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Research Topic Ideas
Need help in picking a research topic on social issues? Here are a few ideas...
Abstinence
Affirmative action
Age discrimination
AIDS
Alternative fuel sources
Animal rights
Anorexia
Artificial insemination
Battered wife syndrome
Bilingual education
Biotech foods
Bioterrorism
Birth control choices
Bulimia
Caffeine addiction
Capital punishment
Cell phone safety
Censorship
Child abuse
Child labor/Sweatshops
Child pornography laws
Cloning
Community notification laws
Computer crimes
Cults
DNA research
Date rape
Defense budget
Deforestation
Diabetes epidemic
Distance education
Domestic violence
Drug testing
Drugs & pregnancy
Electronic commerce
Electronic monitoring
Electoral college system
Endangered species
Energy crisis
Environmental issues
Equal Rights Amendment
Euthanasia
Female circumcision
Food safety
Foreign aid
Foreign policy

Freedom of Information Act
Freedom of the Press
Frozen embryos
Gambling
Gangs
Gay/Lesbian marriage
Gay/Lesbian parenting
Gender equity
Genetic engineering
Glass ceiling
Global warming
Globalization
Gun control
Hate crimes
Hazardous wastes
Health care reform
H.M.O.s
Illegal aliens
Illiteracy
Immigration reform
Infanticide
Independent counsels
Internet addiction
Internet pornography
Internet privacy
Interracial adoption
Islamic fundamentalism
Juvenile homicide
Juvenile sentencing
Mad cow disease
Mandatory sentencing
Media violence
Medical marijuana
Militant groups
Minimum wage
Multiculturalism
National security
Nuclear waste
Oil shortages
Organ transplants
Overpopulation
Parental responsibility
Parole of convicts
Patient's rights
Patriot Act
Police brutality

Privacy laws
Presidents and moral conduct
Proposition 187 (Immigration)
Proposition 209 (Affirmative Action)
Proposition 227 (Bilingual Education)
Public television
Racial profiling
Rain forests
Rap music
Reality television
Refugee crisis
Retinal scanning
School uniforms
School violence
School vouchers
Second-hand smoke
Sex offenders
Sexual conversion
Sexual harassment
Sexual predator laws
Social Security budget
Stem cell research
Teacher shortage
Teenage pregnancy
Teenage suicide
Televised executions
Television violence
Television in court
Terrorism
"Three Strikes" law
Tobacco advertising
Tobacco industry
Urban sprawl
Utility deregulation
Video games and children
Violence in movies
Violence in sports
Virtual reality
Voluntary childlessness
Water quality
Welfare reform
Women in combat
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