Select a social issue of interest to yourself. Potential areas of interest include: poverty, racism, child welfare, disabilities, mental health, sexual identity/gender identity, housing, and violence.
It is important you narrow down your social issue for your final topic it is helpful to narrow your focus and to think about the social issue, the population who is more likely to be affected by the social issue directly and what specific problems arise from the social issue.
Narrow you topic so that you do not risk writing a general issue paper versus a detailed analysis of the social issue that also includes up to date and relevant statistical analysis. Your analysis should include:
Social issue chosen was Poverty intersection with Patriarchy/sexism
Population: low income mothers
Problem: Intimate Partner Violence, why they don’t leave.
Essay should focus on poverty in Canada and how it’s affects the targeted population and problem
• why this is a social issue ( think of goals of social work and how this represents what is public and political given extent of issue. What intersections are key)
• who is affected (demographic information and quantitive data)
• how they are affected and what specific problems are they more likely to experience (be specific and not just analysis i.e., Racism versus how data shows ______ problem in living)
• what social, political and economic forces are contributing to/producing/ maintaining the issue
• what are the different ideological perspectives on the issue?
• what strategies for change are being initiated?
• What changes are not being addressed from a social justice perspective?
