I'm a student of PhD sociology and have suggestions for selecting my research topic for thesis.
A Ph.D. research topic must come out from an ongoing relationship with your course and a scientific supervisor. What course in sociology are you doing?
Dear Muhammad Ayaz,
Please specify the area of sociology that interests you. Please define the field of sociology that interests you and then I will propose examples of interesting, current research topics.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
A Ph.D. research topic must come out from an ongoing relationship with your course and a scientific supervisor. What course in sociology are you doing?
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I would say something you already know a little bit but, most important, something that can have a direct application, which is considered by a consistent scientific debate and can have a future perspective.
My field of interests are social change
Social stratification
Culture
And I'm interested in quantitative approach
Well, have a look at my current CfP on cultural values and structural characteristics in reconciliation of work and private life just to get an idea what is going on currently within your topic of interests. I hope it helps a bit.Conference Paper Call for Papers 'Work-Life Balance in crisis times and beyon...
But what do YOU want to do; staying the course for even Bachelor's and Master's degrees requires that you research in a topic area which has sufficient interest for you to complete (as you must have found out by experience if you are now thinking of PhD work); while the period of PhD work is even longer.
Thus, I think that you will have to at least inform us of your research interests before contributors to this forum might be of help.
@Philip Adams
My interests are in culture
Stratification
And socialization
But do you think that you have found a research gap in these areas?
Is there a question to be answered because it has not been answered so far, according to even a brief literature review? Would an answer have significant consequences for the field?
This is the 'stuff' of Ph.D. work.
So, as others have pointed out, you need to narrow down this yourself. If we have strong topics/questions, then we'll be researching them ourselves!
However, there are some practical issues which we can point out, and that might help you narrow down your own topic.
First, are you funded, or are you paying for this yourself? If you are self-funded PhD, why are you doing a phd? There are too many people with PhDs. {This might have prompted you to feel 'no, but I really want to X...-grab this. It indicates your motivation which will help narrow your topic). If you are funded by a grant or organisation, what are their aims, what will they value?
Second, what are the 'hot' topics in your country? society? social group? Sociologists often want to improve the world -how can you (as the person you are, located where you are) do this? Sometimes this means we work with community groups to answer their research needs. Read journals (even if you only get the abstracts -what has been published in the last few years, what is missing)
Third, are you a quantitative or a quantitative sociologist? Yes the lines are blurred, but where you sit will impact on the type of topic you feel comfortable comferable with, and the methodology you use.
Finally, who will supervise you? This is the main one. There needs to be a good fit. So, what are they studying, where do they see the field going? Don't expect them to give you research questions -that's part of the 'work' academics do...it isn't given freely! But they will nudge you.
Hope these practical issues help narrow down to an area of sociology -I haven't counted, but sociology has around 50 odd different areas, from medical sociology to ...well anything involving things with agency (there's even sociology of non-human animals).
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23rd Nov, 2020
Peter Yao Lartey
Jiangsu University
I suggest you state the proposed title of your PhD research before seeking expert advice . This way you provide everyone with a clear idea about your choice of domain . At the end of the day the comments will help you modify the title in different forms and narrow the objective.
Finally , the suggestions you will recieve may contribute to identifying the uniqueness of the research area.
Good Luck ! Mohammed
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23rd Nov, 2020
Mary-Helen Castanuela
he is asking for topics for his research----he has no project thus no titles-
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24th Nov, 2020
Philip Adams
University of the West of Scotland
I recommended Peter's suggestion of starting with a title because there is no 'correct' way of starting a project; therefore, starting with a title, if one has this in mind---and which will inevitably be narrowed down to a researchable topic, in light of further thought and suggestions, is as good a way as any to start.
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24th Nov, 2020
Mary-Helen Castanuela
i guess there are different ways of thinking, but i ant imagine coming up with a title (for any work--book, painting, song etc.) prior to having a subject???
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24th Nov, 2020
Philip Adams
University of the West of Scotland
I can.
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