Towards a realist-informed integrated theory of justice

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dc.contributor.authorMolnar, Adam
dc.contributor.supervisorHier, Sean
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-02T18:11:37Z
dc.date.available2008-09-02T18:11:37Z
dc.date.copyright2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-09-02T18:11:37Z
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Sociologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractContemporary theoretical and political approaches have sought to integrate both a material politics of redistribution and a cultural politics of recognition into a relational theoretical framework. Such frameworks consider the intersecting ways individuals and groups suffer from over-determining social inequalities that are rooted in the economic, cultural and political orders of society. In this thesis, I identify approaches that seek to explain the intersection between economic, cultural, and political variables as “integrated” theories of justice. At the forefront of integrated approaches that have cut across disciplinary and epistemological divides, I critically engage with Nancy Fraser’s integrated theory of justice (1995, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005). I also examine similar, yet alternative approaches advanced by Jacinda Swanson (2005) and others that have attempted to reconcile the economy/culture/politics relationship. I argue that while integrated theories of social justice provide a correction to previous “reductionist” and “essentializing” theories of social justice, they do not go far enough to capture the over-determining interconnections between economics, politics, culture, and agency. As a result, they are unable to adequately address the complexity of social inequalities. To address this problem in the literature, I re-work integrated theories of social justice that attempt to reconcile the economy/culture/politics divide through an integration with a realist meta-theoretical approach. A realist approach offers several theoretical, methodological and political gains for recasting complex theories of social justice.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1106
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectcritical realismen_US
dc.subjectsocial justiceen_US
dc.subjectnancy fraseren_US
dc.subjectpolitical representationen_US
dc.subjectsocial inequalityen_US
dc.subjectagencyen_US
dc.subjectsocial theoryen_US
dc.subjectpolitical theoryen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Sociologyen_US
dc.titleTowards a realist-informed integrated theory of justiceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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