Assessment 2: Self or Other Sociological Analysis - Community Services

This assignment is a case study analyzing the impact of sociological factors on marginalized groups within Australian society, specifically focusing on homelessness. It addresses the ways major institutions impact these individuals, considering stereotyping, social norms, and the role of the media in identifying and labeling this group. The assignment delves into how conditions of inequality, including factors like culture, identity, power, and alienation, affect their social status and role in society. Furthermore, the assignment researches and discusses the health, wellbeing, and associated needs of homeless individuals, providing a comprehensive understanding of the challenges they face and referencing various sociological theories and valid sources to support the analysis.

Assessment Coversheet
Student Name
Competency Title and Code
CRN
CHCDEV002 Analyse impacts of sociological factors on clients in community
work and services.
WELF441
82401, 85079
Assessment Type ☒ Written ☒ Case Study ☐ Project ☐ Presentation ☐ Other
Assessment Name Assessment 2: Self or Other Sociological Analysis
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ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:
In a minimum of 750 words overall, discuss in detail the ways major institutions in Australian (and other)
societies can, or have, impacted on:
Hi: This assignment is for the community services and the subject is analyse impacts of sociological
factors on clients in community work. you have to chose one of the marginalised group within Australia
and then answer the questions. The List is given for the marginalised group to chose but I would expect
you to chose one from the homeless people, the umemployed, people with disabilities, people from
non English background, or the refugees. Whatever the group you chose, there is 5 questions that you
have to answer. The word limit is 750 for the assessment but I would expect it to be around 900
words.
i. A potential CLIENT who is from a marginalised group, a client you have had or
consider a class case study –
someone from a marginalised group might be an Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander,
teenage mothers, offenders, ex-prisoners, those with gambling, drug or alcohol
problems, people from non-english backgrounds, recent immigrants, asylum seekers or
refugees, the homeless, people with disabilities or chronic illness, members of one
parent families, the abused, children in care, the aged, the unemployed, etc.

# REFERENCE TO VALID SOURCES AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORISTS OR THEORIES IS EXPECTED.
You will need to consider, research and discuss with examples each of the following:
a) Stereotyping and labelling
The homeless stand as a vulnerable people in many aspects. Those undergoing homelessness
not merely experience individual and financial adversity they correspondingly face
choosiness and exclusion owing to their status of age. Homelessness lingers to remain a
contentious concern in Australia. Society emphasizes on the person as the foundation of his
or else her identifiable state of destitution, blaming the casualty reasonably than converging
on the more antecedent social as well as monetary forces, for instance, idleness, inadequate
affordable accommodation, and collapses in relations of kinship (Aihw.gov.au, 2019).
Social disgrace transpires insituations wherever there remains unequal communal, economic,
and administrative influence and there stands an occasion to label and stereotype as well as
unconnected (us contrasted with them), lose position, and distinguish. Stigmatization occurs,
when persons feel threatened by a different group. The social order classifies the aged
individuals who are homeless to be no longer suitable or ‘‘functional’’ entities of extreme
readiness, as they do not enthusiastically work as well as support the societal structure
(Morley et al. 2014).
b) What might be social norms expected of, or impacting on this individual / group / community?
There is the mal-dissemination of wealth as well as resources to diverse social groups. This
mal-distribution might lead to disparity in main purviews of lifecycle such as earnings,
wellbeing, housing, nourishment, and occupation. The association to the prospective reasons
of homelessness for the aged persons refers to the concerns of poverty, idleness, low-paying
professions, modifications of communal policy, regulating access to societal safety,
incapacity benefits, cutbacks in welfare provision, nonexistence of inexpensive housing,
powerlessness to access affordable condition of precaution, domestic brutality, reformatory
discharge, mental sickness, and obsession. The Australian Management of the Administrative
and community groups control the effect of crucial strategies that disclose the appropriate

