¶ … students have a strong interest in a particular area but have difficulty narrowing down the area into a suitable topic that can actually be researched. For instance, suppose you are interested in how education legislation impacts the lives of American children. How might you narrow this area down into a researchable topic? You could choose one particular piece of legislation (e.g., No Child Left Behind Act) and assess its impact on a specific subpopulation of children (e.g., elementary school children attending Title I schools).
For this Discussion, you identify a particular area of interest and narrow it to 4 -- 5 specific topics. Before you begin, consider the following questions: What course/subject area in your program, and in particular your specialization, resonate with you the most? What subject area might hold your interest for a long period of time? What knowledge do you already have regarding this subject?...
Then briefly describe 4 -- 5 specific and narrow topics under the area you chose that could be researched.
My Response:
A dissertation in sociology truly prepares one to tackle many of the challenges that confront the human race and the issues that confound the human experience. A dissertation which focuses on the human services end of sociology has a wealth of subjects to choose from. Human services in sociology looks at crime, criminal behavior, the citizen and the law, gender and the law, race and the law, criminal investigation, juvenile delinquency, and general human behavior and the social environment. This paper will look at the…
