Social Justice Essay

Introduction Social Justice is the practice of opposing forces of prejudice, discrimination, and classism in our everyday lives. Social justice means that there is an inequality between groups due to one group being unfairly advantaged over the other, and that this should be corrected so that each social group in society has the same opportunities and same lack of oppression as each other group. In practice, people only see their own oppression while using labels of social justice as an excuse…

Between the years 1984 and 2016 a lot has changed, but a lot also still remained the same. The social injustices our current day faces are also similar but vastly different. Better? Maybe. In class we have been learning about social justice and the major impact discrimination, oppression, inequity and prejudice has brought to our history. For example, I will be talking about discrimination in the lgbtq+ community. It’s sad to say, but it's a pretty well known fact that their has been multiple…

I interviewed Abdelaziz Hassan, aka Zezo, who has been the race and social justice LCA for the past two years. During this interview Billie was present. I wanted to begin the interview with a small ice breaker, so I suggested we could state a happy and a crappy thing that we were experiencing. I think this was a good way to warm up the conversation. I learned that the most rewarding thing about being an LCA, for Zezo, was the connections he gained. His most important connection was the…

For my social justice event, I attended the Geller Lecture for Human Relations: “The Land of Open Graves: Life, Death, and the Politics of Decomposition on the US/Mexican Border”. It was essentially a lecture about the problems, and the inhumane things that occur at the US/Mexican border. This lecture was sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Criminology. The lead, and only presenter of this event was Jason De Le’on. He is very experienced, and involved in the occurrences at the…

For centuries, confining women to the private sphere was one of the main methods powerful men used to avoid dealing with their fear of women; it's still happening in some parts of the world. In the west, that just doesn't work anymore. Women are much more visible, and so is the negative response towards more women on the screen. While men in society are traditionally seen as humorous, women are traditionally not seen as funny . Especially in a big-budget film like the new Ghostbusters, whose…

Response Paper 1 Think of any relevant social justice movement happening today and you will find out that they began as a grassroots organization. A grassroots organization, as defined in Kate Capeheart’s article “Justice and Grassroots Struggles,” is one that “[provides] free spaces in which the victim moves from being a bystander to participant in the social struggle for justice” (qtd in Capeheart 176). When thinking about this definition, it is important to focus on the process one goes…

of a crime can be left quite traumatised. They can experience shock, numbness, anger and disbelief. They can often develop long term problems such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This report sourced information from the NSW Department of Justice, Victims Services using the website, publications and associated literature. It found that Victims Services has much to offer in terms of support, referrals and information for victims of crime. Introduction A victim is a person who has…

an important issue for school-aged children, their families and public schools. Bullying prevention has become especially important for Asian American students. This paper is a review of a journal article entitled, ‘Bullying Prevention as a Social Justice Issue: Implications with Asian American Elementary School Students’. Cixin et al. (2016) reported that a significant portion of its Asian American participants, believed that they were victimized or bullied because of their…

are only 3 inches long! How can she walk?” “Her head is way too big for her neck. She looks freaky.” These and many other comments could be heard as students put the finishing touches on their life-sized Barbie. As part of a Project-Based Social Justice Mathematics (PB-SJM) pedagogy, students investigated body image as portrayed by childhood toys by scaling Barbie dolls to their height (Mukhopadhyay, 2014). Students used the concept of ratios, scale factors, measurement, and multiplication…

of the actions of a small group of people from that race and through this, racism allows a person to justify all sorts of indignities on people from other cultures. The most significant factor contributing to the development of racism is social media. Social media portrays images of people, allowing stereotypes to be developed. Therefore, every time an individual sees another person from a different race, they depict a certain stereotype about them. This significantly influences how people in…