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Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy |
| Clara Sabbagh was born and grew up in Guatemala and lives and works in Israel since 1972. A sociologist of education by training, she now lectures at the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy, University of Haifa in the Programme for Education, Culture and Society. At the heart of her work lies an ongoing inquiry into key aspects of conceptions of social justice that underlie the basic structure of society. Much of her scientific activity focuses on young people's evaluations of the ways different kinds of resources are, and should be distributed in society. Her research on this topic constitutes three main areas: First, it has developed a theoretical framework that accommodates both etic (structural) and emic (culture-bound) approaches to social justice judgments. Second, it investigates the ways in which social justice judgments are related to conceptions of other key societal issues such as social welfare, environmentalism and relationships between generations. Third, it explores the ways in which social justice judgments are expressed in various social spheres, especially the realm of education and the family. Finally, she delves into patterns of continuity and change of social justice judgments in the Israeli society. In order to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of these topics, she integrates philosophical-oriented and empirically-oriented sociological and social-psychological approaches to justice. Moreover, in all three areas of study she adopts a cross-cultural and multi-method perspective, with the aim of distinguishing between universalistic and particularistic aspects of social justice judgments. |
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