(In)Equality and (In)Justice
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Data de Publicação: | 2016 |
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Título da fonte: | Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online) |
Texto Completo: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/civitas/article/view/23118 |
Resumo: | Understanding the connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution –the mean, median, and variance–across a comprehensive set of inequality measures and a substantial starter set of just reward scenarios. This work shows that there is no general necessary connection between inequality and justice. There is, however, a striking pattern in some situations: as economic inequality increases, the average of the justice evaluations moves deeper into the territory of unjust underreward, and the distribution stretches outward, increasing the gulf between underrewarded and overrewarded and hollowing out the middle class. |
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(In)Equality and (In)Justice(Des)Igualdade e (In)JustiçaInequality. Justice. Fairness. Probability distributions. Measures of inequality and of justice and fairness.Social stratification and social cohesionDesigualdade. Justiça. Equidade. Distribuições de probabilidade. Medidas de desigualdade e de justiça e equidade.Understanding the connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution –the mean, median, and variance–across a comprehensive set of inequality measures and a substantial starter set of just reward scenarios. This work shows that there is no general necessary connection between inequality and justice. There is, however, a striking pattern in some situations: as economic inequality increases, the average of the justice evaluations moves deeper into the territory of unjust underreward, and the distribution stretches outward, increasing the gulf between underrewarded and overrewarded and hollowing out the middle class. Compreender a conexão entre desigualdade e justiça é importante porque a justiça é classicamente considerado como a primeira linha de defesa contra o autointeresse e a desigualdade. Na ausência de uma ligação forte e clara entre desigualdade e justiça, o senso de justiça não iria despertar para exercer a sua persuasão moral, não importa quão grande a desigualdade ou o quão rápido o seu crescimento. Neste trabalho analisamos as ligações entre desigualdade econômica e três parâmetros da distribuição de avaliação de justiça – média, mediana e variância – através de um conjunto abrangente de medidas de desigualdade e um conjunto inicial substantivo de cenários de justa recompensa. Este trabalho mostra que não há nenhuma conexão geral necessária entre desigualdade e justiça. Há, no entanto, um padrão marcante em algumas situações: com o aumento da desigualdade econômica, a média das avaliações de justiça se move mais profundamente no território de injustamente sub-recompensado, e a distribuição se estende para fora, aumentando o abismo entre sub-recompensado e super-recompensado, esvaziando as categorias intermediárias.Editora da Pucrs - ediPUCRS2016-08-31info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/civitas/article/view/2311810.15448/1984-7289.2016.2.23118Civitas: journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): Inequalities, stratification and social justice; 189-217Civitas: revista de Ciências Sociais; Vol. 16 Núm. 2 (2016): Desigualdades, estratificação e justiça social; 189-217Civitas: revista de Ciências Sociais; v. 16 n. 2 (2016): Desigualdades, estratificação e justiça social; 189-2171984-72891519-608910.15448/1984-7289.2016.2reponame:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)instname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)instacron:PUC_RSenghttps://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/civitas/article/view/23118/14780Copyright (c) 2016 Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociaishttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessJasso, Guillermina2017-02-22T17:41:22Zoai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/23118Revistahttps://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/civitas/oaiPRIhttp://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/civitas/oaicivitas@pucrs.br1984-72891519-6089opendoar:2017-02-22T17:41:22Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)false |
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(In)Equality and (In)Justice (Des)Igualdade e (In)Justiça |
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(In)Equality and (In)Justice Jasso, Guillermina Inequality. Justice. Fairness. Probability distributions. Measures of inequality and of justice and fairness. Social stratification and social cohesion Desigualdade. Justiça. Equidade. Distribuições de probabilidade. Medidas de desigualdade e de justiça e equidade. |
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(In)Equality and (In)Justice |
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Jasso, Guillermina |
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Inequality. Justice. Fairness. Probability distributions. Measures of inequality and of justice and fairness. Social stratification and social cohesion Desigualdade. Justiça. Equidade. Distribuições de probabilidade. Medidas de desigualdade e de justiça e equidade. |
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Inequality. Justice. Fairness. Probability distributions. Measures of inequality and of justice and fairness. Social stratification and social cohesion Desigualdade. Justiça. Equidade. Distribuições de probabilidade. Medidas de desigualdade e de justiça e equidade. |
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Understanding the connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution –the mean, median, and variance–across a comprehensive set of inequality measures and a substantial starter set of just reward scenarios. This work shows that there is no general necessary connection between inequality and justice. There is, however, a striking pattern in some situations: as economic inequality increases, the average of the justice evaluations moves deeper into the territory of unjust underreward, and the distribution stretches outward, increasing the gulf between underrewarded and overrewarded and hollowing out the middle class. |
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Civitas: journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): Inequalities, stratification and social justice; 189-217 Civitas: revista de Ciências Sociais; Vol. 16 Núm. 2 (2016): Desigualdades, estratificação e justiça social; 189-217 Civitas: revista de Ciências Sociais; v. 16 n. 2 (2016): Desigualdades, estratificação e justiça social; 189-217 1984-7289 1519-6089 10.15448/1984-7289.2016.2 reponame:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online) instname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) instacron:PUC_RS |
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