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Values, Achievement, and Justice
Norman T. Feather
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Description for Values, Achievement, and Justice
hardcover. Relates judgements of 'deservingness' or 'undeservingness' to perceived responsibility, values, liking relations, and ingroup/outgroup relations. This book presents a social-cognitive process model concerned with how people react to offenses and to the perpetrators of offenses. Series: Critical Issues in Social Justice. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1400.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Social Justice
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306461552
SKU
V9780306461552
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99-15
Reviews for Values, Achievement, and Justice
`...Feather deserves all the praise he will no doubt receive for his considerable achievements.' APA REVIEW OF BOOKS, 46:3 (2001)