Systemic and Structural Injustice

Is There a Difference

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8097256
AutoresSally Haslanger (0000-0002-3898-4266, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume98
Fascículo1
Páginas1-27
Data de publicação2022-09-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8191 • E-ISSN: 1469-817X
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0031819122000353
OpenAlexW4295197833
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas27

The terms ‘structural injustice’ and ‘systemic injustice’ are commonly used, but their meanings are elusive. In this paper, I sketch an ontology of social systems that embeds accounts of social structures, relations, and practices. On this view, structures may be intrinsically problematic, or they may be problematic only insofar as they interact with other structures in the system to produce injustice. Because social practices that constitute structures set the backdrop for agency and identity, socially fluent agents reproduce the systems, often unknowingly and unintentionally. The account aims to capture how agents both depend on and enact structures, and do so in ways that, as Ta-Nehisi Coates says, ‘land on the body

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Identity (music · Injustice · Ontology · Political science · Set (abstract data type · Sketch · Social structure · Sociology · Structure and agency · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology