The Importance Of Social Justice

In this Land of Freedom, we need to think about if everyone still gets freedom. Is everyone equally treated? Or does everyone get equal chance? The society divided people into two groups: dominant groups and subordinate groups. According to the textbook, the dominant group has the greatest influence in determining the structure of the society, and they are seen as the norm for humanity (Adams et al., 2013). On the other hand, targeted people, subordinate groups, are said to be innately incapable of performing the preferred roles. Where did the goal of social justice go? Is it not supposed to pursue “full and equal participation of all groups on a society that is mutually shaped to meet their need” (Adams et al., 2013)? We all know developing

The race is one of the major issues that our society is confronting.

1) In order to develop social justice, we need to look in the depth of every oppression, so we can find the solution for each individual oppressions. For example, as the textbook talk about. There are so much restriction among the society. A girl who is especially “poor or of color”, then she cannot even imagine herself being a president, because there was no female president, and “African Americans as a group have still not achieved full equality” (Adams et al., 2013). We also need to have deep understanding about all the “ISMS”. After we understand all the oppressions, we need to become ally and empowered targeted group members. This is where social justice come from. Allies’ role as change agents is “working with other privileged group members or in coalition with targeted group members to challenge systems of

For example, “race emerged historically in the US to justify the dominance of peoples defined as ‘white’” (Adams et al., 2003). Before the historical event of slavery, people defined as “white” was not justified as the dominant group. But after that occurrence, the society began to think that being “white” is dominant. Another example is White privilege. They have “greater access to jobs and housing,” and she was also able to “shop in department stores without being followed by suspicious sales-people.” And not only that, she could send her child to “school confident that the teacher would not discriminate against him” (Adams et al., 2003). If the society did not think the supremacy of being White. Everyone can feel that way. Race is not interchangeable. Using the word prejudice is not enough to describe what is racism. Racism is a “system involving cultural messages and institutional policies and practices as well as the beliefs and actions of individual” (Adams et al., 2003). Racism means so much more than prejudice. It is “prejudice plus power,” and racism is combined with social power. It has access to social, cultural, and economic resources and decision-making which leads us to the institutionalization of racist policies and