Examples of Questions
Examples of questions
• How do sociologists explain body modification?
· The second shift. Is our division of labor in the home ‘gendered’?
· Does parenting differ along social class lines?
· Do people marry across social class lines?
· Explore the sociology of food trucks.
· Was social distancing during the pandemic a privilege?
· Is society lonelier?
· Explore the concepts of social stigma and deviance and provide an example (e.g., hair pulling).
· Explore the concept of culture lag or cultural relativism as it relates to sociology.
· When sexuality is treated as a social construction, why would sociologists argue against the notion of normal?
· Social media (cyberbullying, social groups, social networks)
· Sexism/violence/body image in video games and gaming
· Dating, hooking up, and gender roles
· Diversity of family: polygamy/monogamy/polyamory
· Pressures in high school/hazing/college campus Greek life
· Do we have a housing crisis?
· Explore Gentrification in relation to a local neighborhood
• Discuss beauty pageants from a sociological perspective.
•• Examine the portrayal of black men in music videos,
• Explore the portrayal of women in magazines.
• Is Facebook the new language of friendship?
• Do children of divorced parents fare worse than children of parents who stay
together?
• Should we have capital punishment?
• Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research methods and give
an example of each.
• Reflect of the different sociological definitions of culture. Which one makes
most sense to you and why.?
• Define socialization and gives two examples of agents of socialization.
• When sexuality is treated as a social construction, why would sociologists
argue against the notion of normal?
Topics could include, but are not limited to:
• social media (cyberbullying, online social groups, how we are losing the
ability to interact face-to-face)
• sexism/violence in video games/body image
• dating and gender roles
• the impact of television culture on children
• gender roles and TV shows
• gender roles and infancy
• capital/corporal punishment
• pressure on men to 'look good'/ stay-at-home fathers
• pressures in high school/hazing
• same-sex marriage/sexuality (nature vs nurture debate)
LOOK BELOW YOUR SEARCH RESULTS AND JOT DOWN ANY OFFICIAL SUBJECT HEADINGS YOU MAY WANT TO USE FOR FUTURE SEARCHING. Based on the topics stated for this assignment, here is a SAMPLE of subject headings you may want to use for your searching.
BODY MARKING
TATOOING
BODY ART
PARENTING
SOCIAL CLASSES
MARRIAGE
FOOD TRUCKS
SOCIAL DISTANCING
ALIENATION
SOCIAL STIGMA
CULTURAL LAG
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
CULTURAL VALUES
SOCIAL MEDIA
CYBERBULLYING
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION (instead of "face to face")
DATING (SOCIAL CUSTOMS)
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
POLYGAMY
MONAGAMY
POLYAMORY
GREEK LETTER SOCIEITES
FRATERNITIES
SORORITIES
GENDER ROLE
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
MEN AND BODY IMAGE
STAY-AT-HOME FATHERS
PEER PRESSURE AND HIGH SCHOOL
HAZING
GENTRIFICATION
SAME SEX MARRIAGE
HUMAN SEXUALITY
NATURE & NURTURE
SOCIALIZATION AGENTS
HOUSING
BEAUTY CONTESTS
CHILDREN OF DIVORCED PARENTS
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
CULTURE
DEFINITIONS
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
nature vs. Nurture can still work
SEXISM AND VIDEO GAMES
BODY IMAGE AND BEAUTY CONTESTS
HOUSING and CRISIS