In this reflection, you are expected to discuss your own thoughts, feelings, and opinions on a particular social issue and how your thoughts, feelings, and opinions have evolved over the past ten years. This is assuming, of course, that your ideas on that particular issue have evolved in some way, which may or may not be the case, depending on the issue. Clearly, you are best off choosing a social issue that you have changed...
In this reflection, you are expected to discuss your own thoughts, feelings, and opinions on a particular social issue and how your thoughts, feelings, and opinions have evolved over the past ten years. This is assuming, of course, that your ideas on that particular issue have evolved in some way, which may or may not be the case, depending on the issue. Clearly, you are best off choosing a social issue that you have changed your stance on in some way.
You may be wondering what constitutes a social issue for the purpose of this assignment. That is a very large category, so you will have many choices. Anything, really, that affects society is a social issue. One social issue that has been on people's minds is gay rights, gay marriage in particular. If your thoughts on this have changed, that would be a suitable social issue to discuss. Another is female reproductive rights, certainly a social issue. Whether women should have access to abortion and free choices in birth control is a question you may have some thoughts about, perhaps some thoughts that have changed over ten years. Still another issue is immigration, whether or not we should allow amnesty to undocumented immigrants, for example. Your ideas on this might have changed. Poverty is an enormous social problem. Do you think there should be a living wage or that poor people should just work harder and not have any kind of safety net such as food stamps or medical assistance?
The whole idea, I'm sure, is to show some growth in your thinking, a willingness to reconsider a previous position on a social issue, not a knee-jerk reaction that is premised on the opinions of your parents, your peers, or the media. How you have come to change your mind on a social issue is what is being looked for, evidence that you are able to think critically, examine evidence, and consider things for yourself. Look back ten years to where you were. Then discuss how your thinking has changed over those years and why it has changed. Reflections are good for us, a means of making us think about how we think.
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