Social Justice, Equal Rights and Freedom: Pillars of Democracy

Running head: SOCIOLOGY
Sociology
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2SOCIOLOGY
A democratic society is basically a social environment in which the people of the society
are allowed to behave according to their will. Everyone in the society has the right to get the
justice because they are free and they share the equal rights with all other people in the society.
The Government applies various social policies that are important for the overall development of
the society and securing the well being of the people (Hursh & Ross, 2014). The maintenance of
all these things within the jurisdiction of society is significant indeed. Equality should also be
maintained for every person irrespective of their color, race, ethnicity or religion. The laws
should be same and everyone should abide by all those laws.
In a democratic society, all the people have the rights of equality and being treated in the
similar manner. Every person is free and they can act as per their own accord indeed. The
concept is equal rights is central when the discussion is on the social rights of the people
(Rosanvallon, 2014). No person should be mistreated or treated differently. Basically, this
suggests that anyone should not be given any sort of additional facilities because of his or her
social status, skin color, ethnicity or economic background (Hursh & Ross, 2014). The concept
of equality within the democratic society is about the economic or political equality.
When a government facility is being implemented on the families, they should not make
discriminations between people if one is very poor and the other is rich. Irrespective of their
economic background, they should be given the equal rights (Tyler et al., 2019). On the other
hand, the concept of social justice should be applied equally as well. When an economically poor
person faces an accident in the streets, he should be admitted to the nearby medical facilities and
treatment should begin without categorizing him as a poor person (Sensoy & DiAngelo, 2014).
The class and racial divisions should come under this context as well.