Date of Award
Fall 12-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Geosciences
First Advisor
Katherine B. Hankins
Second Advisor
Kate Derickson
Third Advisor
Leslie A. Edwards
Abstract
As provision of social services is increasingly handled by the non-profit sector, specifically through faith-based organizations (FBO's), current scholarship has suggests that FBOs have the possibility to either reinforce neoliberal ideology or progress social justice. This study provides an examination of the shift in conceptions of justice for participants in the Mission Year program, an FBO program naming justice as a goal. For the participants, this experience creates a new understanding of the causes of poverty, injustice and American culture which I name 'justice as knowing.' This understanding culminated within participants a desire to “live out justice” as ‘intentional neighbors’ by relocating to a high-poverty neighborhood, reconciling racial relations by building relationships, and contributing to a redistribution of wealth by investing resources in a high-poverty neighborhood. I call this action ‘justice as doing.’ Participants shift from liberal-based notions justice, rooted in liberalism, toward more equity-based conceptions of justice as fairness.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/3490185
Recommended Citation
Dahl, Traci L., "Shifting Conceptions of Social Justice in Faith-Based Care Workers as a Result of the Mission Year Program." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2012.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/3490185