The purpose of this special issue is to bring together a range of established scholars with diverse social and political commitments to reflect on some of the philosophical and theoretical issues that emerge when psychologists address social justice in their research and practice.
The major themes taken up in this issue include the relationship between the individual and the community, the role that psychology plays both in promoting and in preventing the development of more equitable social and political institutions, and the way that different forms of universalism (e.g., moral, scientific, psychological) inform the struggle for social justice.
Guest Editors
Table of contents
Psychology and Social Justice: Theoretical and Philosophical Engagements
Pages 1–13
Arfken, Michael; Yen, Jeffery
Social Justice and Psychology: What Is, and What Should Be
Pages 14–27
Louis, Winnifred R.; Mavor, Kenneth I.; La Macchia, Stephen T.; Amiot, Catherine E.
Madness and Justice
Pages 28–40
Parker, Ian
The Personal and Political Economy of Psychologists' Desires for Social Justice
Pages 41–55
Walsh, Richard T. G.; Gokani, Ravi
Belief in a Just God (and a Just Society): A System Justification Perspective on Religious Ideology
Pages 56–81
Jost, John T.; Hawkins, Carlee Beth; Nosek, Brian A.; Hennes, Erin P.; Stern, Chadly; Gosling, Samuel D.; Graham, Jesse
