This is an offer for a replacement assessment in the unit SOC10236
Applied ethics and sustainability due to your overall mark being less
than 50%. The mark for this assignment will replace the lower of your
assignment 2 or assignment 3 marks to determine your final grade.
SOC10236 Replacement Assignment
Due: 9 July 2017 11.00 PM
Length: 1500 words maximum
You must follow these submission instructions precisely.
1. Do NOT attach an SCU assignment cover sheet.
2. All text that you copy (or quote) from other sources must be formatted like this –
“…quoted text here” (author, year, page number).
NOTE – you must use double quotation marks and provide an in-text
reference in the prescribed format (ie author, year, page number).
3. Do NOT rewrite the questions in your assignment. Answer each
question under a sub heading consisting of only the question letter a, b
c etc. No other introductions or summaries are required.
4. Correctly reference your assignment with appropriate in-text
references and provide a list of references at the end of your
assignment.
5. An assignment which has a Turnitin Originality Report which shows a text match of more than 10% will not be accepted.
6. A required objective of this unit is that you learn how to use
Turnitin to improve your referencing and academic writing to the
required academic standard. Your assignment will not be accepted unless
you have reduced the text match to 10% or less by the due date. Note
that the first Turnitin Originality Report is generated in 5 minutes,
however subsequent reports take 24 hours to produce.
7. It is your responsibility to review the Turnitin Originality
Report and remove text matches so that your assignment conforms to the
required academic writing standard by the due date. You remove text
matches by strictly following the instructions above; and where
required, paraphrasing and/or restating text matches in your own
original words.
8. Do NOT recycle an assignment used previously in this or any other unit.
You are required to select one of the three general topics listed
below and clearly define one focused and specific ethical question (ie
as you did in assignments 1 and 2 in this unit).
The three general topics are stated following.
1. The responsibility of individual consumers with regards their
consumption behaviour given the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
2. The global production of food: security, quality and equity.
3. The obligation of economically developed nations to alleviate extreme poverty in foreign countries.
Required tasks:
a. Clearly define one ethical problem drawn from one of the three
general topics provided above and provide a brief explanation as to why
your chosen ethical problem is important. (10 marks)
b. Identify academic, peer-reviewed, researched and referenced facts
and key assumptions which are relevant to your analysis of the ethical
problem. Fully reference each fact. (30 marks)
c. Analyse the ethical problem using act utilitarianism, identifying
all relevant consequences. Compare negative versus positive
consequences and assess whether net utility will rise or fall as a
result of the ethical act being examined. Provide a clear ethical
discussion and conclusion. (30 marks)
d. Discuss the relevance of the general topic (ie one of the three
general topics identified above) which you chose (do not focus on your
specific ethical problem) to the objective of sustainability, clearly
identifying relevant environmental, social, cultural and economic
dimensions. (30 marks)
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