What is the difference between distributive and procedural justice? How do world events in your teen years help shape your political views?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authors Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff describe social justice theories in their book The Coddling of the American Mind.<\/em> They state that distributive justice means that benefits received should be commensurate with the amount of effort or work one puts in, whereas procedural justice is concerned with fair and transparent rules and processes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep reading to learn more about distributive and procedural justice theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Political science research shows that people have a strong tendency to form lasting political views during their teens years and early adulthood<\/strong>. For a certain subset of baby boomers, the experiences of the civil rights movement<\/a>, the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War<\/a>, and Watergate shifted their political orientation decisively\u2014and permanently\u2014to the left and to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A similar dynamic has taken place with iGen, whose members came of age during the period running roughly from 2008-2017. This was an era of immense social and political turmoil, particularly around questions of identity and racial and gender equity. Some of the events from this era included:<\/p>\n\n\n\nSocial Justice<\/strong> Theories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n