What do A"recognitionA" and identity approaches bring to our understanding of social justice? Discuss how a recognition approach might see the major problems of social justice in a contemporary multicultural society and the type of remedies it would advocate.
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
A definition of social justice is provided by David Miller in Principles of Social Justice: how the good and bad things in life should be distributed among the members of a human society' (p.1). This conceptualises social justice firmly within the distributive paradigm. Although during the last 30 years, there has been a major change in the nature and aims of political struggles in the industrialised world.Today, however, we increasingly encounter a second type of social-justice claim in the "politics of recognition." The usual approach is to view recognition through the lens of identity. From this perspective, what requires recognition is group-specific cultural identity ( Fraser 1997:......
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