This assignment asks you to bring together what you learned throughout the course to offer sociological insight into your chosen condition.
Details are also available here if you would like to share your website with the wider world (though this is not required for this assignment).
You will use your sociological imagination to analyze your issue holistically.
You will use your knowledge about the social problems process as a whole and your particular topic to decide what you think should be done.
Because you have become an expert on the social condition you have been researching all semester, imagine you are asked to give a talk on the issue to a group of legislators. This group knows very little about the condition and is relying on you to tell them what they need to know, where they should turn to get more information, and what they should do next. Prepare the answers you would give them to the following questions:
1. Should we be worried about this condition? If so, how worried?
2. What should we tell the public about the condition? Why?
3. Does the condition require legislative action? Why or why not?
Draw on everything you have learned about the social problems process to provide well-reasoned answers. Refer to your other assignments (include links) and evidence from your annotated bibliography to back up your arguments.
Make a new page of your website titled “Conclusion” or "Legislative Brief" for this assignment.
You may choose to write out your answers to this final assignment, or you may choose an alternative format. For example, you might record a video of yourself as if you were giving the talk to the legislators. Feel free to get creative with the format of the website!
Strong assignments will:
Clearly explain using plain language; and
Include examples, either using earlier assignments or new evidence.
Instructions for peer review for this assignment are located here: