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WiSe 20/21: Online: Structural Injustice

Lillian Cicerchia

Information for students

This course will be taught completely online. Students seeking active participation will be expected to attend each class session, or submit a reading response paper in the event of an absence. Students will be expected to prepare for weekly discussions by reading the assigned texts and submitting a multi-media item as a potential topic for discussion into a shared folder each week. In class, participation will be based on engaging in small group work activities, and questions and comments in the larger group. close

Comments

This course aims for students to understand the fundamental debates about what a social structure is and what makes a social structure unjust. The course literature will include essays in the philosophy of social science, feminist philosophy, and critical philosophy of race. Liberalism (1) John Rawls—Justice as Fairness, Part I, § 1-4 (2) John Rawsls—Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Part II, § 12-18 (3) John Rawls—Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Part III, §23-28 Social Structure (4) Richard Miller, Methodological Individualism and Social Explanation (5) Douglas Porpora, Four Concepts of Social Structure (6) Debra Satz and John Ferejohn, Rational Choice and Social Theory Left-Liberal Critique (7) Iris Marion Young – Justice and the Politics of Difference, Ch. 1 (8) Charles Mills, Black Rights/White Wrongs, Ch. 8 (9) Iris Marion Young – Responsibility for Justice, Structure as the Basic Subject Structural Injustice—Radical Liberalism? (10) Ann Cudd – Analyzing Oppression Ch. 1 (11) Ann Cudd –Analyzing Oppression Ch. 2 (12) Tommie Shelby, Ideology, Racism, and Critical Social Theory (13) Tommie Shelby, Dark Ghettos Ch. 1 (14) Charles Mills, Black Rights/White Wrongs Ch. 9, Epilogue close