Social Capital and Social Justice

This paperaims toanalyse the issueof implementing the justicein a societywithdemocratic rules,taking into account the social capital structure. To thisend, a typology of the social capital isproposedand examined, getting to a qualitativetypologyof the social in sixspecieswhichare thengrouped into threepairsbased onthe relationship betweenindividuationand socialization phenomena. In thiscontext,social justiceprinciples and criteriaare evaluatedand correlated withthe social capitaltypology, extractingconclusions abouthowa practicable social justicemay be boththe source andthe destination othe social capitaldynamics. Finally, the paperproposes somenotabledistinctionsbetweensocial justice andsocial rightness, basedalsoon theproposedtypology of the social capital.