Framework

Structural injustice

The question it answers

When hiring and promotion rules already treat everyone equally yet some groups still fall behind, which structures should a company's leaders examine to find the cause?

Origin
Young, 2006; Young, 2008
Diagram type
Hub diagram
Level of analysis
Industry
Topics
Ethics & corporate governance
Clay balance scale with two level glass pans, icon for business ethics

Diagram

Structural injustice

Basic structure
Distribution of wealth and opportunity (Rawls's focus)
Social division of labour: autonomous roles, scope to learn
Decision-making power: who has a voice in production and finance
Normalisation: treating one group's experience as the standard for everyone

Sources

References

Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.

  1. Young, I.M. (2006) ‘Taking the basic structure seriously’, Perspectives on Politics, 4(1), pp. 91–97.doi:10.1017/s1537592706060099Source page
  2. Young, I.M. (2008) ‘Structural injustice and the politics of difference’, in Intersectionality and beyond. Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, pp. 289–314.doi:10.4324/9780203890882-23Source page