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The Belief in a Just World. A Fundamental Delusion.
Melvin J. Lerner
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Description for The Belief in a Just World. A Fundamental Delusion.
Hardback. Series: Critical Issues in Social Justice. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1110.
The "belief in a just world" is an attempt to capmre in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms with-make sense out of-find meaning in, their experiences. We do not believe that things just happen in our world; there is a pattern to events which conveys not only a sense of orderli ness or predictability, but also the compelling experience of appropriateness ex pressed in the typically implicit judgment, "Yes, that is the way it should be." There are probably many reasons why people discover or develop a view of their environment ... Read more
The "belief in a just world" is an attempt to capmre in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms with-make sense out of-find meaning in, their experiences. We do not believe that things just happen in our world; there is a pattern to events which conveys not only a sense of orderli ness or predictability, but also the compelling experience of appropriateness ex pressed in the typically implicit judgment, "Yes, that is the way it should be." There are probably many reasons why people discover or develop a view of their environment ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Social Justice
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306404955
SKU
V9780306404955
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