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SOC 2075: Models of Social and Economic Justice (3 cr.)

This course examines the range of questions about

what justice requires and permits, to which

alternative and incompatible answers are often

offered by contending philosophical, theological,

and sociological theories of justice. Among the

questions addressed are: Does justice permit gross

inequality of income and ownership? Does justice

require compensatory action to remedy inequalities

which are a result of past injustice, even if

those who pay the costs of such compensation had

no part in that injustice? Does justice permit or

require programs such as affirmative action and

acts of civil disobedience to correct past and

present injustice? Lectures, readings, research

and case studies are used to help students

differentiate between and decide among the claims

of rival accounts of justice which compete for our

moral, social, and political allegiance.

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