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Assignment:

• A brief discussion of homelessness, and how it rises to the level of social concern.
• A brief discussion of each of the social science disciplines of sociology and economics to gain insight into homelessness. Discuss the main goals of these disciplines.
• Analyze how sociology and economics have examined the homelessness social issue.
• Identify if the authors used qualitative or quantitative methodologies and why they selected these methods.
• Discuss one similarity and at least two key differences in the approaches or conclusions of these studies and relate these to the disciplines involved.
• Explain, based on your research, how using research from two social science disciplines can lead to a more complete understanding of social issues than only using research from a single discipline. In other words, how do the approaches and conclusions of your sources contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of the topic? How is this a more complete understanding than a set of conclusions from sources only in one discipline?
• Finally, explain how this interdisciplinary understanding might be applied within a social context to attempt to address this social issue of homelessness.