Chapter three in social justice issues in local and global contexts

Chapter three social justice and the social construction of inequality and difference, in social justice issues in local and global contexts book talks about inequalities and differences between people how they are reinforced in our society. It talked about how people seem to find themselves more comfortable living around people with the same culture, religion and language. It also talked about how power and the power of control, race, gender, and class could result and lead to inequality in our society, for example: talking about classicism, how a high class group of people can control and have power over a hall population because of the amount of money they have. Another example is about racism as how in the United States white Americans used to differentiate between themselves and black Americans by believing that they should not exist only because of their color which they were born with, this also created inequality in society. These examples don’t only lead to equality they also violate human rights, because the decisions that these people made have affected those victim’s lives and made them suffer as well. This chapter also talked about oppression and the types of oppression, such as the internalized oppression which is directed at oneself. The last thing it talked about is stereotyping which is as the American journalist Walter lipmann said, that the imagination is shaped by the picture seen, for example if a Chinese person have been seen by an individual littering on the street and this individual believed that all Chinese people do the same thing, than it’s is called stereotyping and this could lead to racism.