A Service-Related Research Report (commissioned by the placement provider)

This module is only available to students registered on the Doctorate in...

Evaluative Report on Project Work (PSYC0094)

A Service-Related Research Report (commissioned by the placement provider)

This module is only available to students registered on the Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology (DDYPSYSECP06)

Questions of justice and injustice, of oppression and emancipation, are at the forefront of political debate. What is justice? How is justice to be achieved?...

Theories of Justice and Injustice (POLS0090)

Questions of justice and injustice, of oppression and emancipation, are at the forefront of political debate. What is justice? How is justice to be achieved? How ought we to respond when justice is denied? Should everyone have equal amounts of goods? Is it acceptable for some people have more than others provided that everyone has enough? What, precisely, is wrong about inegalitarian social relations, like domination, exploitation, and oppression?
The module explores these questions through study of the large and highly advanced literature on justice and injustice developed by political theorists and philosophers over the past fifty years. Figures to be studied might include: Elizabeth Anderson, Sandra Lee Bartky, G. A. Cohen, Patricia Hill Collins, Angela Davis, Nancy Fraser, Friedrich Hayek, Chris Lebron, Catharine MacKinnon, Charles W. Mills, Robert Nozick, Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Iris Marion Young. Topics to be considered might include: the meaning and value of equality; the meaning and disvalue of oppression; the nature of distributive justice; the nature of structural injustice; economic exploitation under capitalism; sexual objectification under patriarchy; and structural racism under White supremacy. 

Comparative Politics|Human Rights|International Relations and Politics|Politics|Public Policy|Quantitative Analysis

The module will introduce students to the idea of what are economic and social rights, and different explanations about where these rights come from. We will...