Format:
1 online resource (457 pages)
ISBN:
9780511156663
Content:
This book describes how a concern for justice affects people's judgements and behaviours.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Overview of the Volume -- 2. Pursuing the Justice Motive -- The Personal Contract: Giving Up the Pleasure Principle for the Reality Principle -- Justice Takes More Forms than "Equity" -- Creating a Meaningful Stable World Generates Three Basic Cognitive-Affective Templates: Identity, Unit, Non-Unit -- The Effects of Later Experiences: Separating and Reintegrating "Person" and "Process" -- Some Hunches about How "Is" Becomes "Ought" -- In Summary: Basic Outline of the Justice Motive -- Rediscovering Social Norms: Status Roles and Self-Interest -- How Do Social Norms and Psychological Processes Appear in Peoples Reactions? -- Equating Justice Motivation with Role-Playing Societal Norms: Errors in Contemporary Research -- The Family Crisis of Alzheimer's-Generated Dependency -- Extending Justice Motive Theory to Family Dynamics in a Continuing Crisis of Parental Dependency -- The Puzzle of the Contented Elderly: Understanding the Difference Between Pain and Suffering -- The Heroic Motive: Or, How I Almost Got My Nose Broken -- Justice and Victims in the New Economy -- Coping with Undeserved Job Loss and Downward Mobility -- The Peripatetic Entrepreneur: Creating the International Journal and the Society Devoted to Justice Research -- And Now… -- REFERENCES -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE JUSTICE MOTIVE -- 3. Doing Justice to the Justice Motive -- Justice as a Normative Standard -- The Justice Motive -- Is the Prescriptive Nature of Justice Represented in Rational Choice Analyses? -- Justice as an End or Justice as a Means? -- The Justice Motive as a Primary or "Primordial" Motive -- Traps of Reductionism -- Empirical Evidence of a Primordial Justice Motive -- The Construction of Justice -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521802154
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521802154
Additional Edition:
Print version The Justice Motive in Everyday Life
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=201903
