사회갈등 해소 기제로서의 공정성 탐색

초록

Although individuals’ perceptions of social injustice and social conflicts are widespread in the Korean society, few studies have examined the causes and effects of social injustice and conflicts. This study has a three-fold purpose. First, this paper attempts to explore the level of social justice in our society, categorizing into three types of social justice: distribution, opportunity, and condition justice. Second, this study will examine the degree of social conflicts. Last, this paper will empirically reveal the relationship between social justice and social conflicts with a hypothesis that social justice negatively affects social conflicts. It is found that the degree of distribution justice is rather low in Korea. The degree of condition justice is also found to be low. For opportunity justice, whereas respondents think opportunities for welfare benefits or employment are unfair, more than half of the respondents perceive educational opportunity as faire in the society. For the correlation between social justice and social conflict, it is shown that all the three of the justice types-distribution, opportunity, and condition-are significantly correlated to decrease in social conflicts. The most influential variable is found to be opportunity justice, followed by distribution justice, and condition justice, respectively. Drawing on the analytical results, this study suggest several policy implications.

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