Friday, January 20, 2012
"justice as fairness"
Blogging is supposed to be about being yourself and telling how you feel about anything that is going on in your life at the moment, so that's how I'm going to start this first post in this class. By seeing how many articles I had to read, I had a tough time trying to sit down and get a well enough understanding on what was going on. After reading for awhile, I had a different perspective. Most of what i got was that we have this concept on social justice to help every single person to try and have the same opportunities like everyone else and basically have the same basic bill of rights in this country. when in reality it is not really the truth. It's very obvious that our society is far from fulfilling our duty of serving every individual. With that being said it is not that hard to see that many people are being treated very unfairly due to their background and current situations.With the limited resource that we are faced with in this country it causes a roadblock in our career paths to try and better our many communities and certain individuals that really need help. There are certain groups and organizations that suffer the most because they are the ones that need more help than others but yet there are other groups that receive that needed help before them. So you could say that there will be always someone in need at the end of the day.
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"There will be always someone in need at the end of the day." You couldn't have said it any better, that is what I was thinking after trying to take all of this in. As much as we (future social workers) want to aide those in need something will be holding us back and unfortunately lead us to some type of discrimination (unwanted).
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to discuss this in more detail during our class.
I completely agree with you. Seeing all the articles I was a bit intimidated. But once I started reading I couldn't stop. I didn't realize how unfair our amazing country can be. The amazing thing about it is that us as future social workers can and will strive to make a difference. Like Pelton said, we must learn nondiscrimination and that is exactly what we will do.
ReplyDeleteDesiree,
ReplyDeletewhen I first started reading these articles beginning with Pelton's I was thoroughly confused and in shock because as a social worker I never thought about doing any wrongfulness to anyone. These articles opened my eyes and I see that social justice is not a easy topic to analyse much less implicate in the broader communities. I know that we are all trying to help the world in one way or another we do have to keep in mind everyone's unique personalities and responsibilities however. I am surely looking forward to discussing these articles more deeply in class.