Selected Thesis Titles for Sociology Majors

• Women’s Perspectives on Formal and Non-Formal Education in the Peruvian Amazon
• Struggle for Survival: Latina Single Mothers and Low-Paying Jobs
• A Comparative Analysis of Test Outcomes for Black Immigrant and Black Nonimmigrant Students
• Structure and Agency in the Health Care Strategies of Uninsured Working Adults
• Race and Conflict in Citizen-Police Relationships
• Territory, Voice and Choice: A Case Study of the Lobstering and Wind Power Industries
• Race, Intersectionality, and Queer Student Organizations: Assessing the Utilization of Queer Politics
• The Politics of Contradiction: Reforming U.S. Immigration Policy in a Globalized World
• Consumed With Nonconsumption: A Case Study Analysis of the Formation and Rise of Anti-Consumerism and Social Activism in the United States
• “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”: An Examination of Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity and Class in Harlequin Romance Novels and How Readers Respond to These Images
• Red Blooded Americans on Motorcycles: Exploring the Injustice, Identity, and Agency of the Contemporary Anti-Immigration Movement through the Voices of the Twenty-First Century Paul Revere Riders
• Revaluing Motherhood: How Parents as Scholars Participants Feel About Education, Work And Family
• Voices Unheard: A Qualitative Analysis of the Reproduction of Gendered Power in Protective Order Proceedings in Two Maine Courts
• Promoting Europe: An Investigation of European Union Democracy Promotion in Turkey, Slovakia, Afghanistan, and Iraq
• Subjective Interpretations of the Relevancy Rule: Are the Questions Asked of Rape Victims Putting Them on Trial?
• The Implications of Internet Use on Levels of Civic Engagement and Social Capital
• The Positive Effect of Sensitive Doctors on the Health Status and Behaviors of Underserved Patients
• Race, Religion and Reception: Exploring Segmented Assimilation and the Somali “1.5” Generation
• Terror in the Times: Newspaper Coverage of Al-Qaeda Attacks
• Political Apathy and the Mobilization of Young Voters: A Case Study of Rock the Vote’s Use of Strategic Framing to Incite Political Participation
• A Critical Historical Analysis of Case Law and Commentary in Forensic DNA Admissibility
• Ideas, Institutions, and Interaction: The Evolution of a European Defense Identity Does The Name Matter Or Are All White Jackets The Same?: A Comparative Analysis Of The Humanitarian Attitudes And Behaviors Of Osteopathic And Allopathic Physicians
• “Jobs…Yes, but with Dignity!”- Alternative Organizing for and by Women: A Case Study of “María Elena Cuadra”
• The Role of NGOs in the Emergence of Transnational Social Movements
• Pathways Home: Aftercare for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
• Newspaper Representations of U.S. Student Anti-Sweatshop Protests, 1995-2000”
• Privacy and Safety in Conflict: A Case Study of HIV-Testing and Segregation Of Infected Inmates in the United States Prison System
• The Presentation of Self in Online Computer Gaming
• Marxism and the Political Economy of Space-Making: An Analysis of Lewiston, Maine
• Unvieling ‘A Wedding Story’: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality
• The Roles of Religious Institutions in the Rise of Fascism: Germany and Italy in the Inter-War Period
• The Gregarious Elderly: A Qualitative Investigation of Social Interaction in Nursing Homes
• School Violence, Responsive Reforms, and the Effects on Children
• ‘Outsiders-Within?’: Gender, Race, and Class in Nanny Employment
• Illegal Immigration from Mexico to California: The Social Construction of a Problem
• The Use of the Criminal Personality Profile as an Investigative Aid for Law Enforcement
• The Life of the Death Penalty: An Analysis of its Foundations in Belief and Practice