AGING, SOCIAL INEQUALITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Social Inequality, Social Justice and the `Life Dimensions Approach'

The growing challenges of a globalized economy, together with high levels of unemployment, are currently exerting severe pressure on the welfare state. In response, policy-makers and voters alike are increasingly questioning the level and scope of state-funded welfare services. The debate around these issues focuses on the welfare state's implicit objectives of achieving social redistribution a...

Poverty , Inequality and Social Justice in Nonmetropolitan America

Social inequality in health, responsibility and egalitarian justice.

Are social inequalities in health unjust when brought about by differences in lifestyle? A widespread idea, luck egalitarianism, is that inequality stemming from individuals' free choices is not to be considered unjust, since individuals, presumably, are themselves responsible for such choices. Thus, to the extent that lifestyles are in fact results of free choices, social inequality in health ...

Social Inequality and the Perceived Income Justice Gap

This paper attempts to answer the question whether justice evaluations of income inequality in a society are determined more by country differences or by the social position an observer occupies. In very general terms what we study is whether, in shaping justice beliefs, cultural factors are more important than social-structural ones, or vice versa. In view of transformation societies, country ...

Can social instability, food deprivation and food inequality accelerate neuronal aging?

Based on both animal and human studies, inequality in food intake and social instability has adverse effects on the health of individuals and the community. However, it is not known whether social instability, food deprivation and food inequality affect neuronal death and premature aging in young animals. To address this question, the effects of these adverse situations, histopathological chang...