Studying Injustice in the Macro and Micro Spheres: Four Generations of Social Psychological Research

Abstract

This chapter examines the theoretical development and application of justice research in three generations of psychologists trained in the Lewinian mode of psychological research: Morton Deutsch, a student of Kurt Lewin's while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Opotow, a student of Deutsch's while at Teachers College, Columbia University; and Sara I. McClelland, a student of Opotow's while at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Within each of these scholars' work—and in the links that connect them—we see how justice theories shift and expand when applied to a range of situations and across levels of analysis. Moving between macro-level structures and micro-level relationships, we explore nuances of justice research models and discover new aspects of justice theories. At the end of the chapter, M. Deutsch offers comments on the current article. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)