Social Justice Values Research Articles

Metatheoretical Issues of the Evolution of the International Political Economy

The topicality of the international political economy is determined by the complexity and dynamism of transformation processes in the world economic system, which are developing through information networks and financial technologies. The purpose of the article is to reveal the meta-theory elements of the international political economy in the context of their renewal in the context of the world economic system development in the wave of “information society”. To obtain scientifically sound results, the article uses the historical–logical method, the dialectical method of proceeding from the abstract to the concrete, institutional and evolutionary approaches. The article develops theoretical and methodological foundations for developing the international political economy. It is substantiated that the research agenda of the international political economy is characterized by socio-integrative trends of economic development in the global dimension. The interaction among actors of international relations is analyzed, and the structural components of their functional transformation under the conditions of integration processes advance within the world political and economic space are determined. It is concluded that the international political economy serves as a theoretical foundation, an integral general theoretical basis for establishing adaptive conceptual frameworks for building trust and solidarity among the subjects of the world economic system. Theoretical and methodological principles of the international political economy should be based on analyzing systemic and structural transformations of the world economic system; determining the criteria of social legitimacy of international authorities, based on the norms and values of social and environmental justice; and developing conditions for fulfilling the individual’s creative potential the field of world social capital.

Impact of a Social Justice Course in Graduate Nursing Education.

Social justice and health equity are foundational concepts to the graduate-prepared nurse's role. However, the integration of these concepts into graduate nursing education has been unclear. This study examined the impact of a newly created social justice course in a graduate nursing program. The impact of the Health Equity and Social Justice course on students' values and attitudes toward social justice was investigated through analysis of quantitative and qualitative data generated in the course. Data were collected from 41 graduate nursing students. Findings demonstrated that students who completed the course had an increased endorsement of social justice values, goals, and behaviors. Students universally found the course to be transformational. A social justice course in graduate education can be transformational in shaping students' values and attitudes toward health equity and social justice.

Հայաստանում սոցիալական ձեռներեցության իրազեկվածության գնահատում / Assessment of Social Entrepreneurship Awareness In Armenia

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a combination of two directions: ensuring social impact and implementing entrepreneurial activities. The main part of the income of the SE must be generated from business activities, thus separating it from public activities. The main goal of SE is to solve social problems in the society, community and country. SE is not only a problem of the economic sphere, it has the function of changing the cultural, mental, value base, bringing people closer to the values of social solidarity and social justice. The concept has recently emerged in Armenia as first enterprises were officially established in 2005. Since then, many enterprises practicing social mission with entrepreneurship have emerged. Although SE is very topical for today’s Armenia, it is rather not very well understood among the general public in the country. The development of SE in Armenia is currently in the center of attention of a number of international donor organizations and local public organizations. There are a number of donor programs aimed at the development of social enterprises and the sectoral ecosystem.

Pancasila Educational Values in Indicators Religious Moderation in Indonesia

The phenomenon of radicalism and terrorism in the name of religion in Indonesia is still showing its stretching in various existing cases. Responding to this problem requires the objectification of character education values for the Indonesian people in the context of forming a moderate mindset and attitude in their social and religious life. This research intends to identify the dimensions of Pancasila educational values in the four indicators of religious moderation formulated by the Ministry of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia. This qualitative research is in the form of a literature review with a normative-philosophical approach. The results of the study conclude that there are dimensions of Pancasila educational values contained in the four indicators of religious moderation in Indonesia. First, the educational value of the first precepts in the indicator of tolerance in the form of educational values in shaping the mindset and attitude of respecting and respecting various distinctive aspects of religious pluralism. Second, the educational value of the second precept in the indicator of anti-radicalism attitudes in the form of educational values in forming awareness of attitudes to uphold the values of the benefit of human life. Third, the educational value of the third precept in the indicator of national commitment in the form of awareness of the attitude of upholding the values of unity and unity in the frame of state life in Indonesia. Fourth, the educational value of the fourth and fifth precepts in adaptive indicators to local culture in the form of being democratic and making the value of social justice in responding to diversity related to local wisdom. The theoretical implication of the findings of this study shows that the construction of ideas in the formulation of the four indicators of religious moderation in Indonesia has a normative-universal value base that becomes the ideology of the Indonesian nation, not the ideology of a particular religion or group.

