Social justice in inter-ethnic relations

Social Justice in Social Policy

It is claimed that social justice is firmly on the political agenda and is a major concern of numerous policy documents, think tanks and research units. However, ̳social justice‘ can be seen as a poorly defined ̳motherhood and apple pie‘ term. Virtually everyone is in favour of ̳social justice‘ but their interpretations of the term vary widely (there are many different varieties of apple!). We ...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Ethnic Relations in Contemporary China

Comparing with other ancient civilizations, China has very unique characteristics of a continuing written history throughout a series of successive dynasties over at least 3,000 years. The intensive interactions among different groups in the East Asian Continent in those years finally resulted in a multi-ethnic political entity with a huge population and a special culture-centered identity. In ...

Familial Bond of Multi-Ethnic Society Based on Wisdom Culture through Social Network in Anticipation the Inter Ethnic Conflicts

Since the opening of the Trans Borneo and toll bridge that connects the Ambawang River District, Kubu Raya district with the city of Pontianak, this area had been isolated into the open area which makes access to the city to be smooth. These conditions of productive land in the District of Ambawang River be one of the strategic areas that became the target of investors, giving rise to unhealthy...

Self-relations in Social Relations

This article contributes to an ongoing theoretical effort to extend the insights of relational and network sociology into adjacent domains. We integrate Simmel’s late theory of the relational self into the formal analysis of social relations, generating a framework for theorizing forms of association among self-relating individuals. On this model, every “node” in an interaction has relations no...