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Do not fill this in! ===Social justice=== {{Main|Social justice}} Social justice encompasses the just relationship between individuals and their society, often considering how privileges, opportunities, and wealth ought to be distributed among individuals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=social justice {{!}} Definition of social justice in English by Oxford Dictionaries |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/social_justice |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114180223/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/social_justice |archive-date=14 January 2017 |access-date=2018-11-13 |website=Oxford Dictionaries {{!}} English}}</ref> Social justice is also associated with [[social mobility]], especially the ease with which individuals and families may move between [[Social stratification|social strata]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ornstein |first=Allan C. |date=2017-12-01 |title=Social Justice: History, Purpose and Meaning |journal=Society |language=en |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=541β548 |doi=10.1007/s12115-017-0188-8 |issn=1936-4725 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Social justice is distinct from [[cosmopolitanism]], which is the idea that all people belong to a single global community with a shared morality.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Kleingeld |first1=Pauline |title=Cosmopolitanism |date=2014 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/cosmopolitanism/ |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |edition=Fall 2014 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |access-date=2018-12-14 |last2=Brown |first2=Eric}}</ref> Social justice is also distinct from [[egalitarianism]], which is the idea that all people are equal in terms of status, value, or rights, as social justice theories do not all require equality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=egalitarianism {{!}} Definition of egalitarianism in English by Oxford Dictionaries |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/egalitarianism |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113125343/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/egalitarianism |archive-date=13 November 2018 |access-date=2018-11-13 |website=Oxford Dictionaries {{!}} English}}</ref> For example, sociologist [[George C. Homans]] suggested that the root of the concept of justice is that each person should receive rewards that are proportional to their contributions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rubinstein |first=David |date=1988 |title=The Concept of Justice in Sociology |journal=Theory and Society |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=527β550 |doi=10.1007/BF00158887 |jstor=657654 |s2cid=143622666}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Homans |first=George Caspar |url=https://archive.org/details/socialbehaviorit0000homa_e3x9/page/246 |title=Social behavior; its elementary forms. |publisher=Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich |year=1974 |isbn=978-0-15-581417-2 |edition=Rev. |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/socialbehaviorit0000homa_e3x9/page/246 246β249] |oclc=2668194}}</ref> Economist [[Friedrich Hayek]] said that the concept of social justice was meaningless, saying that justice is a result of individual behavior and unpredictable market forces.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hayek |first=F.A. |title=Law, legislation and liberty : a new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy |date=1976 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |isbn=978-0-7100-8403-3 |pages=78 |oclc=769281087}}</ref> Social justice is closely related to the concept of relational justice, which is about the just relationship with individuals who possess features in common such as nationality, or who are engaged in cooperation or negotiation.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Poblet |first1=Marta |title=Concepts and Fields of Relational Justice |date=2008 |url=http://ddd.uab.cat/record/143902 |work=Computable Models of the Law |pages=323β339 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |publisher=Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-85569-9_21 |isbn=978-3-540-85568-2 |last2=Casanovas |first2=Pompeu|volume=4884 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nagel |first=Thomas |date=2005 |title=The Problem of Global Justice |journal=Philosophy & Public Affairs |language=en |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=113β147 |doi=10.1111/j.1088-4963.2005.00027.x |issn=1088-4963 |s2cid=144307058}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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