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Social Justice and Disabled People: Principles and Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2005

Robina Goodlad  and
Sheila Riddell
Robina Goodlad
Affiliation:
Scottish Centre for Research in Social Justice, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow E-mail: [email protected]
Sheila Riddell
Affiliation:
Centre for Inclusion and Diversity Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
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Abstract

Social justice is a policy aim of the UK Labour government. This paper considers the applicability of the concept to disability, seeking to establish principles for conceptualising social justice and disability and considering the nature of the challenges for public policy and society posed by this conceptualisation. The paper considers how disability is implicated in two types of claims about the source of social injustice: those concerned with socially constructed differences between people; and those arising from material inequalities. Appropriate values underpinning alternative conceptions of social justice are discussed and tensions in policymaking considered.

Type
Themed Section on Disabled People and Social Justice
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 45 - 54
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2005

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