scholarly journals Φεμινισμός και ψυχολογία: Συνέπειες στην έρευνα, στην κλινική πρακτική και στη συλλογική κοινωνική δράση

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Χριστίνα Αθανασιάδου
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
General Area ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Ideology

The papers of this special issue fall into the general area of the feminist critical psychology, since they reveal the special and often marginalized experience of different groups of women, place and interpret the issues discussed within the context of the existing social-cultural ideology regarding to gender and/or ethnic identity and connect the scientific research with practice, the empowerment of the participants and the social-political action. This commentary underlies three important issues that have been brought into the front by this feminist critique on psychology and which are also discussed among all the papers. These are (a) the adaptation of qualitative methodology in psychological research, (b) the recognition of the interaction between the identity of gender and other identities, as well as (c) the notions of social justice and social action

Placing Social Justice at the Center of the Sociology Department

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas K. Rademacher
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Department Chair ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Sociology Department ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Reform Strategies ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Social

As department chair, Furfey integrated social justice into the curriculum of the Department of Sociology, analysing scientific research data according to Christian analysis. In this period, Furfey began to interpret the Christian tradition in language approximating non-violent class struggle and sought alternative social reform strategies where spirituality and science would intersect. He cultivated the social and political interests of his students. According to his “Catholic Social Manifesto,” his department would now favor personalistic social action guided by divine grace over political action guided by human prudence. He and his colleauges would pursue nonviolent activism, grounded in love, to promote social change. Nevertheless, they would continue to pursue rigorous scientific research and approach their social justice reform according to the latest standards. Furfey and his colleagues Mary Elizabeth Walsh and Gladys Sellew launched Il Poverello House and later Fides House to explore the intersection of a theologically-informed spirituality with contemporary sociology and social work.

International perspectives on social justice: Introduction to the special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Sally L. Grapin ◽  
David Shriberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
School Psychology ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Training ◽  
International Social

The concept of social justice has become increasingly prominent in school psychology practice, research, and training. While the literature in this area has burgeoned over the last decade, relatively less scholarship has synthesized global perspectives on social justice. This article provides a brief introduction to the special issue, International Perspectives on Social Justice. In particular, we describe contributions of each of the issue’s four articles to the social justice literature in school and educational psychology as well as identify prominent themes. Finally, we describe potential directions for advancing an international social justice agenda in school psychology.

scholarly journals Great Problems of Grand Challenges: Problematizing Engineering’s Understandings of its Role in Society

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Cech ◽  
"Guest Introduction to Special Issue on NAE's Grand Challenges for Engineering"
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Members ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges for Engineering report has received a great deal of attention from legislators, policymakers, and educators, but what does it entail for social justice considerations in engineering? This article situates the Grand Challenges report as a cultural artifact of the engineering profession—an artifact that works to reinforce engineering’s professional culture, recruit new members, and reassert engineering’s legitimacy in the 21st century. As such, the Grand Challenges report provides a unique opportunity to understand and critique the role engineering envisions for itself in society. The articles in this special issue of IJESJP identify four central critiques of Grand Challenges: authorial particularism, double standards in engineering’s contributions to these challenges, bracketing of the “social” from “technical” realms, and deterministic definitions of progress. These critiques call for increased reflexivity and broadened participation in how engineers define problems and attempt to solve them.

scholarly journals Rekindling the flame of community through compassion – a call for leadership toward compassionate community

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughan Milner
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

This article explores the perspective that we live in communion with one another and that social justice and interdependence stem from compassion. One aspect of compassion is the notion of interdependence and being passionately moved by others and for others. Embracing community development and social capital theory engages practitioners with compassion in social action. Social isolation, social exclusion and the fragmentation of community social support networks are hidden challenges to social justice. More sustained attention can be paid to the ways social workers could and should link people to others who will remain in the clients’ lives long after the professionals have moved on. The argument is advanced that it is critical for more action in the rekindling of community and the linking of people to others – compassion reflects the grace of relationships that comes from authentic connection between people. The social justice challenge laid out is to promote social inclusion and interdependence and nurture the common life through engaging with those around our clients and us.

scholarly journals A COMPANHIA DE JESUS E O APOSTOLADO SOCIAL (1946-1975)

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (113) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Grimaldo Carneiro Zachariadhes
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Second World

O presente artigo pretende abordar a importância que o apostolado social começou a ter para a Companhia de Jesus, especialmente a latino-americana, na conjuntura do Pós-2ª Guerra Mundial. Será analisada a criação dos Centros de Investigação e Ação Social (CIAS) como uma melhor forma de exercer este apostolado. O artigo será finalizado com a promulgação do decreto 4°, em 1975, pela Congregação Geral XXXII, quando a Companhia de Jesus oficializará a luta pela Justiça Social como uma missão de todos os jesuítas.ABSTRACT: This article intends to analyze the importance that the Social apostolate began to have for Society of Jesus, especially in Latin America, in the conjuncture after Second World War. It will be analyzed the creation of the Centers of Investigation and Social Action as a better form of exercising this apostolate. The article will be concluded with the promulgation of the ordinance 4°, in 1975, for the General Congregation XXXII, when Society of Jesus will make official the fight for the Social Justice as a mission of all the Jesuits.

scholarly journals Linking participatory action research, global education, and social justice: Emerging issues from practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervi Kaukko ◽  
Michael Fertig
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emerging Issues

This article focuses on the practical, ontological, and epistemological similarities and differences between global education and participatory action research (PAR). The paper starts by presenting classical definitions of action research, highlighting their similarities with the ideas of global education. Considering the aim of global education is to promote social justice and to improve the social and educational chances of groups at risk of marginalization, participatory methods can help to involve such groups in research in an ethical and effective way. The paper ends with two examples in formal and non-formal education that show that PAR can be used to address the underlying transformative and social action principles of global education, but the principles must be adjusted to meet the needs of the participants and the context.

scholarly journals Perpetuating Oppression: Does the Current Counseling Discourse Neutralize Social Action?

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie T. Greenleaf ◽  
Rhonda M. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Counseling Professionals ◽  
Professional Ideology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Just Society

The counseling profession, by virtue of research, dialogue, and the evolution of professional ideology, continues to uphold the viewpoint that psychological distress and disorders emanate from innate or biologically based factors. Consequently, the social reality that counseling partially defines through this discourse may inadvertently constrain the very movement that can most affect change through social action and engagement. Counseling professionals may unwittingly undercut attempts by oppressed individuals, groups, and their allies to create a more equitable and just society through civil disobedience and concerted social action. This article discusses how the current discourse on social justice may neutralize social action by reviewing discourse theory and presentation of a case study that offers strategies to operational discourse theory and support social action and engagement.

Writing For Social Action in Our Digital Age

2014 ◽  
pp. 282-297
Author(s):  
Ted Kesler
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Progressive Education ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Multimodal Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Composing Process

In this chapter, the author first describe the literacy pedagogy that he implements each year with a cohort of pre-service graduate students across two semesters to develop their social justice awareness, based in progressive education and critical literacy principles. The author then describes the social action writing unit of study that arises from this work, emphasizing multimodal forms of expression and especially the use of digital technologies. The author next focuses on two students who represent the digital composing process and products for social justice that students have created. Using multimodal systems of analysis, the author shows how designing multimodal texts informs pre-service students’ understandings of social justice issues. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the convergence of multimodality and social action writing and implications for pre-service writing instruction and action research with classroom teachers in school settings.

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