Centering Justice in a Sustainable Food Systems Master's Program

The new Master of Science in Sustainable Food Systems (MSFS) program at Prescott College was re-envisioned as part of the preferred teach out partnership with Green Mountain College that closed in 2019. In collaboration with faculty from both colleges, the new MSFS program was developed to intentionally center social justice and offer students aFood Justiceconcentration. Food justice is a growing movement that seeks to shift global, industrial food systems toward more equitable, just, and sustainable foodways. Using this definition, students in theFood Justicecore course uncovered how forms of institutional oppression prevent certain communities from accessing healthy and culturally appropriate food. This course was designed and taught from an anti-racist, anti-colonial, and culturally sustaining pedagogical framework. TheFood Justicecourse frames students' investigation of the current food system and how issues of privilege, access, and identity relate to food justice throughout the MSFS program. Through experiential learning, students were asked to develop and implement a project that aligns with social justice values. In this perspective paper, we describe our experiences as sustainable food systems educators in making structural changes to the master's program. We share the values and assumptions that led to the development of theFood Justiceconcentration and course; detail our pedagogical frameworks; and highlight students' projects as a manifestation of the student experience.

Practical applications of a social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy: the relational equality in education framework (REEF)

ABSTRACT Recently there has been an increasing focus on the social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy. To ensure that this does not merely function as rhetoric, therapists must consider how to translate their social justice values into action. In this paper we aim to extend current understandings of social justice by foregrounding an emphasis on relational equality and power. We consider the importance of educational settings as a site of social justice action for therapists, and set out the Relational Equality in Education Framework as an illustration of how therapists might work to enhance relational equality in education on micro, meso and macro levels. Such efforts would ensure the social justice work of therapists takes an important shift from rhetoric to action.

Seeing “The Bigger Picture:” Impact of an Arts-Focused Type 2 Diabetes Education Program in High Schools

Traditional health education efforts rarely align with youth social justice values. The Bigger Picture (TBP), a spoken word arts campaign, leverages a social justice approach to activate youth around the social determinants of type 2 diabetes (T2D). This quasi-experimental study examines the impact of embedding TBP in urban, low-income high schools (3 intervention schools received TBP; 3 comparison schools received a non-health related spoken word program) with respect to (1) health-related mind-sets and expectations; (2) sense of belonging; and (3) civic engagement among youth. Adults and youth who participated in programming at all 6 schools were interviewed, and a content analysis of students’ poems was performed. TBP was well-received by adults and students. While students in both TBP and comparison programs described multiple social determinants of T2D, intervention students more frequently articulated the connections between race/ethnicity and T2D as a social justice issue. Further, all comparison students explicitly mentioned individual dietary behavior as a T2D determinant while most, yet not all, intervention students did. Students in both programs reported a high sense of belonging at school and confidence in civic engagement. Content analysis of TBP students’ poems revealed youth’s detailed understanding of T2D determinants. Future studies might explore program scalability, and how the integration of civic engagement opportunities into TBP curriculum might impact students’ capacity to create positive social change.

Christianity and the “Social Question” in N.А. Berdyaev’s and S.L. Frank’s Philosophical Works

