Essays on Justice And Equality

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Social justice has always acted and will act as the most important indicator of the effectiveness of social development, being one of the fundamental bases of civilization and progress. Social justice is the foundation of any developed society, and it determines many aspects of the interaction between people within the state and society. Justice is category of a moral-legal and socio-political consciousness that is both an inalienable natural right of a person. Understanding social justice changes over time and depends on the specific social conditions in which people live. The content of this concept is in line between the ...

Does History Matter?

Social ideas and ideals of humanity pass through US history. It is in the struggle for social justice and equality finds its most vivid expression of the social nature of man. As in public life, and accordingly, in the social sciences, the problems in the social justice and equality are inseparable, they are often mixed, identified, although in reality each of these concepts has its own special meaning, its content. Social justice and social equality are the objective quality of social forms of relations of society and citizens. Sami social networks are a set of relations between people as ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s historical speech “I Have a Dream” has been a pivotal moment in history for black America. As a leader of the Civil Rights movement, MLK had a great vision of justice and equality for black men, women, and children that had not been honored by white America. Despite the signing of the Proclamation of Emancipation a hundred years prior to MLK’s speech, black people still lived segregated and in oppression. It was MLK’s brave and courageous stance that empowered black people throughout America to begin the non-violent fight for what should have ...

The African American population had endured a long struggle for justice and equal rights. Having arrived in the United States as slaves, their struggle for equality in an all-white nation became a daunting task. The liberation and rights that are now enjoyed by the contemporary African-American population did not come at a low price. The focus of this essay is comparing some of the ideas espoused by the liberators of the African American people with those of Marcus Garvey. The Progressive Era was a crucial period in the quest to advance the rights of African-Americans. However, many of the ...

Cohen and Socialism I: Justice and Personal Behavior

- Who is G. A. Cohen? Gerald Allan (G.A.) "Jerry" Cohen (1941-2009) was raised in a communist family in Montreal, Canada. He later obtained his political philosophy there and then a doctorate in England. As professor at a university in Oxford, England, Cohen held analytic philosophical, Marxist, and egalitarian views. His notable ideas concern egalitarian ethos and strict difference principle. Some of Cohen’s works include a defense of Marxism, egalitarianism, justice, equality, socialism, as well as, other topics on moral and political philosophy. His political philosophical works, or refutations of others’ works, has been widely read, commented, critiqued and praised. Before ...

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The arts and culture are always the means through which everyone can relay their experience, master and form their identity and envisage their future. Culture and the arts have a constancy and variety that enables people in exploring their individual humanity and understanding of the whole society. Everyone needs the arts and culture in order for their lives to make sense and so that they can know themselves better. Further, the democracies in people’s societies need the arts. This is because they tend to make a civil society conscious while also stretching their imaginations. It is the arts that make ...

Overview

In the current society, wealth is considered as measure of power in which the people with the most wealth also have access to power and the ones with lesser wealth are stuck at the bottom of food chain. In the United States, the distribution of wealth is immensely unbalanced, but Americans strongly believes that wealth is evenly distributed among the people. If that is the case, then the United States shouldn’t be a Federal country in the first place; it could have been a Socialists state where there is no social divide in terms of wealth. However, it’s just a ...

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Making a difference between social development and economic development has proven to be considerably difficult for many people, including scholars. Similarly, people find difficulties in trying to establish the difference between social development and social change. While this has been the state of affairs for quite a long time, it still is difficult for the most learned people to differentiate social development from cultural development. Clearly, social development is a complicated concept. Scholars and authors have constantly given various definitions of social development. Even so, most of the scholars and social scientists agree on the indicators of social development. For instance, most ...

The Irish Department of Justice and Equality defines organised crime as “as an element of criminal activity carried out by criminal organizations that have as their main purpose the commission of one or more serious offences in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, financial or other material benefits.” When comparing organized crime to white-collar crime it immediately becomes obvious that these areas of crime over lap. One way that white-collar crime differs from organized crime is the organization itself, which can also involve individuals, companies or very ad hoc groups. . While some of the entities that commit white-collar crime ...