Introduction: (In-) Justice (In-) Equality

Sunday Business Post, 1998

Studies, 2001

2023

Inequality eternally touches the human consciousness as an unjust phenomenon that must be eliminated. However, despite many attempts, including bloody revolutions, it persists as gender and race discrimination, even in its oldest form - slavery. Beyond these extreme cases, inequality is natural whereas equality is artificial

2017

19th century’s famous poet Oliver Wendell Holmes once said “I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” However that is not a popular idea and equality for everybody generally seen as a pillar stone of a just society by common view. It is widely accepted that all human beings are equal and people should be treated as equals in any case. If there is a situation that creates an inequality in any way, people oppose it and try to change it relentlessly. It is straightforward and convenient to think that equality for all would create a just society however it is not the case. This paper is going to challenge the status-quo by being in defense of inequality, supporting some anti-egalitarian insights and bringing out the new concept of “equivalency in society”. In order to do this, the paper is claiming that equality for all is impossible because all people are not equal also equality doesn’t mean justice thus trying to make people equal creates injustice rather than justice and the solution to this problem is equivalency for all in society.

2004

Preface to Second Edition PART I: THE NEW EQUALITY AGENDA New Challenges to an Unequal World Dimensions of Equality: A Framework for Theory and Action The Centrality of Equality: Equality and Other Values Contexts of Egalitarian Change: Social Systems and Social Groups PART II: PUTTING EQUALITY INTO PRACTICE Towards Economic Equality The Challenge of Participatory Democracy Equality, the Legal System and Employment Law Equality and Education Emancipatory Research as a Tool of Change PART III: STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE Class, Gender and the Equality Movement Ideology and Resistance Strategic Issues for the Equality Movement Notes Bibliography

2003

Abstract: This is the first volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality.