Assignment: Social Problem Identification Report

Assignment: Social Problem Identification Report

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Tasks:

For this assignment, you will select a social problem that can be used as a basis to develop a proposal for advocating a policy and develop a 6- to 8-page paper on persuasive problem definition that can be used to garner support.

In your paper:

• Identify a social problem that can be used as a basis to develop a proposal for advocating a policy.
• Describe the background of the problem, the scope of the problem, the demographics of the population involved, and any supporting research data and statistics.
• Identify the stakeholders involved and availability and accessibility of necessary resources to solve the social problem.
• Explain the political climate relative to the issue and any ethical implications.
• Evaluate social policies and programs that are currently available and discuss their effectiveness in addressing your identified social problem.
• Discuss the levels of access you would need to pursue to advocate for your proposal.

Your final product will be a 6- to 8-page Microsoft Word document utilizing a minimum of four scholarly sources.

Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affect many or all members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both.

Social Problems is the official publication of the The Society for the Study of Social Problems. It is a quarterly journal published by University of California Press, in Berkeley, California. It was first published in 1953.

Some of the areas covered by the journal include: conflict, social action, and change; crime and juvenile delinquency; drinking and drugs; health, health policy, and health services; mental health poverty, class, and inequality; racial and ethnic minorities; sexual behavior, politics, and communities; youth, aging, and the life course. Among Sociology journals ranked by the Institute for Scientific Information, Social Problemswas ranked 5th, with an impact factor of 1.796.

A social problem is a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. Everyone would agree about some social problems, such as murders and DWI traffic deaths. Other social problems may be viewed as such by certain groups of people. Teenagers who play loud music in a public park obviously do not view it as a problem, but some other people may consider it an undesirable social condition. Some nonsmokers view smoking as an undesirable soc