Les inégalités injustes

• Main Author: Véronique Guienne
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2011-10-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: public action; unequal treatments; injustice; feeling of injustice
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/3648

Could there be fair inequalities? This article will show that no there cannot, but that certain do have a relative legitimacy that do not create a feeling of being humiliate, cheated, or wrongfully treated. While other “unequal treatments” will start-up this unfairness feeling; the ones that are the result of public action will aggravate preexistent inequalities. This article is build-up around three moments: the first one recounts the beginning of this questioning in the author’s mind; the second proposes theoretical and methodological clarifications, particularly on the analysis of the relationship between inequalities and social injustice; and the third resumes the principles of public action that aims at narrowing these unjust inequalities.