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Teachers Rule!

I am sure you like your teacher, and are quite the teacher's pet! But how do other students in your school feel about their teacher? Will younger students like their teacher more than older students? What other trends can you investigate?   Read more...
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Testing Behavioral Incentives

What motivates you to clean your room/mow the lawn/wash the dishes (substitute your own responsibility at home)? What motivates you to do something you really like to do? Or think about this: you'd like to get your younger brother or sister to do you a favor. What strategy works best? Here is a project designed to test which incentive strategy works best for encouraging small children to complete a task.   Read more...
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What Bone Do Children Break Most Often, and What Is the Main Cause? *

Here's a project that will give you insight into accidents, and maybe help you prevent them. The original project used a survey method to gather data, which you could also do. Another approach...   Read more...
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Do People Take Longer When Someone Is Waiting? Perception vs. Reality *

Maybe this has happened to you: you're going shopping with one of your parents and the parking lot is really crowded. You're helping out, scouting for an empty space. You see someone heading...   Read more...
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Only If They Think They Can Get Away with It?

How many times have you noticed someone who looks perfectly healthy using a parking space reserved for the handicapped at a busy shopping center? If this behavior gets you steamed, you might be interested in studying how to discourage handicapped parking cheaters. Is it enough to let them know someone might be watching?   Read more...
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Spending Habits: Tightwads vs. Spendthrifts

Do you have a hard time hanging on to your money or do you have a harder time letting it go? This project shows you how to conduct a simple survey to measure how people manage their money. Find out what percentage of your classmates are 'spendthrifts' and what percentage are 'tightwads.'   Read more...
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Does Gender Affect Color Preference? *

If you compare products made primarily for boys with products made primarily girls, you will probably notice differences in colors for the two groups. Why do you think this is? Is it the...   Read more...
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The Effects of a Student-Generated Lesson Summary on Retention *

We can't say it any better than he did, so here is Ryan Ponec's capsule description of his excellent project (Ponec, 2002): "At the end of a lesson, a teacher will sometimes have students summarize...   Read more...
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Can Adults Pass a Middle School Science Test? *

How well do adults understand basic science concepts? This project is a good opportunity for you to test your own scientific understanding as you create a short test to assess knowledge of basic...   Read more...
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Why Are Teens Stressed? *

What causes the most stress for teenagers? Is it school? family relationships? peer pressure? worries about the future? Design a survey to find out what contributes to teens' stress levels....   Read more...
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Index of Sociology Project Ideas
Boys and Girls All Around the Town | Teachers Rule! | Testing Behavioral Incentives | What Bone Do Children Break Most Often, and What Is the Main Cause? | Do People Take Longer When Someone Is Waiting? Perception vs. Reality | Only If They Think They Can Get Away with It? | Spending Habits: Tightwads vs. Spendthrifts | Does Gender Affect Color Preference? | The Effects of a Student-Generated Lesson Summary on Retention | Can Adults Pass a Middle School Science Test? | Why Are Teens Stressed? | How Do Fears Change with Age? | Decisions, Decisions: Judging a Book by Its Cover? | A Box Office Disappointment: Why the Book is Always Better than the Movie | The Eye of the Beholder and the Mind of the Beheld | The Power of Suggestion | Is It OK to Cheat If Everyone Else Is? | Does Birth Order Affect Grade Point Average? | Evolution of Friendship Groups Over Time | Testing How Fashion Impacts the Behavior of Others Around Us | The Case of Mistaken Identity |