A study of the reasons for homelessness among 16 to 18 year old male and females in Northern Ireland.
Research Proposal Title A study of the reasons for homelessness among 16 to 18 year old male and females in Northern Ireland. Introduction There are families and single people of all ages and backgrounds throughout the United Kingdom living in overcrowded, damp and unsafe housing, staying in temporary housing like hostels, bed and breakfast accommodation, night shelters or living under the threat of eviction or repossession. For others the disadvantage is even worse and the reality of home may be a doorway or a cardboard box. They are described as living rough. Perceived reasons why people ultimately find themselves homeless include relationship breakdown, domestic violence, overcrowding, debt, bad budgeting and mental illness. Also involved are the consequences of unemployment and redundancy and young people exiting care facilities without adequate housing provision being arranged or available. Current government policy results in 16-18 year olds not being automatically entitled to social security benefits or where they do receiving benefits these are below adult rates. For young people where family relationships have broken down and living on a small income can often result in being totally unsupported both emotionally and financially. For many young homeless people they have no home to which they can realistically return and their need to stand on their own feet is
A service profile based on two interviews of two people from different health, early years or social settings.
Ara Hasratian Unit 1 Health and Social Care Introduction > I am going to produce a service profile based on two interviews of two people from different health, early years or social settings. > I need to describe and analyse the roles of two workers, and show how care value base support the work care. > Describe the use, effectiveness and purpose of practice codes or any charters if they have one and how it protects the clients. > Compare how the care value base is implementing in both settings which will provide the support for customers. > Describe what type of communication skills are used to understand clients and be understandable for clients. Tell the effectiveness of communication skills. > Evaluate the communication scheme used in the care settings, identifying strength and ways of improving any weakness. To produce my assessment I am going to visit two different people from different sectors. First thing what I need to do is to make an appointment wit those people. First place where I have visited was a Rainbow fostering agency. This is located in South Harrow, Brent. This provides private services and works very close to Social services. Rainbow made an appointment with Joanna. The second place where I have visited was a Watford General Hospital. This hospital belongs to NHS and it is Statutory. Nearly everyone refused to give me an appointment explaining
Juvenile Delinquency
INTRODUCTION As the world is growing and developing, delinquent and criminal behavior among young people also increase at the same pace and it has become more and more complex and confusing. In this coursework, this issue is examined, some basic assumption relating to juvenile delinquency are presented, followed by a description of various factors underlying and causes that are contributing to this phenomenon. Effective approaches and measures for preventing juvenile delinquency and solutions and restorative justice to both perpetrators and victims are suggested. Some regional variations and comparative facts among different countries are highlighted. This coursework ends with a case study and concludes with a summary and recommendations for future actions. Juvenile delinquencies have been increasing recently as evidenced by newspaper reports and raise a lot of concern among the parents, public, government, as well as the law enforcement officers. This issue shall not be neglected as youth and adolescences are the national assets and they are the leaders of our country in the future. In general, juvenile delinquency refers to the antisocial or criminal activity of minors and which violates the law or commits a status offense (Joseph, 1995). The upper legal age for juvenile may be varied depends on different states and countries, or even gender. In Malaysia, the legal
Female Circumcision/Mutilation: a question between Cultural Relativism vs Human Rights.
Gender and Law Question: Female Circumcision/Mutilation: a question between Cultural Relativism vs Human Rights. " When girls my age were looking after the lambs they would talk amoung themselves about their circumcision experiences and look at each other's genitals to see who had the smallesr opening. Everytime the other girls showed their infibulated genitals, I would feel ashamed as I was not yet circumcised. One day I could not stand ot any longer, I took a razor blade and went to an isolated place. I tied my Clitoris with a thred, and while pulling at the thread with one hand I tried to cut part of my clitoris. When I felt the pain and saw the blood coming from the cut I stopped ........i was only seven" Chosing this topic was more of a act of bravery as well as interest. As a society we never really understand the amount of pressure we place upon conformity, acceptance and code of conduct. Even worse, as a child, life should be to a certain limit, carefree and daring, adventurous. The prospects of marriage should be taken in to consideration at a later stage even if it based upon cultural and traditional rules. From as far as history can recall, mankid has invente d and created practices that have "intricately" realted to certyain social orders and to traditional codes of behaviour. One of those practices that has survived through history, is that of Female
Courtship in the Victorian Era.
Anna Wrotecka #1405 Courtship in the Victorian Era. 'All the world loves a lover-but this does not keep the world from watching closely and criticizing severely any breach of good manners... Any public display of affection anywhere at any time is grossly unrefined. Love is sacred, and it should not be thrown open to the rude comments of strangers' 1. The Victorian Era is the period of time in English history between the mid- and the late 19th century, covering the 64-year reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. Though Queen Victoria's reign over England ended in 1901, when she passed away, the era which bore her name continued on for several more years, creating styles, fashions, and symbols of a gilded age, rich with elegance, splendor, and romance. One of the most fascinating phenomenons in the life of people in the 19th century was the complexity of the etiquette and the set of rules that regulated everything from letter writing to the greeting of friends and acquaintances on the street. The process of courting was like many other social rituals very formalized and publically supervised element of Victorian life. Naturally it was the leisured classes who paid most attention to the rules of etiquette. The working class was much more flexible and open-minded in this respect. For the members of the upper and the middle classes Victorian
Why are men from lower socio-economic backgrounds more likely to go to prison ?
