Seminar series - Social justice and public policy
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Summary
This seminar series, will bring social scientists from various disciplines together with policy makers to exchange conceptual and empirical insights and to explore major questions arising for both from a focus on social justice. The objectives are to:
- examine the differences, similarities, tensions and complementarities between the ideas of social justice found in different disciplines
- investigate the implications of these ideas and the challenges for the formulation and implementation of public policy, especially with reference to reconciling tensions between distributional justice and claims based on cultural inequalities
- explore the boundaries between individual and collective responsibility
- identify opportunities and implications for theoretical scholarship and empirical research.
Outline Programme
- Seminar 1: Public policy and social justice: Contexts and concepts (London, 21 March 2005)
- Seminar 2: Distributional justice and inequalities (Bristol, 13 July 2005)
- Seminar 3: Social justice and multiculturalism: tensions and possibilities (York, 24 November 2005)
- Seminar 4: New approaches to understanding social injustice (Glasgow, March 2006)
- Conference: Social justice, public policy and responsibility (London, October 2006)