Social Justice among Adolescents and Rural Community: A Psycho-Social Perspective

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of transition between childhood and adulthood. It is a phase
of life marked by special attributes including rapid physical growth and development;
physical, social and psychological maturity. The present review focuses on adolescents’
social perspective taking in context of social justice as demonstrated by their awareness
and interpretations.In this paper, focus is laid on literature related to mental health
and social justice, social perspective that contributes to our knowledge of adolescents’
development of comprehensions of social diversity. It provides the theoretical empirical
background for observing adolescents’ perspective taking capacities in context of social
justice. Another part of this paper is focused on different problems and social injustice
towards adolescents’ which is one of the critical problems of world today.Social justice
is defined as “promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity.”
It exists when “all people share a common humanity and therefore have a right to
equitable treatment, support for their human rights, and a fair allocation of community
resources. Social justice is generally equated with the notion of equality or equal
opportunity in society. Although equality is undeniably a part of social justice, the
meaning of social justice is much broader. Further, this review focuses upon problems
the adolescents of rural community, what type of psychosocial problems they are facing
and why they are not being benefited by governmental policies and programmes.