Essay #1 : Mental health and Social Cohesion

• Epsteins ideas of social cohesion in context connects with Hallwards ideas about social/political change
  • Focus Epsteins claim vs Hallwards claim
    • Similarities/differences
• Social/political change starts with communication
  • List examples
    • Hallward- Silenced stories change help change
    • Epstein- communication vs education of AIDS and its effectiveness
    • Epstein- (Pg.109) Uganadas personal stories/compare to Hallward
    • Hallward- Personal vs peer connections
    • Hallward- Studies to support main claim
• Safe Space Radio and Social Cohesion
  • Podcasts on various topics
    • Mental health, social justice, family, emotion
  • Strong, powerful example of social cohesion because each podcast has a new individual is openly speaking
    • Backs up Hallwards idea of one story—one door— for many people to enter
    • Backs up Epsteins’ idea- communication vs education of issues to create awareness and change