Culture & Society are about who we are, they provide is with the social framework within which we live our lives. Culture is the threads that join us together - the attitudes and values, habits, customs, behaviours, history, folklores and institutions that are shared by a particular social group or organisation. When you put all those different cultural groups together you have society.
Sustainable development strives to achieve a ‘perfect world’, one we can all agree on and which provides for us now and in the future. In this world there is no place for oppression and injustice, so it comes as no surprise that Social Equity is one of the four pillars of sustainable development.
Lookie here! The new Grand Theft Auto has hit the stores, creating its expected uproar of social controversy. Is it just a game or does it create a ‘mean world’?
From a series of writing workshops, 4 young New Zealanders capture what it was like for them in the middle of violent conflict; and what their life is now like in a completely new place.
In August the Just Write team got together and recorded a live radio show at Kfm, on Karangahape Rd in Auckland. They focused on the power of music to challenge, encourage and create positive change.
Something’s missing amidst all the discussion of the most pressing environmental problems of the times…