Contrasting Sentiments of Social Justice in France and Quebec
Résumé
Sociologists from many countries have recently paid attention to measures of social justice sentiments. In doing so, they are following the lead of philosophers like John Rawls (1971) or Michael Walzer (1983), among many others, and are now studying the question of justice empirically. Do individuals evaluate justice from the perspective of equity (or fairness) like Rawls proposed? Do they conceptualize different spheres of justice like Walzer argued? Only empirical studies can provide answers to these questions and offer “grounded knowledge” (Boudon 2012) that is knowledge that connect philosophical concepts with the actions and thought of social actors, at least in contemporary democratic societies.