Social Issues Thesis Statements Samples For Students

Introduction

In the contemporary world, divorce is among the growing social problems, especially in the western countries. The divorce rate in the countries such as Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Sweden, and Canada among other developed countries is alarming. For instance, the 1,083 divorces were recorded in Luxembourg in 2009, which was an increase from 1,052 from 2009 (Eurostat 2010, p.35). Sociologists consider the deteriorating rate of divorce as a social problem that can be solved by preventing unwise marriage rather than keeping people together in the happy marriages. While some sociologist suggests that ...

In comparison with other western developed or industrialized countries, the United States of America has been established by various researchers and scholars to be the leading in teen pregnancy. Despite the fact that the teen pregnancies have been declining over years, various reports according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that the U.S. still has a higher rate of teen pregnancies than any other developed country (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). This statistics emphasizes on the need of taking teen pregnancy as a matter of great ...

Introduction

Terrorism is defined as the use of illegal force against either a person or property for the purpose of intimidating them or a government, civilians or any division of a population for either political or social objectives. Terrorism usually incites war either within a nation or between nations. Nations have designated strategies to counter terrorist activities. There is a war on terrorism. (Cook, 2004)

Discussion

Strategies
The United States has come up with its counter-terrorist strategy called “War on Terrorism”. Its plans have been termed as warfare instead of being law enforcement. The War on Terrorism is a real war ...

Of the five major party Presidential candidates that remain in the 2016 race, the one who I am supporting is Ted Cruz. This is primarily due to the fact that I agree with him on a higher percentage of issues than I do with all of the other candidates. I estimate that I agree with Ted Cruz on approximately 85 percent of issues. Since there are so many contemporary political issues, I will limit my scope in this paper to just two of them.
The first issue that I will discuss which underscores my support for Ted Cruz´s ...

Thesis Statement

Poverty, drugs and the lack of opportunities in the neighborhood made it difficult for Sampson Davis and his friends to visualize going to college. Davis, one of the three main characters in the book The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream grows up in a culture of crime and drugs where young people’s route out of poverty is to take part in crime rings. Davis was growing up in a place that did not encourage college education. Young people did not think there was hope so they just followed what the older boys ...

Introduction

The paper is a case study that focuses on subculture theories. As such, the paper will take an application approach where the theory is explored in the context of Pachuco subculture. The subculture relates to Mexican-American gang which developed in the 1930s (Sanchez, n.d.). The subculture was characterized by delinquent behavior thus forming a suitable case to apply the subculture theories.

Understanding the Emergence of Pachuco Subculture

Bourdieu argues that there are four forms of capital namely social, economic, and cultural and symbolic. To understand the emergence of the subculture, first, the social form of capital is applied. According to Bourdieu, social capital refers to ...

Marriage vs. Military Service Member

Military service is typical in the current world, where crimes and terror attacks have increased. Some of the servicemen may be involved in battles for long durations, leaving their families worried about their safety in the war. Married people who go out to war leaving their partners and kids at home are not settled because they are always thinking about the welfare of the family. When family members are left at home, they do not know if their members will be back from the battle in a healthy condition, and this causes panic among the kids and partners. Balancing ...

Thesis: With regard to the educational institutions, the government should bring a law in the state so as to ensure gender equality by making room for disciplinary action against any person(s) who would be responsible for inflicting discriminatory behavior on an individual based on his or her gender identity, and there have to be autonomous committees that would be empowered with the responsibility of taking disciplinary steps against the people responsible for the unsolicited discrimination.

Introduction and Thesis Statement

Body Paragraphs
No committees exist in the present times to address issues of gender discrimination in the educational institutions.
Gender discrimination is one ...

The case for food consumption is becoming complex. For most of modern history, food consumers have relied on industrially produced food. The main rational for mass producing food industrially has been to feed growing numbers of world's population. The recurring of food poisoning and media reports of harmful effects of pesticides and genetically modified food (GMF) coupled by emergence of environment conservation movements has spurred interest in what is now commonly referred to as organic food. Indeed, recent years have witnessed increasing conversion to organic food for different reasons. Moreover, influences external to consumer's decision-making process are being exercised ...

Racial identity and the acceptance of different racial culture is important to the understanding of the way person accept and understand each other. For many authors the racial identity of their characters is important to the development of the plot and to the understanding of the characters and their contribution to the plot. Toni Morrison deviates from the conventions of presenting the racial identity of Roberta and Twyla and this adds to the ambiguous nature of the story. Twyla and Roberta are presented throughout the story as different person who had to learn to deal with each other despite ...

Human trafficking is the act of conducting illegal human beings exploitation and trade for forced labor, reproduction favors or prostitution. In today's world, human trafficking is equivalent to slavery. The international community must do what it can to recognize it as such if at all this crime is to be fully eradicated (Kempadoo, 94-95).

Research questions

How does a free society compare to a repressive society for the purpose of forced labor on human trafficking?
What societal factors contribute to the human trafficking today? How do they lead to human trafficking and how can they be prevented? (Davidson, 244).

What are the evils which are associated with human trafficking?

How is ...

This worksheet will help you prepare for your final project by organizing the information that you’ll need for your final paper and walking you through the process of defining your topic, researching and analyzing primary and secondary sources, crafting a thesis, and creating an annotated bibliography. Once you have completed the worksheet submit it to the online classroom for grading.
After your instructor has graded the worksheet, please be sure to use it and the feedback provided to you by your instructor as you construct your final project.1. Statement of Topic:

African Americans This is the topic
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Thesis and Outline: Industrialization after the Civil War

Thesis Statement
An analysis of the period that followed the American Civil War reveals changes in the economic, political, and social spheres as the country shifted from an agrarian society to an industrial one.

Essay Outline

Factories emerged as the people shifted to an industrialized society. Before the American Civil War, industrialization was most prominent in the Northern States while the Southern economic backbone encompassed plantations. With the end of the war, the country’s economy changed as the Northerners’ influence spread beyond their States: “canal companies and later railway companies provided transport infrastructure” to aid the spread of businesses (More, ...

Despite increased global policy attention on human issues over the past decades, human trafficking remains not only widespread but also deeply entrenched in most countries throughout the world (International Organization for Migration [IOM]). In South Asian countries, however, human trafficking is a plague. Whereas this problem can take several forms such as forced labor, servitude, peonage, bondage, and child trading in other parts of the world, in South Asia women and children sex trafficking is the most problematic, entrenched, and the most prevalent (IOM). Several factors have been shown to cause, influence, and sustain child sex trafficking in South ...

The Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement is a kind of political movement, directed the discriminated to be recognized by the society, and treated equally, protected by the law, regardless of their race, skin color, sex, etc. The human rights movements took place in different countries and in different time, but they have always had lots of similarities.
They often arose, as a result of discrimination, bigotry and intolerance, when there had been abandoned the mother language, the lifestyle, rejected and disapproved points of view, ideas, and forbidden to think differently.
The civil rights movement allowed to solve numerous problems, arising in ...