SOCI 125 Introduction to Social Justice
Introduction to Social Justice focuses generally on how to define social justice and what we can do to promote social justice in modern society. Social justice, however, is impossible to imagine without at least addressing some examples of social injustice; thus, the central goal of this course is to provide students with a framework and opportunity to study historical and contemporary examples of social injustice with an eye toward how we can ameliorate them. The course beings with an introduction to the study of social justice using the works of, among others, John Rawls, Brian Barry, Iris Marion Young, and Angela Davis before turning to examine examples of social injustice such as economic inequality, racial and gender inequality, reparations, mass incarceration, human trafficking, and environmental racism. Throughout the course, we will focus on the pursuit of social justice through a range of mediums and policy proposals as we explore both structural and individual approaches for pursuing social justice.