Two Penn State profs, John Iceland and Eric Silver, along with co-author Elana Redstone, recently published Why We Disagree About Inequality.
They note that individuals who are concerned with “social justice” worry about the plight of vulnerable individuals and want to free them from oppression. “Social order” people put more emphasis on societal cohesion and stability. Both groups may want a good society, but the emphasis differs on how to get there.
The authors note that with polarization, each side sees the other as evil. Social justice people think the social order people are selfish and uncaring, and their ideas will lead to a police state and repression. Social order people think the social justice people are naive or unrealistic, and their ideas will lead to chaos and disorder.
The book discusses four issues in this framework: racial inequality income inequality gender inequality, and immigration.
And no, I have not read it. I read a review in the latest Penn State Alumni magazine.
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