The article analyzes and compares two interpretations of the “social question” and the ways of solving it as they are offered in the works of N.A. Berdyaev and S.L. Frank. A particular attention is paid to the connection between the “social question” and the problem of “Christian socialism”. While acknowledging the general importance of the social issues for the Christian mindset, both philosophers traced the origin of social injustice to the human nature rather than to the social structure. In both interpretations, in fact, the value of social justice is inferior in its hierarchal status to the value of Christian love. However, while they both rejected the socialist utopia of a “paradise on Earth” and the idea of a “Christian socialism”, Berdyaev and Frank radically diverged in their interpretation and assessment of socialism as a social system. This article highlights the fact that Berdyaev combines a criticism of the ideological claims concerning atheistic and materialist socialism with an uncritical acceptance of a number of socialist ideologies (e.g. “class struggle” and “exploitation”) and assumptions. Unlike Berdyaev, in interpreting the “social issue” Frank tended to distance himself from both classical liberalism (with its notions of private property, freedom, and state) and from socialism, which he considered as another ideological extremity. Frank’s social philosophy treats the thesis that the socialist system is more consistent and successful than others in tackling the “social issue” as an empirically dubious assumption. On the contrary, Berdyaev took this thesis for granted and used it as the starting point of his reasoning. This divergence, along with the fact that the same key terms were often used by the two philosophers in different (ideological) meanings, partly accounts for their differences in the interpretation of the “social question” and in the assessment of socialism.

Philosophical Values of Pancasila on the Intellectual Property Rights Regulation in Indonesia

Legal pluralism applied in Indonesia is expected to be able to build its own national law system based on the custom and cultures characteristics as a reflection of Indonesian nation’s soul (volkgeist). Indonesia custom and cultures adhered to the view of property acknowledgement, and also had social function. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is a part of property rights which had individual characteristic to monopolize proprietorship rights of intellectual works. IPR regime characteristic is completely different from Indonesia’s nation characteristic, which made Pancasila as life philosophy and nation’s ideology by prioritizing the balance between rights and social function. The type of research used in this study is legal normative research, with legal approach, conceptual approach and philosophical approach. As Indonesia’s philosophy of life, Pancasila contained the values of nation’s soul and legal ideals of Indonesia. As the legal ideals of Indonesia as well as staatsfundamentalnorm on the legislation hierarchy, the basic values of Pancasila must underlie and animate IPR legal development in Indonesia. Divine value, human value, unity value, deliberation value and social justice value are basic values that should animate the development of legal IPR in Indonesia. Keywords: IPR, Staatsfundamentalnorm, Pancasila, Social Function DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/113-04 Publication date: September 30 th 2021

Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice

Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice

Reclaiming the mission of academic medicine: An examination of institutional responses to (anti)racism.

The utility of institutional statements is said to provide clarity and reinforcement of an institution's goal. Unfortunately, it can also be argued that these statements are in clear misalignment between the words described and the environments that faculty, students, trainees, and staff of color face. The purpose of this study was to analyze academic medicine institutional statements that responded to 2020 racial tensions following the murders of George Floyd, among others, and the subsequent nationwide protests against police brutality. We conducted a manifest content analysis of institutional statements generated by academic medical centers after George Floyd's murder. We used manifest content analysis to gain insights into how institutional statements connect structural racism to the mission of academic medicine. We collected and examined institutional statements from 26 academic medicine centers. Selection parameters included statements that were publicly availableand published by the institutions during a 2-week period. We conducted a four-stage analysis: decontextualization, recontextualization, categorization, and compilation. To better understand the collection of statements, we plotted these institutional statements according to the most salient discussed themes. Overall, institutional statements discussed racism through three subthemes: identifying the racial implications of health disparities, issuing a call to action to address racism, and decentering race. Absent language is also noted. Second, institutional statements evoked institutional values by expressing an explicit connection with the academic medicine mission, naming the value of social justice, and emphasizing the concept of community. Finally, institutional statements largely discussed public health in connection with racism or with institutional values. Our study determines a much-needed reconnection to the mission of academic medicine. Reclaiming the social mission will be a major step toward recentering the foundation of institutional actions. This call is what ultimately will improve the health and well-being of marginalized populations.

