| Values, Achievement, and Justice 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Feather, Norman T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306461552 ISBN-13: 9780306461552 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1999 Annotation: This book relates judgements of deservingness' or undeservingness' to perceived responsibility, values, liking relations, and ingroup/outgroup relations. The book presents a social-cognitive process model concerned with how people react to offenses and to the perpetrators of offenses. Studies concerned with achievement outcomes and with retributive justice, and ways in which the theoretical approach might be further developed, are described. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 303.372 |
| LCCN: 99037491 |
| Series: Critical Issues in Social Justice |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When we say that a person deserves a positive or negative outcome, we are making a judgment that is influenced by a number ofvariables. We would certainly take into account whether the person was resp- siblefortheoutcomeorwhethertheoutcomecouldbeattributedtoother sources. We would also consider whether the actions that led to the positive or negative outcome were actions that we would value or - tionsthatwouldmeetwithourdisapproval.Wemightalsobeinfluenced by the person's own positive or negative characteristics, by ourkno- edgeofwhatkinds ofgroups orsocialcategoriesthepersonbelongedto, and by whether we like or dislike the person. Information about these differentvariableshastobe consideredandintegratedin someway, and our judgment of deservingness follows that psychological process, a process that involves the cognitive-affective system. Values, Achievements, and Justice is about deservingness and about the variables that affect the judgments we make. I use the term "dese- ingness" although I could equally have referred to "deservedness" or "desert." The terms are all virtually equivalent in meaning, although dictionaries may separate them by using fine distinctions. I assume that the sorts of variables I have just described will affect ourjudgments of deservingness, and I further assume that a judgment of deservingness is most likely to occur when these variables fit together in a consistent, harmonious, and balanced way. |
