Justice and Work: two words that mean so much more...

After reading and then rereading several points brought up in the readings, one thing kept coming to my mind... the words justice and work mean so much. Used in every day conversations, reading and writings so frequently I feel like I have almost become numb to the importance and power each word possesses. Social work and social justice mean so much to me, yet at the same time are forever meaning something new. Pelton, Scanlon, and Longres, discuss ideas that stem from social justice and the impact connected with social work.

One part, though small, that impacted me the most while reading came from a small paragraph Pelton wrote, talking about social workers. Pelton said "Moreover, we must consider—somewhere in the curriculum, perhaps in practice and policy courses as well as human behavior courses—that social work, whose mission is social justice, will nonetheless be called upon to work within the unjust systems that many social policies based on group constructs have set up."

Learning and growing in the field of social work, I hope to not become numb to what justice and work mean and the actions that have to occur with those words. Knowing the field, policies and group constructs within social work will help for us to become the most influential and wide spread impact on society and those around us.