Alright everyone! This entry might be a bit crazy but forgive me this is my first time doing any of this blog business thing. Anyways! The social justice/injustice articles really opened my eyes. In that sense I mean, when I first decided to consider becoming a social worker I knew that there was injustice thus, I wanted to help everyone struggling with it. When I read Pelton's article I was shocked when he pointed out that when you look at group differences instead of commonalities you are creating discrimination (Pelton 2001, 436). However it leaves me thinking if we don't consider the differences of groups how would we know what they need? Another question that arose was the one about groups. So if we should not group people to implicate an intervention then how would we be able to reach out to the greater population? Pelton said we should focus on the individual but our population in this world is of 7 billion how would we be able to reach out to so many people? Everyone needs multiple needs not just simply food or money ect. I am not trying to say we should stick to only doing group focus but of course individual needs too but in order to reach our population we would need to look in macro level terms and also consider helping the other people who have not been included in this intervention processes. I leave you with a quote from Scalon "Coalition building and political activism require that interest groups be able to identify some benefit for the expenditure of time and...capital in pursuit of justice for others (Scalon and Longres).
Im excited to further discuss this in class Monday!
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