This resource provides support and guidance for personal study and to help you through the dissertation process. The site has not been produced with the aim of providing a set of definitive answers. Instead, we recognise there are many ways in which the journey through the process can be completed. The notes included here draw on the experiences of dissertation supervisors, academic research into the student and staff experiences of study and supervision, and examples of good practice. You can make use of this site in various ways and at various stages of the dissertation process.

For example, before you start the dissertation, you can use it to: explore what the demands of a dissertation are. If you have already started the dissertation, you can use it to: clarify issues about specific chapters of the dissertation. The site is structured around 11 core sections and includes a number of case studies and video interviews with academics who talk about the dissertation process the website contains further reading and research papers this website is a resource for the social science academic community. The commissioned sections can be used within the uk for teaching purposes, without the need to seek copyright permission.

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Academic users are welcome to download any parts of the site for teaching use, although hea cannot accept any responsibility for losses result of downloading material. We have provided the selection of example sociology dissertation topics below to help and inspire you. If you need help with the topic and titles for your own dissertation then our writers are avilable to help. Click on the button below for more information about our topics with titles service: the welfare state and its effects on reducing incidence of poverty in modern britain established in its modern guise immediately after wwii though having its origins in the liberal reforms of 1909 1911 the welfare state is a multifaceted beast.

This dissertation looks at policies of inclusion and community cohesion to address the ways in which children have been lifted out of poverty in the last 60 years and additionally asks what still needs to be done. Through so doing, the latter half of the dissertation looks particularly at the initiatives brought in by the blair and brown administrations and how these are faring in an era of budgetary restraint. 1992 lsquo identifying welfare state regimes: the links between politics, instruments and outcomes', governance. elderly britain: an analysis of the effects of an aging population on the welfare state within the next 20 years the retired population of britain will be the largest sectoral grouping within the country. This will have a profound effect on aspects of government policy particularly with regard to social care and health provision.

This dissertation looks not only at the effects of a declining working population for taxation purposes as well as the budgetary implications of ever increasing demands being placed on the nhs. 1993 lsquo changes and challenges facing the uk welfare state in the europe of the 1990s', policy amp politics. 2003 lsquo pressures on state welfare in post industrial societies: is more or less better?' social policy amp administration. 1990 lsquo the economic burden of ageing and the prospect of intergenerational conflict', ageing and society. newcastle: an analysis of post industrial society and resulting social exclusion the decline of the ship building industry and the wider regional effects of the decline in coalmining have resulted in the north east becoming a long term unemployment hotspot within the uk. Despite numerous government initiatives there has been little diminishment of the economic gulf between rich and poor within the region.

In areas such as byker and the east end, issues of social exclusion remain effectively unchecked. This dissertation analyses the results of the various initiatives introduced into the area from 1970 onwards and proffers a number of recommendations as to how enhance provision of social services within the area during the comment time. 2001 lsquo childhood risks and protective factors in social exclusion', children amp society. 2005 lsquo social exclusion, mobility and access', the sociological review. lsquo for adult users only' a critique of pornography from a feminist empowerment viewpoint within the broader feminist movement there is a body of opinion that sees pornography not as a tool of oppression and a means by which degrade women, but as a tool of female empowerment and education. Charting the history of the feminist pro pornography sexual movement from the 1970s onwards this dissertation looks at issues of zoning within the usa, free speech, and representation with the pornography industry. The issue of the extent to which pornography may also be seen to be akin to lsquo hate speech' is also addressed.

1993 lsquo a feminist critique of ldquo the rdquo feminist critique of pornography', virginia law review. 2008 lsquo a comparison of male and female directors in popular pornography: what happens when women are at the helm?', psychology of women quarterly. community and identity: an appraisal of suburban neurosis the suburbanisation of cities from the mid 1930s onwards led, according to contemporary academics, commentators and medical professionals, to a developing social neurosis in which housewives, deprived of familiar surroundings and facilities, became imprisoned within their newly painted lsquo pastel shaded' semi detached houses. Using an array of sociological, historical and literary references this dissertation seeks to address these interlinked issues through a critique of two housing developments of the period. perceptions of place and study: a critique of the works of massey the region of the self is, according to massey, dependent upon not only one's own perception of place but also of those around us. This in turn can be shaped, moulded and altered by factors as diverse as social relationships, working patterns, government initiatives and socio economic changes.