Question One
Format: Essay
Word count: 1500
How to apply might apply this new knowledge in their future professional work as a social worker when working with the Indigenous people of Australia.
Include the following discussions:
· Indigenous Australians and their attachment with land (500 words)
· Indigenous Identity and Indigenous wellbeing (500 words)
· Working with Indigenous community and importance of being culturally appropriate and sensitive (500 words)
A comprehensive essay will include:
– Scholarly discussion of learning, including Indigenous perspectives of learning
– Reflection on how your learning or knowledge has changed or developed over the course of the unit –
How this new found understanding or learning has, or hasn’t, changed your world view –
How this new understanding or knowledge will be applied in a professional context
Minimum References: 10
Question Two
n this discussion forum, you will address the idea of biased language and how it impacts attitudes, behaviours, and perceptions, especially in online interactions. Attitudes refer to liking or disliking something, behaviours describe actions people do (speaking, moving, etc.), and perception relates to how humans think or process information or stimuli.
For your initial post, you must do the following:
- Use and cite Bevan (Section 4.1) to define and explain biased language.
- Share an example of biased language you have seen in some computer-mediated interaction.
- Answer the following three questions:
- How does biased language reflect the attitudes, behaviours, and perception of the sender?
- How might biased language impact the attitudes, behaviours, and perception of the receiver of the content, and/or the sender, or both?
- What is the significance of biased language in computer-mediated contexts specifically?
For this discussion forum, your initial post should be 300 to 350 words in length.
Question Three
- List three sleep and rest practices that you could use with children that are consistent with approved standards and meet individualized needs. Access ACECQA Safe sleep practices to assist with your response. At the end of your response, from the National Quality Standard component of the National Quality Framework, identify which quality area, standard and element relate to meeting children’s needs for sleep, rest and relaxation. (30-50 words)
Question Four
In approaching this case study, you are to take on the fictional position of one of the following: a) a defence activist, b) a prosecutorial activist, c) a police activist, d) a court activist, or e) a victim activist. Taking on this position, you are to analyse one of the following contemporary criminal justice cases from your chosen perspective:
- The conviction of George Pell
- The conviction of Bore Rostovsky
- The over-representation of people with acquired brain injury in the CJS
- The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the CJS
In undertaking your case study, you are to provide an overview of your chosen case (who, what, when, where), and outline various criminal justice issues from your activist position. Provide recommendations as to how the issues you identify can be properly addressed. Use evidence and examples to support your claims.
Position: Insert your chosen position here (e.g. defence activist)
Case Study: insert your chosen case study (e.g. George Pell)
Question Five
Understanding the Society
Case Study: Coronavirus, social change and social inequality
As discussed in the week 12 module, the coronavirus pandemic and its effects can be understood as an example of rapid, global social change. This is well summarized in the following article from one of your week 12 online learning activities:
https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2020/04/15/1380013/how-covid-19-is-changing-the-world
In response to the serious health risks posed by the spread of coronavirus, people from around the world are experiencing an adjustment in their work and study practices, social interactions and capacity to travel. The unprecedented impacts of the pandemic, including national ‘lock downs’, have severely impacted employment and therefore social and national economies. Social change and how coronavirus are reshaping individual lives, communities, governments and broader society, are topics of interest for sociologists. So too is the data that reveals the differential ways that in which the impacts of coronavirus are felt. In short, coronavirus heralds social change, but it also highlights existing social issues and inequalities throughout societies.
With this in mind, students are asked to read the following articles, which form the basis of a ‘coronavirus case study’:
Question:
Having considered the issues raised in the above articles, which form the basis of the case study, and drawing on AT LEAST 4 ACADEMIC SOURCES, students will provide a 1000-word response to the following question:
What does the coronavirus pandemic reveal about power and/or structure and agency, and the enduring nature of social inequality?
Detailed Instructions:
- When writing you response, be sure to explain each of your chosen key concepts with reference to relevant academic literature (your readings from the unit are a good place to start).
- You might opt to consider power, structure and agency and social inequality; or you might choose to look at power and social inequality; or structure and agency and social inequality. The choice is yours.
- Once you have explained what each of the key concepts you have chosen to examine refers to, then you should apply them to the coronavirus case study. This means drawing on examples from the articles above and analyzing them sociologically.
- In other words, you must think about what is presented in the media articles and then consider how the sociological reading you have undertaken, and the concepts and theories discussed therein, help you to make sense of what is observed.
- Your response should be written in an essay style, meaning it should contain an introduction, body and conclusion.
- Your response should be referenced using Harvard referencing.
- You must use a minimum of 4 academic sociological sources to support your discussion, which need to be cited in the body of your text and included in a reference list.
- Any of the empirical examples from the case study that you refer to or draw upon should also be referenced appropriately.
Length of submission: 1000 words (+/- 10%)
Value: 30%
Learning Outcomes:
This assessment responds to unit learning outcomes 3, 4 and 5, which are to:
- Identify relevant sources and assess approaches to and claims about social processes and institutions in contemporary society.
- Apply a sociological understanding of power, social inequality and social change to case study materials.
- Demonstrate reading, writing and referencing skills commensurate with university scholarship.