chapter 1 in social justice issues in local and global contexts

Author: Cahrles Quist-Adade

The first chapter in the social justice issues in local and global contexts book talks about many things such as critical thinking and how in society people need to think critically and how we people need to understand the nature of things and look in to the reasons behind other peoples behaviours and cultures without judging them because there is always something behind what appears to be.  Also how we need to accept new and different ideas and have an opened minded, this chapter also talked about human rights and justice which is the equality and fairness between all humans with different back grounds, color, gender. it also talked about the norms and how people are born to rely on each other to survive and how life and society is constantly changing, also that we have to know that there is no gender without race and no race without gender and no class without gender either. It also talked about how our chances in life are based on our gender, race and class but not in all cases for example someone poor could actually have the chance in life to be rich, and a rich person is not guaranteed to live rich for the rest of his or her life. It also talked about that we have four types of ideology which are dominant, reformist, radical and counter. And about the sociological imagination which is the capacity, ability and equality of mind with allows people to interact with others and how sociological imagination includes the problems and issues of society and how our actions and interactions takes place withen the context of social structures.