Participatory research in a pandemic: The impact of Covid-19 on co-designing research with autistic people

Social work research should adopt a critical approach to research methodology, opposing oppression that is reproduced through epistemological assumptions or research methods and processes. However, traditional approaches to autism research have often problematised and pathologized autistic 1 individuals, reinforcing autistic people’s positions as passive subjects. This has resulted in autistic people being largely excluded from the production of knowledge about autism, and about the needs of autistic people. Participatory approaches promote collaborative approaches to enquiry and posit autistic people as active co-constructors of knowledge, a stance that is congruent with social work values of social justice and liberation. However, Covid-19 is not only altering our everyday life but also upending social research. This paper discusses the challenges faced by a participatory study involving autistic people during the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper examines how Covid-19 increased the individual vulnerability of autistic participants and changed their research priorities, increased the researcher’s decision-making power, and placed greater emphasis on barriers created by inaccessible methods. Covid-19 did not present novel challenges, but rather exacerbated existing tensions and inevitable challenges that are inherent in adopting an approach that aims to oppose oppression.

The Ecology of Meat

The Ecology of Meat

The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked

The characteristic features of some of the methodological strategies adopted in scientific research in agroecology are discussed. They reflect that agroecology, as an approach to scientific research, is inextricably entangled with the other strands of agroecology (farming practice, social movement, political project); and that adopting agroecological strategies, and upholding the values of environmental sustainability, food sovereignty, social justice and democratic participation, mutually reinforce each other. After outlining the kinds of questions that agroecological research addresses so that it can produce knowledge that informs agroecological farming practices and the long term aspiration of agroecological movements to create an alternative agricultural/food system, and then making summary remarks about methodological strategies in general, three characteristic features of some agroecological strategies are introduced and discussed. The paper concludes with comments on the value of agroecological research.

O5 Seeing the “Bigger Picture”: Impact of an Arts-Focused Type II Diabetes Education Program

<h3>Background</h3> Traditional health education efforts rarely align with youth social justice values. The Bigger Picture (TBP), a public health literacy campaign that uses spoken word art to promote health, leverages a social justice approach to activate youth around the social determinants of type 2 diabetes (T2D). <h3>Objective</h3> We examine the impact of TBP on health-related mindsets and expectations; sense of belonging; and civic engagement among youth in urban, low-income high schools. <h3>Study Design, Setting, Participants</h3> In this cluster-randomized study students from 3 high schools received a T2D-related arts-based program and students from 3 comparison schools received a non-health related arts-based program. Both programs were delivered in classrooms and extracurricular clubs over the course of 3 semesters (with the final semester modified due to coronavirus-related school closures). <h3>Measurable Outcome/Analysis</h3> We conducted interviews with adults (n = 32; 27 unique participants) and youth (n = 15) from both intervention and comparison schools who participated in programming. In addition, we performed a content analysis of student poems (n = 10) related to T2D in intervention schools. <h3>Results</h3> Students in both intervention and comparison schools listed factors like genetics, sugar consumption, diet, income, and neighborhood access to nutrition and physical activity as contributors to T2D. In more cases, however, students in intervention schools were able to draw connections between race/ ethnicity and poor access to basic health-promoting resources. Students in both programs had a high sense of belonging at school and confidence in civic engagement. One instance of T2D-related civic engagement was reported in intervention schools. Content analysis of TBP students' poems revealed youth's detailed understanding the role that government and corporate influence, access, individual behavior, and sociocultural factors play in developing T2D. <h3>Conclusion</h3> Future studies might explore program scalability, and how the integration of civic engagement opportunities into TBP curriculum might impact student's capacity to actively participate in creating social positive change around the social determinants of T2D.

The Role of Islamic Philanthropy Institutions in Realizing the 5th Core on Pancasila : The Role of Lazismu in Realizing The Values Of Social Justice

Pancasila is our philosophy and guideline in nation and state. In realizing the values ​​of Pancasila, it is very difficult because this nation is very large. Therefore, the State really needs help from civil society. Philanthropy is an activity to do good or give charity to others so as to bring prosperity to the community. A philanthropic activity is needed to flatten the welfare of the people. This paper contains the actions of one of the Islamic Philanthropy institutions namely Lazismu in combating poverty evenly throughout Indonesia. Lazismu is an Islamic Philanthropy organization under the auspices of Muhammadiyah. The institution is helping the government to realize social welfare as mandated by Pancasila. This paper uses qualitative methods and descriptive analysis. Lazismu's role in the distribution of people's welfare in its strategic programs is very helpful for the government. As a result, the Government and Lazismu along with other social movements can ground Pancasila values ​​in Indonesia, especially the 5th principle.

