Answer to Question #307393 in Sociology for Anelisiwe

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. The officials aim to distribute the winning report at their next 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 problem 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 it's impact minimised.

Answer 1

The actual social problem is poverty.

The elements of poverty as a social problem that motivated to choose it are;

• It causes mental damage to individuals or society.
• It offends the values or standards of some powerful segment of society.
• It persists for an extended period of time.
• It generates competing proposed solutions because of varying evaluations from groups in different social positions within society.

People living in poverty struggle to meet basic needs, including having limited access to food, clothing, healthcare, education, shelter, and safety. People affected by poverty may also lack social, economic, political, or material income and resources.

Develop and implement rapid and sustained economic growth policies and programs, in areas such as health, education, nutrition, and sanitation, allowing the poor to participate and contribute to the growth. One of the main causes of extreme poverty is the marginalization of the systemic barriers that lead to groups of people going without representation in their communities. In order for a community or country to work its way out of poverty, all groups must be involved in the decision-making process especially when it comes to having a say in the things that determine your place in society. Poverty is most likely to occur when there is a high combination of marginalization and risk with the risk being its own combination of a person or group’s level of vulnerability and the hazards they face.