Assignment:
Your answers to the following should be thorough and documented where appropriate. Please make sure to answer each question in the orderin which they are presented below. The response number must correspond the question number. Also, each page must be numbered.
1. What is the social problem you plan to studying? Explain why it meets Zastrow's definition.
2. Why you are interested in is problem?
3. Describe the groups and the geographical locations that are directly and indirectly affected by the problem. (Past, present, and future; and the ripple effect.)
4. Discuss the history of the problem: when, where, how, and by whom was it first identified? Why was it perceived to be a problem?
5. Why was the problem not addressed earlier? What groups resisted or opposed solving or correcting this problem?
6. What social justice principles can be used to argue for a solution to the problem? Explain fully.
7. What levels of government are authorized to address the problem? Explain.
8. Given the levels of government authorized to act on the problem, which elected and appointed (commissioners, secretaries) officials would be appropriate to correct this problem? Explain.