Understanding social justice in everyday life both in experimental and critical research can provide ideas and concepts that will contribute to social identity, knowledge and practices. Social construction, attribution theory, and distributive justice are some ideas and concepts necessary for theoretical, substantive and transformative work within social justice. The experience of justice is at the heart of everyday life and so, provides a vital lens for everyday life through pertinent social psychological processes. Social construction is a perspective which offers an explanation for how the world is constructed through social practices, as well as the means by which the world comes to be experienced as a natural and fixed reality. Social construction affects our social perspective because the knowledge people produce in their minds is thought to be communicated to, or exchanged with, others through social interactions. Because people give meaning and interpret the world through social construction, our idea or perception of social justice can mean different things in different situations. For example, I don’t eat bugs and worms because my concept of doing this is ‘gross’ (my application of the concept of …show more content…
Models (dispositional or situational attributions) show how people perceive each other, and in particular how they account for each other's behaviour. For example, if someone is rude to me I sometimes make a dispositional attribution to that person’s personality, rather than considering (situational) factors that might have caused that person to be rude in the first place. Attribution theory is important for social justice because it can influence an observer's feelings about events that have occurred in the past, expectations with regards to future events, conceptions of himself and attitude towards other