Social justice is concerned with how wealth, opportunities, resources, and privileges are allocated within a community. We believe John Rawls’ “Original Position Theory” is the best tool for understanding our view of social justice.

If you were to create a society and you didn’t know what position you would hold in that society as far as race, class, sex, gender, physical and mental abilities, etc. What safeguards would you put in place for all individuals knowing you could end up at the very bottom? What rules of protection would you create knowing that you may very well lack all capacity to defend yourself from others?

Well, we don’t have to pretend. Everyday we construct a world that will dictate how things go for future generations. Maybe you won’t be minority, poor, disabled, etc. in this lifetime, but you do not know where you kids, grandkids, great grandkids, etc. will end up. We owe it to ourselves and every other member of the human species to advocate for social justice where it can be found.

Social justice is the search for a world that produces equitable outcomes for all. Social justice advocacy is taking what you find from your search and turning it into an action plan. While social justice may be a bit abstract, other forms of justice that make up the concept of social justice are more direct. We consider three forms of justice to make up social justice: distributive, procedural, and interactional.