Sociodicy

Authors

  • Salvador Giner

Keywords:

inequality, injustice, social order, ideology, morality

Abstract

Sociodicy, the worldly version of theodicy, is the social explanation and justification of evil. As an integral part of any ideology, it identifies culprits or attributes causes to evils and damages that are socially caused, at the same time that it legitimates a certain social order. In this essay, this concept and its moral dimension are analyzed, and many examples of sociodicy are examined, from the Marxist and Parsonian ones to those related to terrorism, Catholicism, neoliberalism, totalitarianisms, social networks and anti-capitalist movements, among others. For the author, the philosophical and sociological tradition which took shape in the study of ideology and the cartography of evil should be enriched with a rigorous and systematic consideration of what sociodicy means for human culture.

 

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Giner, S. (2015). Sociodicy. Clivatge. Journal of Studies on Social Conflict and Change, (3). Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/clivatge/article/view/11984

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No. 3: Social inequality, abuse of power and change processes

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