Category: Social Science – Sociology

  Describe the role of peer relationships on the development of feeding and eating disorders in adolescence.   Describe the role of social media and body shaming on feeding and eating disorders in adolescence. Identify one website addressing the phenomenon of pro anorexia and describe the content (provide the webpage URL). Why might adolescents be drawn […]

This week, you will submit a rough dr a f t . Choose your favorite short answer question from the worksheets in weeks 2 and 3 and develop it into a draft e-ssay of at least  four hundred words. Here are the t opic  options:What does the term cultural universals mean? What are some examples […]

  Review the Learning Resources on identifying research problems and developing research questions. Consider the problem that you would like to study in your proposed research, the gap in knowledge that it addresses, and how it connects to social work practice.  

  Review the Learning Resources on social development and identity.  Watch the Big Mama documentary in the Learning Resources. Consider the influences of both peers and family on a childs identity development.

Scenario: The city of Erickson has allocated 4 million dollars to develop an outpatient mental health treatment center for people in the community who are homeless. They have asked you to recommend two best practice methods for the new service. Formulate a research question based on what you have been asked to do in this […]

In Kingdon Chapter 10, the author discusses three policy case studies to highlight the importance of the policy streams which we discussed at the beginning of class. Talk about the so-called Reagan Revolution. What is it? What is its relationship to all three streams of policy and how did they come together and flow through […]

Social welfare programs are often associated with the federal government, but they also illustrate the importance of state power in our system. Why do federally funded social welfare programs vary from state to state? Use one program (either means-tested or non-means tested) as an example. Use two paragraphs.

In dismantling the Cabrini Green public housing complex, Chicago sought to disrupt a culture of poverty and introduce residents to a middle-class way of life. Explain two problems with (or unintended consequences of) demolishing Cabrini Green as a poverty reduction strategy. For this question, do not reference an assigned text; instead, reference the assigned documentary […]

Submit your updated Library Searching document from last week, adding at least three new peer-reviewed research articles for a total of six. Ensure that you have referenced the articles in APA Style. Include a brief explanation of each articles appropriateness to your topic.

  Review the Learning Resources on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Review the Hernandez family case in the Social Work Case Studies interactive media.  Download the Pediatric ACEs and Related Life Events Screener and use it to complete this Assignment.