Social Justice Themes

Many things in life can leave an impact and help lead a person down pathways. Community has been and will continue to be a part of everyone’s life. No matter where a person lives a community is always near. Communities are usually a place that has a certain feel with the people within the community. Four themes that are a part of almost every community and leaves an impact in today’s world are spirituality, women’s issues, sustainability, and social justice. These themes may touch base with some and to others not at all, but in the end they are present in almost all lives. Each theme has an individualized definition and idea, but when the four come together as one it leaves people thinking of a possibility of a better world if we all would …show more content…
Social justice connects to the minorities and poor compared to the majorities and wealthy. Social justice takes place anywhere you could think of, cities, towns, counties, states, countries, and the world. The act of social justice is the moral virtue or good habit exercised when a person acts with others in an organized way to perfect the social order or any part of it within their reach (Social Justice, Not Utopia - Center for Economic and Social Justice.). I support different types of social justices. I believe that social justice needs to be given to those who deserve it. People who are a minority are usually pushed to the side and degraded for being different or having a lack of what others have. I support those social justices that are actually standing for something and not a fight against another group that could break out to something more. Reverend William Ferree, addresses social justice as how they can enhance or degrade the sovereignty and dignity of the individuals affected by them (Social Justice, Not Utopia - Center for Economic and Social …show more content…
These issues have been a long standing problem in the world. Women are thought of as the weaker side of the two genders. Women’s issues are shown throughout the entire world in different ways. Today, women are more respected than they were even twenty years ago in the United States, but a lot still believe that women are still not equal to men in entirety . With that being said women get degraded for just about anything that holds the idea that a man could do the same task but better. An issue in today’s world is that of feminist. Some believe that feminist are filling the world with evil before they even hear what they have to say. Women also face issues concerning their health and their body being decided by the government and not the people who are more closely related to the issue. Some issues that are still a major problem for women in society today are listed and talked about in a Huffington Post article. The article states that men dominate many of the most esteemed professional fields and get paid higher wages. Women could have the same job title of a man, but her pay wage may be significantly lower. Men dominate work fields especially in the engineering department (Zeilinger, Julie). The article also mentions that women are doubling up on work at home and outside jobs (Zeilinger,