Social Welfare Issues Annotated Bibliography
For this assignment, you will. . .
Assignment instructions are included below for your reference.
Learning Objectives:
Students will exhibit the ability to locate and record citations of resources that are relevant to a specific topic/policy.
Students exhibit the ability to apply critical intellectual skills including: concise exposition, succinct analysis, and informed library research.
Students employ interview techniques to gather data.
Students will critically analyze collected and articulate the significance of social welfare policy and history as experienced by citizens of the United States through enacted legislation.
Descriiption: An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief descriiptive, critical, and evaluative paragraph and the annotation, which provides your view of the relevance and importance of the source to the policy. Students will write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book, article, or documentary. You will need a minimum of 10 resources, with a minimum of 3 scholarly articles from recognized research journals, and no more than 2 documentaries or films related to the topic approved by the instructor. It would be wise to have at least the relevant, state or federal laws and budgets; state or national statistics; or government documents as this bibliography will be used for students final assignment.
Include one or more sentences per area below:
The authority or background of the author,
Intended audience and level of reading difficulty
Purpose
Bias or standpoint of the author
Theoretical Framework/political stance/ School of thought
Findings, results, arguments, and conclusions
Compare or contrast this work with another you have cited
Explain how this work illuminates or is relevant to your policy and how it will be useful for your debate.
Example:
Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., & Witsberger, C. (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51 (4), 541-554.
The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.
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