orientation to elevate the financial and collective position of the fatalities facing diverse
procedures of corporeal and emotional illnesses (Aph.gov.au, 2019).
c) The role the media plays in identifying and labelling this group
Media has a significant role in identifying and labeling the aged group of persons suffering
from homelessness. The groundwork indulges head on reviews, online demand for
confirmation of the personages along with social media, communications and accompanying
assessments of the pooled structure, key accoutrements of networking for instance, the
Twitter as well as Facebook plus Linked In, etc.. There are chances of astounding responses
and endorsements of the individuals who focus on acceptable queries concerning the situation
of drawing together and embedding of moral principles for social care (Bismark and Studdert,
2013). The enriched strategies of presentation, societal research, and the harmonization of
resources of broadcasting, restoration of entities in communal expansion supported with
collective reestablishment and improvement of platforms to revitalize the steps of emotional
revolution.
The divergent modes of surveys and perspectives has heightened to uphold the humanizing
protocols of the involvements of predominant norms in addition to rational appropriateness.
There are consequent proceedings for the deliberation of knowledge, communicative skills,
courageousness over and above assertions to drive headlong through the promising essence
plus self-composure in articulating deepest personality (Boonwaat et al. 2016). The people
turn out to be self-reliant to team up unconditionally and understand the dispositions of self-
determining assertiveness to efficaciously set up the verbalized capabilities over powerful
contribution in some discussions and talks to push in the open exercises of interaction.
d) How might people from this group have been impacted by their experience of conditions of
inequality? Consider how factors such as culture, identity, power, and alienation of such individuals /
group / community impact on their social status and on their role in society.
Discussions about the origins of homelessness have dedicated on the distinctive persons
versus the administrative contributory issues. Lau et al. (2014) debates that the ways into
impoverishment are difficult and might be uncertain not as much of individual characteristics
and promote to changeovers, modify the resources for the upliftment of power and cultural
effects, as well as procedures. The structural interpretation centers on the civilization’s
structure for instance, public policies besides employment along with housing situations,
which build environments that are suitable for generating vagrancy. Persons who remain
homeless can be considered as “underclass” (that is, those fitting to the lowermost and

minimum advantaged social and cultural level in civilization). In a power to acquire
resources, individuals who stand as homeless are every so often challenged with a
multifarious set of workers from a diversity of organizations which do not interconnect with
each other (Morley et al. 2014).
The values of Equal prospects and Human rights control to examine the basic display “of
the category of collective ideologies and principally need to proceed with a screening of its
constituents and security”. Inadequate projected methods have been progressed to explicate in
what way above and beyond “human rights” ensure uncharacteristic social desires. The
assumed assessment capitalizes to arrest the cognizance of the individuals and has continued
comprehensively to be documented by plentiful investigators (Bismark and Studdert, 2013).
Anti-Oppression measures consist of the antagonism of authoritarianism, aggressiveness,
abuse, predisposition, refinement, heterosexual dilemmas, and narrow-mindedness,
financial disparities and the like. A person may remain rich or miserable, cultured or
illiterate, male or lady, dynamic or repulsive, dark or silvery in complexion. The different
designs of makeovers amongst the persons reveal the stimulating pursuits in all-inclusive
situation to promote the humanistic determination (Lau et al. 2014).
e) Research discuss the health, wellbeing and associated needs of these individual clients, groups or
communities
People who turn out to be homeless are regularly mentioned through the label, ‘‘homeless,’’
captivating on a less-than-human quality of identification that furthermore has additional
implications that they remain apparent as intimidating (dangerous), nonproductive, and
individually responsible. Furthermore, they are frequently attributed as undesirable features
such as deprived and become independent from persons who are itinerant and inaccessible
with no sagacity of concern, no connections to work, no domestic and communal links. The
derelicts need to be eradicated or controlled; deviant cultural grouping of untouchables;
disease that contaminates; otherwise that of a communal signifier which signifies everything
that is undesirable and chaotic in the social order (Aph.gov.au, 2019).
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References
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Aph.gov.au. (2019). 'Caring for the Elderly' - an Overview of Aged Care Support and
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