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Human Values and Their Relation to Justice
Author(s) -
Feather N. T.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1994.tb01201.x
Subject(s) - distributive justice , economic justice , social psychology , psychology , relation (database) , value (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , human values , focus (optics) , positive economics , sociology , political science , social science , law , economics , paleontology , database , machine learning , computer science , biology , physics , optics
This article describes studies that relate justice‐related behavior and experience to the content of human values. The studies are concerned with moral judgment, belief in a just world, distributive justice in the context of allocation decisions, and the nature of deservingness. In each case the focus is on associations between particular values or value types and an aspect of justice. A theoretical analysis of deservingness is presented that takes account of perceived responsibility and the conjunction of positively (or negatively) valued actions and positively (or negatively) valued outcomes. The subjective values (or valences) assigned to the actions and outcomes are assumed to be related to a person's underlying system of values. It is argued that research on justice has tended to ignore the values held by individuals, groups, and cultures, and that this deficiency should be remedied in future research.