About social justice: Sandy Hutchens
Social justice is a concept relating to the level of fairness or justice in a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens and other aspects of equality. The concept is different from that of justice in law, which may not always be deemed moral in practice, or from the idea of justice within an ideological system, which tends to focus on due process rather than on basic equality. Support for social justice is increasingly a platform of newer political movements. Social justice arises when equals are treated as equalls.
Historically, authors have used literature to promote social justice or to satirize social injustice within their societies. Examples include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Minfong Ho, Victor Hugo, Harper Lee, James A. Michener, Harold Pinter, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Alan Paton, and George Orwell.
Social justice is promoted when certain barriers are removed that prevent full social justice. Some of the major barriers include: prejudice, discrimination, oppression, racism, classism, ableism, ageism, and sexism. Over the past decades, most social justice in the US and the world has arisen when economic class and access to non-violent mechanisms for reform by the middle class and working class. In order to truly promote equality these barriers must be removed from our society and differences to equality of human outcomes must be embraced.