Lyn Symes Why are men from lower socio-economic backgrounds more likely to go to prison ? In society people have always been categorised in accordance to their wealth, lifestyle and income and in the past this was by categorising them into classes, the upper, the middle and the working class. Today, people from lower socio-economic groups would have been known as the working class in the past. In order to look at why men from this class/socio-economic group are imprisoned more than other classes/groups we firstly need to look at whom these people are. Britain's original working class came about in the late 18th and early 19th century - the world's first industrial class: Britain was the first industrial nation. In the first half of the 19th century around 80 per cent of the population was living in rural areas but because the industrial revolution came about by the end of the century 80 per cent were now living in towns and cities. The countryside had now become desolated whilst towns and cities continued to expand with their many industries. Mines, docks and factories attracted workers who were wanting to escape from rural poverty into better paid jobs, living standards and more permanent and regular work. At first, many workers found it difficult to convert from 'green' labour to industrial work as this included long hours because of this working class schooling was
Discuss some of the ways in which technologically mediated communication has helped to constitute the distinctive character of modern social life.
Discuss some of the ways in which technologically mediated communication has helped to constitute the distinctive character of modern social life. The media unquestionably contributes to the experience of modern social living. It is an agency which cannot be void from human existence as it plays a significant role in our development and contemporary day to day living. This produces two potential areas for exploration; the media world and the social world and looking at the various ways in which the two worlds meet, overlap and influence each other in the characterizing of modern social life. Media theorists however have the tendency to view the social world from a cause/effect angle, explaining the social world in terms of the influence that the media has upon it. It is perhaps commonplace to find in media studies literature various accounts and descriptions of encoding/decoding strategies founded by Hall (1973), uses and gratifications approaches defined by Blumler and Katz (1974, in Katz, Blumler and Gurevitch, 1974) and the potential influence of media language in communication (Matheson, 2005) which all work to highlight media influence upon society. While to some extent such direction is valid and produces useful theory regarding the media and social living, authors such as Silverstone (1999) call for the direct study of the social world and social theory itself to
How to design a research project
How to design a research project The distinction between qualitative and quantitative research is commonly made. Quantitative research is sometimes referred to as statistical or sometimes (somewhat sloppily) as empirical research. Qualitative research is sometimes referred to as the sociological approach to research. Elsewhere the distinction is often made between certain research methods as either being Qualitative or Quantitative. For example Interviewing, Participant Observation and Documentary Analysis are often referred to as Qualitative research methods. The use of Surveys and Statistical data is referred to as Quantitative. These distinctions do have a fair degree of truth to them. However as we will see later they do not hold true in all cases. What are commonly thought of as used in purely Qualitative research can be part of Quantitative research programmes and vice versa. In this lecture we are going to look at this distinction between qualitative and quantitative research. After looking at brief definitions of each we are going to look at what the goals of social research are. This will allow us to reflect on how both qualitative and quantitative research strategies can be employed to achieve those goals. Definitions "Qualitative Research is a basic strategy of social research that usually involves in-depth examination of a relatively small
Provision of Microcredit in India. Who is the champion for the Poor in India? SHGs or Grameen?
Who is the champion for the Poor in India? SHGs or Grameen? Index Introduction Objective of essay The idea of microcredit Microfinance in India- SHGs v Grameen SBLP Grammen Style Bank Comparison of models . Outreach of Models 2. Staff Productivity 3. Operational Efficiency 4. Cost Per Borrower 5. Portfolio Quality 6. Interest rate 7. Conclusion Challenges Faced by SHGs The Way Forward Introduction Microfinance has been hailed as the panacea to solving rural poverty in the 21st century. Microfinance however had a humble beginning in the 1970s when Professor Mohammed Yunnus lent $27 USD to 42 women in a remote village of Bangladash. Only 30 years later, the Grameen Bank he started has 3.2 million borrowers, 1,178 branches, services in 41,000 villages and assets of more than $3 billion[1]. I first started to take an interest in microfinance when I visited a village in remote Buriram Province of Thailand. The village underwent a major transformation after it joined the Village Development Partnership organized by the Mechai Viravaidya Foundation. The programe was based on a microcredit scheme that lent loans to the villagers to engage in productive activities. It may seem cliché to say instead of handing the poor a fish on a plate, it is more useful to give them a fishing road. However once you walk into one of the villages transformed by microcredit, you
Explain how and why a feminist critique of the family developed and apply this perspective to a specific aspect of family life.
Explain how and why a feminist critique of the family developed and apply this perspective to a specific aspect of family life A Feminist critique of society developed because of the social subordination of women as a race all through history. A Feminist critique of the family developed because the family is seen as the most fundamental institution in society, one that upholds common public morals and ensures the future for society. As women have undeniably been oppressed through history, then it is only logical that one should look at the family as a source of such oppression. However, the very term 'family' does not have a universal definition across all schools of thought, and so I begin this essay with an examination of this concept. I will show how those with power, such as the church and the government, invoke different meanings of 'the family' to social scientists, who themselves can't agree on a single definition. I will then go on to explore the concept of Feminism, looking at the main themes that transcend all forms of Feminism, and will offer a very basic definition as a starting point for the following discussion. To understand the feminist critiques of the family, I feel an understanding of the history of women's subordination within the family is important. Therefore, I will show how women's subordinate position was originally something of a necessity, and how
