TY - JOUR AU - Muñoz, Ed PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Social Justice in the 21st Century JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/social-justice-in-the-21st-century SP - AB - This course is most appropriate for students interested in diversity and committed to social justice. Although the course’s selected readings focus on U.S. racial/ethnic groups, there will be significant opportunity for discussion of similar social phenomena in other countries of the world as this course promotes the idea that the world is increasingly interconnected and interdependent. Equally important, we will examine how gender, socio-economic status, and other personal characteristics interact to produce different life experiences. It is the recognition and understanding of our diversity that empowers us to act knowledgeably in an ongoing commitment to social, economic, and political justice for an increasingly complex transnational society. We will cover a number of topics ranging from identity, critical thinking, empowerment, role models, stereotyping, institutional discrimination, and tolerance through an interdisciplinary study of people and society. The key lynchpin is active participation in the development and maintenance of socially, economically, and politically just communities, whether it be at the local, regional, national, and/or global level. ER -