Exploring Youth Suicide Through the Lens of Durkheim's Theory A Critical Analysis and Policy Implications

Assessment: PART B - Group Presentation to Critically Theorize a Contemporary Social or Practice Issue

This assessment task will require you to work with members of your tutorial cohort in order to contribute to your group's capacity to demonstrate the application of one or two theorists/theories to a social work practice issue or contemporary social issue requiring a policy response. This piece of assessment is designed to scaffold your learning for the essay assessment by providing a foundation for critical analysis, the use of theory, and the creative development of practice or policy responses to a social issue. 

Topic: Youth Suicide

Chosen theory: Durkheim Theory

Within your theory groups you will be guided by the following questions:

• What is your social issue and how is it predominantly perceived in the media?
• What is an appropriate theory for critically analysing this issue?
• What are the theory/ theorist’s main tenets? What are its/ their main values, assumptions?
• What does the theory prioritize (e.g. class inequality, power inequality, oppression of a particular identity, gender asymmetries, exclusion, failure of cohesion)?
• How does the theory inform the way we would explain the social issue you have selected in a more critical manner than we might otherwise see it? Another way of putting this is -- what is your argument concerning the issue in light of the theory?*
• What are the gaps/limitations in using this theory?
• What sort of practice or policy ideas does the use of this theory suggest?

* There should be a guiding thread or 'thesis' stated clearly near the beginning, saying what the theory helps explain about the issue.

You will need to supply at least 8 scholarly references.

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