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.