Factors Influencing Choice of Research Topic

Question 1

What are the social problems?

Answer 1

Governments don’t always take action when sociologists identify a social problem (e.g. poverty increasing, crime, child abuse, domestic violence, and suicide)

Sponsored by governments for their social policies aimed to reduce/solve the social problem.

Aspects of social life that advises misery and anxiety to both private individuals and society in general.

Question 2

What are the sociological problems?

Answer 2

Any aspect of social life either normal or deviant is a sociological problem.

Functions to increase knowledge of how society works.

Encourages participants and social policy makes to adjust or change existing laws and policies.

Some research aims to be descriptive and describes a particular situation of set facts.

Some research explains a particular social phenomenon (e.g. poverty) and involves some description.

The goal is to suggest why poverty occurs and encourages social policy to change rates in poverty for disadvantaged individuals.