Worksheet

SOC 320 Worksheet Two Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: Complete the worksheet to address the following:

Outline your social advocacy group’s position on your issue.

Identify the audience for your position paper.

Characterize the audience’s current mindset on the issue.

Instructions:

Write a one- or two-paragraph statement that communicates your social advocacy group’s position on the issue and contains the following elements:

The goal or mission of your social advocacy group

The relationship between that goal or mission and your selected issue

Your stated position on the issue

You may find the following examples helpful as you draft your own position statement:

Issue: Violence against women

Social Advocacy Group: American Nurses Association:

Position statement: “Among the goals of the American Nurses Association (ANA) is to support the education of nurses, healthcare providers and women in skills necessary for prevention of violence against women; assessment of women in healthcare institutions and community settings; and research on violence against women. ANA believes there is a critical need for attention to and increased awareness of the problems of violence against women by all healthcare providers in order to reduce immediate and long term physical and psychological injuries that are associated with this crime.”

Reference

American Nurses Association. (2000, March 24). Violence Against Women: ANA Position Statement. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/advocacy/state/workplace-violence2/

Issue: Private and public insurers often do not offer, or may specifically exclude, coverage for medically necessary treatments for gender transition.

Social Advocacy group: The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists

Position statement: The APA’s vision statement includes the phrase: “Its vision is a society that has available, accessible quality psychiatric diagnosis and treatment,” yet currently, transgender and gender variant individuals frequently lack available and accessible treatment. [Therefore, the American Psychiatric Association:

Recognizes that appropriately evaluated transgender and gender variant individuals can benefit greatly from medical and surgical gender transition treatments.

Advocates for removal of barriers to care and supports both public and private health insurance coverage for gender transition treatment.

Opposes categorical exclusions of coverage for such medically necessary treatment when prescribed by a physician.

Reference

The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists. Position Statements of the American Psychiatric Association and AGLP: Access to Care for Transgender and Gender Variant Individuals. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20190402191212/http://www.aglp.org/pages/LGBTPositionStatements.php

Your position statement:

Identify who, specifically, you need to convince to accept your social advocacy group’s position (i.e. legislators, community members, schoolboards). In other words, who is the audience for your position paper?

For example, the audience for the American Nurses Association position on violence against women is healthcare providers and the audience for the APA, while the audience for the Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists is healthcare providers and the federal government.

Your audience includes:

What may this audience’s current mindset on this issue be and what has influenced this mindset? Answer the questions below:

What are some of the current stereotypes this audience may be operating within?

What are some of the common myths, such as displayed in the media?

What are some recent historical events that have impacted perceptions about this issue?

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Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.

Critical Elements	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (75%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Position Statement	Develops a statement that communicates the position of the social advocacy group	Develops a statement that communicates the position of the social advocacy group, but lacks detail or is misaligned	Does not develop a statement that communicates the position of the social advocacy group	50
Audience	Identifies numerous potential audiences that are well-related to the issue and the position statement	Identifies some potential audiences that are related to the issue and the position statement, but overlooks crucial audiences or includes irrelevant audiences	Does not identify potential audiences	10
Stereotypes	Includes prevalent stereotypes regarding the issue	Includes some stereotypes regarding the issue, but overlooks some prevalent and widely recognized stereotypes	Does not include prevalent stereotypes regarding the issue	20
Influencers of Mindset (Myths Perpetuated in the Media, Recent Historical Events)	Demonstrates analytical insights in identifying media portrayal, and historic events that have shaped perceptions related to this issue	Describes some ways the media and historic events have shaped perceptions related to this issue that contains some minor inaccuracies and/or is missing influencers widely recognized as significant	Does not describe ways that the media and/or historic events have shaped perceptions and descriptions contain gross inaccuracies	20
Total	100%