ABSTRACT
Universities are beginning to offer classes and degrees in social justice, and positions in a variety of contexts are opening to accommodate those specialties. Furthermore, the locus of much of the discourse around social justice seems to be taking place on the internet in forums, blogs, and social media via tweets, posts, memes, and emojis. Contemporary social justice movements claim that social justice means the removal of barriers for social mobility, social support, and an equitable distribution of wealth. A. C. Ornstein claims that issues of social justice within the social sciences begins in the 1960s, with scientists and scholars attempting to consider issues of class and caste. This of course coincided with the various civil rights movements at the time, and soon social justice became associated with issues pertaining to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and physical and mental healthThe chapter also presents an overview of the k. ey concepts discussed in this book.
