Theory: We must stay vigilante when looking at mortality, injustice, and morality, to correct and prevent oppression and maintain human dignity to not alienate and dehumanize ourselves and each other. If we fail to create meaning through these venues, all hope is lost because there is no other meaning than what we create.
Source: Robbins, S., Chatterjee, P., & Canda, E. (2012). Contemporary human behavior theory: A critical perspective for social work (3rd ed., p. 383). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Apply: Community organizing is creating meaning by challenging injustices. It's absurd that children starve, that folks fear for their lives everyday, or that people believe that a human's worth is based on their paycheck but that's the world we live in and we face it.
Adapt: Who cares? Realistically, this is something, if there were such a thing as inherent human values, that everybody should recognize, to some extent. We only get one life, what right do we have to add any level of misery to another person's life? What right do we have to allow folks to be homeless? But, we do. We lock our doors and close our blinds, worried about myths that prey on our fear.
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