normative thinking.

Originally published in 1986.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Explanation and Evaluation
One. Toward a Just Social Order
Two. Justice and Social Order
II. Socialization
Introduction
Three. Socialization and Moral Learning
Four. Socialization and Children's Rights
Five. Socialization for the Just Social Order
III. Social Control
Introduction
Six. The Law and Moral Values
Seven. Law, Obligation, and Legitimacy
IV. The Economic Realm
Introduction
Eight. Competing Views of Economic Justice: Their Implications for Freedom and Weil-Being
Nine. The Realization of Freedom and Well-Being: Some Principles and Policies for a Just Social Order
Bibliography
Index