Sample Topics for the
Sociology 101 Paper

The social causes of poverty
Crime as a social fact
Prisons as social colleges
The failure of education in society
America: The shared culture model
Motherhood as a social tool
The macro/micro debate in sociology
Cyber society
Family structure in America
The social history of Halloween
Sociological theories of rape
The purpose of war
Terrorists: A sociological profile
The social purpose of private ownership of firearms
America's informal caste system
Ethnic exclusion in France
The feminization of war
Anomie and school failure
Materialism as an engine of crime
Sociological theories of suicide
The social function of drugs in western culture
Karl Marx's sociology
Nazi social theory
Religiosity and economic class in America
Crime and education
Serial killers as a product of population density
Ethics and sociological research
The abstractness of sociology
Drugs as tools of social war
Positivistic effects of social structure
Crime and minorities in America
 
The purpose of poverty in America
Family as a tool of cultural transmission 
Criminal technology
Rehabilitation or retribution: the purpose of prison
Logical positivism assumptions in sociology
Religiosity and educational attainment in America
Class conflict in America
Terrorism as social status
Counter cultures in American history
Gangs are family: The social function of street gangs
Social theories of domestic abuse in America
The social construction of childhood
Social profiling in criminal justice
Applying causal models in sociological research
Ethnicity and crime: Shifts in the color of crime
The Marxist argument against centralized government
News: Information source or propaganda machine?
Labeling theory and criminal incarceration
The criminal justice system as a model for warfare 
Divorce in modern society: patterns and theory
Economic functions of immigration
Police in schools
Minimum wage versus a living wage
The social function of racism in America
Social class and life course
The liquid wealth lie: American misperceptions of power
Women in the workplace
British socialism
The un-American crime: crime as social expression
Patterns in the flux of social reality
Communicating American ideal culture in cowboy movies
The myth of race
Diploma or education: the function of school in society
Terrorism through ethnocentrism
The pragmatic perspective of sociological theory
Handguns and crime in America
Working women and inflation 
The Protestant work ethic in modern America
Violence: nonmaterial culture in America
The purpose of fatherhood
Creating social stability through religion 
The social function of prisons
Contrasting sociopaths and psychopaths 
Gender versus sex
The Vienna Circle and the development of sociology
Political participation and educational attainment
The political function of crime
The social construction of sexual orientation
Contrasting republics and democracies
Juvenile delinquency as a social construction
The role of deviance in society
Social control as rape
Environmental pollution and state's rights
Contrasting European and American gender roles
The social relativity of poverty
Comte's role for sociologists
Consumption as a tool of class manipulation 
The social meaning of abortion
Variable scale in sociological studies
Shifting role socialization in American social institutions
Ethnic flux in America
Metro Males: Masculinity in new America
Note: You are not limited to these topics! You can select any social phenomena you wish, the key is to approach the subject from a sociological perspective and using reference materials appropriate for sociological research.