Descriiption of Portfolio
Your Social Justice Portfolio is essentially going to be a cumulative presentation of your five discussion posts, with any additions you may need to include to make sure you demonstrate your achievement of the course learning objectives. Your portfolio should be a mixture of subjective responses and objective argument using concepts you learned in this class. You will respond to several questions in the instructions, most of which can be taken from your discussion posts (DPs).
Instructions
Using what you have learned from reading the text, watching the video clips associated with a topic, and selecting your social justice theme, respond to the questions below.
What do you understand to be a “Psychology of Social Justice”? How might it be different from a “Sociology of Social Justice” or a “Ethnic Studies Perspective of Social Justice”? (DP 3 and DP 5)
Pick a topic or theme in social justice which you would like to address in your social justice plan. (DP 3)
Using the two papers you selected to read for this project, describe its relevance to your topic. Use the information in these two papers throughout your discussion. (DP 4, DP 5)
What are some theories, philosophical ideas, and/or historical developments associated with your topic? Briefly discuss this as your context, using the language of Bronfenbrenner’s systems and the cycle of socialization language (DP 3, DP 5)
Compare and contrast these theories with regard to their characteristics of oppression and characteristics of liberation (DP 3, DP 5)
What are some stereotypes that are in the literature, media, news, or other sources of information that oppressive systems have used to justify their oppression of the groups you have selected to focus on? (DP 3, DP 5)
What intersectionalities of oppression do you identify in the group(s) you have selected to focus on? (DP 3, DP 4, DP 5)
What are some major current trends relating to your topic, with regard either to oppression or towards social justice? Briefly identify them (DP 4, DP 5)
What are some cultural factors impacting whether people are oppressed or liberated from oppression in this area? (DP 3, DP 5)
Who are some current and historical local and global leaders who have fought on behalf of an oppressed group in your topic? Identify at least one historical (local and global) and one current (local and global) leader whose example you would like to follow. (DP 4)
How do you plan to ‘interrupt’ the oppressive system you have selected to analyze? (DP 4, DP 5)
How does your positionality help or hurt in this regard? (DP 2)
What personal character traits, attitudes, and values will help you be successful in interrupting the system of oppression you have selected to interrupt? (DP 3, DP 4, DP 5)
What emotions, character traits, and values do you believe might prevent you from being successful in your social justice activity? (DP 3, DP 5)
What steps can you take to help you overcome these challenges, and have a “Yes, AND” attitude? (DP 3, DP 4, DP 5)
Prepare your portfolio in a Word or other word-processing document, then run it through a spell-check and grammar-check program (e.g., Grammarly).
Save the file using the following format: PSY 3250 Portfolio_LastnameFirstinitial (e.g., PSY 3250 Portfolio_FernandoG).
In a new post, use the “Reply” button at the bottom of this page and give a brief summary of your social justice project, why you selected the project, and what changes you hope to see from your work. This post doesn’t have to be more than 3 sentences; the details will be in the file you will upload.
