Young Adults’ Experience of Social (In)justice

Abstract

This article attempts to present the ways in which the phenomenon of social (in)justice is experienced by young adults from large urban areas. In the presented study, the category of (in)justice fulfils the function of a criterion for evaluating social relations as actually experienced, thus playing the role of a principle/template of an ethical and moral idea, being at the same time the effect of individual and community action. Based on the assumption that the experience of this phenomenon is continuous and strictly relational, it was assumed that the meanings given to (in)justice as a result of interlocutors’ personal experiences, allow an insight into the processes of assimilation of social order, identical to the phenomenon of lifelong learning. Consciously going beyond the methodological framework imposed by phenomenography, the Authors aim at understanding the rationality of participation in the social order, dominant in today’s Poland (and social justice is its dominant part), shaped as a result of negotiations between the learning subject and the external world.