Ideas for sociololgy hypothesis?

Question

i need to come up with a hypothesis for sociology and it has to do with education or mass media and i would be grateful for any suggestions that would be easy to carry out research on and is interesting

thanks x

Answer 1

Would putting boarder line students in an advanced class motivate them to achieve greater skills?

I am not sure what you are looking for or how you would carry out the research. If you have a clearer direction or more focused area you are wanting to work with, update details, I would be happy to help.

Additional Info:

How about how women are influenced by media to dress a certain way or weigh  only so much?

There are tons of data on both on the Internet.

Another influence that I hear from the 18 to 21 year olds I work with is about their sexuality and how they feel like they are supposed to be sexually active, even if they do not want to. Shows mostly influence this feeling. You could conduct any of the research by asking friends and family, posting survey questions here, making an online survey for people to respond to or a paper format and distributing it to groups anywhere.

Answer 2

How about subconscious manipulation of media and the affects it has on our politcal economical and social structure. Focus on how the media delivers news and isnt even really aware of what they are reporting or how it ties to everything else. You will see that even the media is being manipulated into manipulating the public without even being aware they they are handing out misinformation and contributing to a structure that involves deception by coporations and bureaucracies and involves long term economic and poilitical plans aimed at profit maximization and control of the population by mechanisms put in place to allow for total control over people in every way you can imagine. You can make it very detailed or you can make it very broad, this can be an extremely long essay or you can break it down and give a general overview of how everything ties together. Although Im not sure even with weeks of research you would be able to fully understand what Im telling you. Good luck if you choose to do it on this, otherwise good luck with whatever you do.

Answer 3

(it is difficult to come up with topics that you can do primary research on...but these are some ideas that might have some scholarly journal articles..or they can get you started in that direction)

Ads for jewelry play on men's guilt

Computer mediated relationships compensate for insecurity

Women's magazines offer only subjective articles to help sell their sponser's products.

Televised sports and reality TV are major influences on lower political participation

Crime reporting normalizes/perpetuates crime

Burt and Ernie are g*y!