Reference no: EM133708475
Assignment:
Evaluating the effectiveness of the federal, provincial, and municipal environmental policies in safeguarding the health of Torontonians: A Comparative Analysis
We would like to focus on evaluating the environmental policies that are implemented by federal, provincial, and municipal governments here in Toronto. This suggests a comparative approach to asses whether these implemented policies are effective enough in promoting the health of the residents of Toronto.
Introduction
Thesis statement: What's the focus of the social/ecological/political or economic problem?
State preliminary factual evidence that this is it a problem? (systematic institutional practices, policies traditions that produce harmful impacts on minoritized groups, ecological systems, exploited countries......)
Briefly state the following
- How are you using the triangle model of social analysis to analyze the problem.
- How did you address differences in perspectives/ideologies among group members?
- Are your conclusions/recommendations unanimous?
Contextualize the problem (Outer Circle of the Triangle)
- What social analysis concepts are you applying to help us understand how power is exercised to create harm conditions and how power is concealed to create doubts about the existence or validity of the problem? (e.g., ideology, institutions, hegemonic discourses, social construction, media consolidation, propaganda, representation, equity, social action, etc.)
- State the social problem's historical origins and the economic, social, and political advantages and disadvantages to various entities or social groups.
- What transformative ideologies see this problem as a social problem? What dominant discourses portray the problem as an individual problem? Has this changed over time?
- What social analysis concepts reveal how hegemony is achieved - how do structures of power legitimize the root causes of the problem. Which hegemonic discourses apply to the problem?
How communities and Individual experience and challenge the problem
- How do various stakeholders experience the problem? Who benefits? Who is exploited? Harmed? Etc.
- How various stakeholders view the problem? Who is bringing attention to the problem and challenging institutions and ideologies responsible for its perpetuation?
- What are individuals doing about the problem and its causes? What solutions are they proposing? Are the various solutions masking, perpetuating or addressing the structural or root causes of the problem?
Which Ideologies perpetuate or challenge the problem?
Identify and contrast how the beliefs, values, and assumptions of various ideological perspectives shape our view the social problem. Which ideology/ies justifies the social problem - does not see it as a problem? Which ideologies critique and challenge the social problem? Do some ideologies misrepresent the facts, omit or distort information? Focus your analysis on how particular perspectives contribute to the problem or challenge the problem. How do causes and solutions to address the social problem differ among the ideologies we have studied?
Perspective 1
Perspective 2
Perspective 3 (relevant transformative (feminist, antiracist, socialist, social democratic, environmentalist, etc...)
Which Systems of Power/Institutions normalize the problem?
- Identify specific institutions and structures implicated in perpetuating the social problem. What is the nature of their involvement - identify specific institutional practices, policies and laws, policies practices and norms that justify or mask the harmful impacts associated with the particular problem?
- How do these institutions use hegemonic practices (techniques of power) to normalize and perpetuate this particular social problem? For example, dominant discourses/ common-sense assumptions, miseducation, media bias, misrepresentation, stereotyping, and propaganda.
- Compare and contrast how various ideological positions justify or criticize institutional policies and practices associated with the issue?