Sociology is a course that is offered at many institutions of higher learning.  It is a course that involves a lot of reading, theorizing and writing papers on various issues that touch on day to day life. Students pursuing a degree in Sociology will quite often be required to pick […]

socially excluded children and/or adolescents You have been asked to devise a set of guidelines giving general advice to practitioners working with socially excluded children and/or adolescents with mental health difficulties. You have been asked to focus your advice to one or more kinds of social ex You have been […]

Paper 1 – Politics of Poverty and U.S. Social Welfare Policy (1) The Presidential election is upon us. You are a key policy advisor to either the Obama campaign or Romney campaign. The candidate you are working for is thinking about giving poverty and inequality considerable attention. He is also […]

Is the Family Changing? One of the most significant social trends in recent decades is changing understandings of what constitutes a family. What is your definition of the term family? Does it just mean blood relations or can family also include those who are included because of friendship? Does this […]