Intersection of Ubuntu pedagogy and social justice: Transforming South African higher education

Background: Universities, globally, and in South Africa, continue to be confronted with demands for transformation, humanisation of pedagogical practices and to embrace social justice.Aim: In this article, we bring to the surface possibilities of Ubuntu pedagogy within a social justice framework. We intersect Collective Fingers Theory and Social Justice Theory to propose the notion of Ubuntu pedagogy, which draws from African philosophy of Ubuntu. We argue that Ubuntu pedagogy provides an alternation to the current pedagogies that draw from European theories for teaching and learning in the South African higher education context. We put forward that, Ubuntu pedagogy, when embraced with understanding and dignity it deserves, has the potential, firstly, of initiating students from other cultures other than African cultures to the values of Ubuntu and, secondly, of reconnecting students with their values and cultures, but it has a capacity to cultivate social justice values of equity, recognition and fair participation amongst students from diverse social backgrounds.Setting: South African Higher Education.Methodology: The authors draw from literature to position the article within Ubuntu philosophical framework and social justice lenses. Themes emerging from literature are as follows: Intersection of Ubuntu philosophy and social justice, Ubuntu pedagogy and transformation in higher education and guiding principles for possible implementation of Ubuntu pedagogy.Results: At the intersection of Ubuntu pedagogy and social justice, classroom practices are designed to respond to students’ cultural competencies and to embrace all linguistic repertoires that students bring to the classroom for learning. Students are treated equally and with dignity and respect regardless of their social backgrounds.Conclusion: We argue that higher education classrooms in post-apartheid South Africa should enable equal access, equity and inclusivity for all students. We therefore recommend Ubuntu pedagogy as a culturally and socially just pedagogy for transformative higher education classrooms. This article contributes to the continuing dialogues about transformative pedagogies, decolonisation and social justice in South African higher education.

ZAKAT DAN KEADILAN SOSIAL: ANALISIS TERHADAP KITAB AL-AMWAL KARANGAN ABU UBAID

This research discusses the concept of zakat in Abu Ubaid's Kitab Al-Amwal. The purpose of this study is to analyze the existence of social justice in zakat. The research method that I use is a qualitative method with a literature review method. The result of this research is that zakat according to Abu Ubaid has esoteric values of social justice. Zakat instruments can alleviate poverty and stabilize state finances. To create social justice, the zakat instrument provides space for those in need. The space is not only a treasure. But also capital that can be used to start a business. In addition, in order to optimize zakat, the government must take part in maximizing the potential of zakat.

The Role of Islamic Philanthropy Institutions in Realizing the 5th Core on Pancasila : The Role of Lazismu in Realizing The Values of Social Justice

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Collaborative construction of a virtual agroecological fair between family farming and federal higher education institutions in the state of Goiás-Brazil

Alternative food networks have emerged in recent decades as a bottom-up social phenomenon and consist of food provision initiatives that seek to operate outside globalized industrial supply chains that incorporate the values of social justice, environmental sustainability, community health and democracy. In this sense, the present study aimed to analyze the contributions that the virtual agroecological fair action plan between family farming and federal institutions in the state of Goiás-Brazil brought to family farmers. The methodology is characterized by an action research both by the character of the collaborative construction action plan of an agroecological fair, and by the structure of development in which the insertion of authors is guided by the permanent collection of elements of the practice and, also, for the development of small interventions that help to elucidate the problems detected, through problematization and theoretical deepening. The Virtual Agroecological Interinstitutional Fair is held in an interinstitutional and collaborative way with family farmers with the appreciation of family farming of ecological Goiás basis and culminates in a path that enhances more sustainable territorial development with income generation, weaves an alternative for food supply and the promotion of the alternative food network “from the countryside to the city” in the face of socio-environmental rationality, in addition to a fairer and more equitable society, with the enhancement of biodiversity and the offer of food produced in the face of ecological practices.