Critically discuss how the impacts of climate change and or natural disasters on urban populations are shaped by social inequalities.

Social sciences,cities in the global south

3,500 words (excluding bibliography)

Choose one of the following questions:

1. Drawing on at least ONE example from a city in the Global South, critically discuss how middle class politics can reproduce socio spatial inequalities.

2. Can the city be a place of opportunities for women or for reproducing gendered inequalities? Use Delhi as a case study to illustrate your answer.

3. Critically discuss how the impacts of climate change and or natural disasters on urban populations are shaped by social inequalities. In your answer, use at least ONE example from a city in the Global South

Discuss how to access information and support on knowledge and best practice relevant to your work.

Reflective

How to access and work to procedures and agreed ways of working

Principles of reflective practice and why it is important

Promote health, safety and security in the work setting

Knowledge

Practices for safe moving and handling

National and local guidance on falls prevention and factors that impact on falls

Principles of risk assessment and risk management

Develop your practice through reflection and learning

Knowledge

Your role and the role of others in evaluating and developing your skills and knowledge through supervision and appraisal or other arrangements

The range of learning opportunities and how to access them

Principles of reflective practice and why it is important

Discuss how to access information and support on knowledge and best practice relevant to your work

What is the shared undesirable condition faced by people who have this problem?What must they face that other people don’t have to?

Social problems

Identify any social problem and analyze it using the objective and subjective criteria in the first chapter of your textbook. Why does it qualify as a “social problem” as defined within sociology?

You should discuss the following points:

What is the shared undesirable condition faced by people who have this problem?What must they face that other people don’t have to?

Who are the people (the social group) who have this problem?

By whom is the problem recognized as a problem? Are there others who deny that it is a problem?

Your submission should be a minimum of 700 words in length and should reflect consideration of course materials and previous lessons.

Demonstrate detailed knowledge and systematic understanding of planning and managing a critical literature review.

Social work research question

Write a critical review of literature (10 – 12 articles) on a chosen theme related to social work (The question will be stated below)

Research question which the paper needs to be based around is;

The effects of BAME children with mental health in the youth justice system?

Length: 8000 words (not including abstract, references or appendices)

The Critical Literature Review must contain (please follow this structure):

Abstract (not part of the word count) maximum 100 words

Introduction (here you are encouraged to support your rationale for your literature review topic with references from other literature/research/scholarship)

Methodology

Findings: Outline and analysis of key themes

Implications for social work provide consideration of the relevance/implications of the findings to social work practice, including recommendations (include other literature, research, scholarship sources to support your points)

Conclusion

Appendices (can include search table, article summaries, synthesis table and theme index)

Overall Criteria:

Demonstrate research writing abilities,reporting on literature and findings to produce a coherent and structured piece of work.

Demonstrate detailed knowledge and systematic understanding of planning and managing a critical literature review

Demonstrate links between research design, implementation and outputs, and evidence based social work practice.

Relevant and correct use of references

Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural and behavioural expectations of studying for a degree in business and management.

E-portfolio and SWOT analysis

Understand the importance of a reflective approach to learning within Business and Management discipline

Demonstrate an ability to use feedback and feedforward as an integral to inform and improve future formative and summative assessed work

Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural and behavioural expectations of studying for a degree in business and management.

Explain the importance of peer-to-peer support and team working to enhance learning experience.

This assignment requires you to demonstrate what you have learnt from the module, how your learning will impact further studies and future careers and create SMART objectives to action the learning that has taken place with regards to reflective learning,use of formative feedback,future implications,action plans and SWOT analysis relating to student and produce E-Portfolio.

Describe how social behaviour and experience can be understood through psychological and psychosocial theories,to the benefit of the practice of social and community practitioners,relational practitioners,and youth workers.

Human Growth and Development

How human beings grow and change over their lives – emotionally, psychologically and intellectually; and

Describe how social behaviour and experience can be understood through psychological and psychosocial theories,to the benefit of the practice of social and community practitioners,relational practitioners,and youth workers.

2500 words with citiations with the references.

The title of the essay is:

“Compare and contrast two psychological theories relating to Human Growth and Development”

assignment written in 3rd person.

What were the issues that might be raised about personal and professional values that were relevant to you or the social worker in the scenario?

Reflection on your own experience and practice, and how this would inform your work with the family in the case study.
The integration of any knowledge or theory that was, or could have been, used to inform practice.
Your understanding of the skills that social workers need to develop and use to meet the needs of the family and work with them in an effective way.
Your understanding of the social worker’s role in relation to this family, applying what you have learned from the module in an analytical way.

What were the issues that might be raised about personal and professional values that were relevant to you or the social worker in the scenario?

Include one screenshot showing something that you think has helped you consider the issues in the case study, for example, a website or web page.

Discuss how the family support practitioner could work in an anti-oppressive manner that is in line with the value of social justice with the family/ family member.

Students should carry out the following in their assessment:

Using at least two of the sociological theories/concepts discussed in this module (functionalism, Marxism, feminism, Critical Race theory, Queer theory, labelling theory, social constructivism, Goffman’s concept of stigma, moral panics, social model of disability), explore the theme of social injustice in relation to the family/ chosen family member

Describe how at least one piece of social policy or piece of legislation (recent Welfare Reforms/Equality Act 2010/ Human Rights Act 1998) might either promote or impede social justice with the family/family member

Discuss how the family support practitioner could work in an anti-oppressive manner that is in line with the value of social justice with the family/ family member.

Reflect on their learning on social justice and how this has influenced their personal and professional value based

Demonstrate an ability to use feedback and feedforward as an integral to inform and improve future formative and summative assessed work.

E-portfolio and SWOT analysis

Word counts given below are a guide ensure to stay within the maximum word count i.e. 1500.
Direct citations of not more than 1 sentence are not included in your word count use your research wisely.
Information in blue ink is only a guide to demonstrate one way of meeting the criteria of the assignment and remaining within the wordcount.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the importance of a reflective approach to learning within Business and Management discipline.

Demonstrate an ability to use feedback and feedforward as an integral to inform and improve future formative and summative assessed work.

Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural and behavioural expectations of studying for a degree in business and management.

Explain the importance of peer-to-peer support and team working to enhance learning experience.