Answer to Question #311685 in Sociology for TLITLI

Question

- As an aspiring sociologist, you are tasked to identify 5 different sources of data on a social problem reported in popular news print and/or electronic media with the aim to use these together with information from at least 2 journal articles enabling you to write a 5-page report for officials of Local Government who aim later to distribute the winning report at their annual meeting. In your report, the following should be clearly included:

• Identify the actual social problem with an explanation of what it is and its prevalence in a specific community.

• Use the four elements of a social to motivate why you believe your chosen problem can be viewed as a social problem.

• Reflect on four implications this problem poses for community life.

• Propose a few suggestions on how the social problem can be managed and its impact minimised. (50)

Answer 1

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