I have research paper due august 4, has to be 6 pages, i need help with some topics. any ideas?

I have cut and pasted a few different types of Sociology and the people that were responsible for these new theories. I would suggest that you write about one of these theories or write about one specific Sociologist that I've mentioned and do the whole paper on that person and his their beliefs. Positivism and anti-positivism Main articles: Positivism, Sociological positivism, and Antipositivism Max WeberThe methodological approach towards sociology by early theorists, led by Comte, was to treat it in much the same manner as natural science, applying much the same methods as those used in the natural sciences. The emphasis on empiricism and the scientific method sought to provide an incontestable foundation for any sociological claims or findings, and to distinguish sociology from less empirical fields such as philosophy. This methodological approach, called positivism, is based on the assumption that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can come only from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific and quantitative methods. Reactions against positivism began when German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel voiced opposition to both empiricism, which he rejected as uncritical, and determinism, which he viewed as overly mechanistic.[12] Karl Marx's methodology borrowed from Hegel a rejection of positivism in favour of critical analysis, which seeks to supplement the empirical acquisition of "facts" with the elimination of illusions.[13] Marx maintained that appearances need to be critiqued, not simply documented.[13] Other philosophers, including Heinrich Rickert and Wilhelm Dilthey, argued that the natural world differs from the social world because of unique aspects of human society, such as meanings, symbols, rules, norms, and values, all of which inform human cultures. This view was further developed by Max Weber, who introduced the term antipositivism. According to this view, sociological research should concentrate on human cultural values, symbols, and social processes viewed from a subjective perspective. Weber felt that sociology should be a "science", able to identify causal relationships—especially among ideal types, or hypothetical simplifications of complex social phenomena.[14] As a nonpositivist, however, Weber sought relationships that were not as "ahistorical, invariant, or generalizable"[15] as those pursued by natural scientists. Émile Durkheim was a major proponent of theoretically founded empirical sociological research,[16] both qualitative and quantitative. His empirical bent was informed by an interest in applying sociological findings to the pursuit of social progress and reform. Today, scholarly accounts of Durkheim's positivism may be vulerable to exaggeration and oversimplification.[17] [edit] Twentieth-century developments An example of a social network diagramIn the early 20th century, sociology expanded in the United States of America, including developments in both macrosociology, concerned with the evolution of societies, and microsociology, concerned with everyday human social interactions. Based on the pragmatic social psychology of George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer and, later, the Chicago school), sociologists developed symbolic interactionism.[18] In Europe, in the Interwar period, sociology generally was both attacked by increasingly totalitarian governments and rejected by conservative universities. At the same time, originally in Austria and later in the U.S., Alfred Schütz developed social phenomenology, which would later inform social constructionism. Also, members of the Frankfurt school, most of whom moved to the U.S. to escape Nazi persecution, developed critical theory, integrating critical, idealistic and historical materialistic elements of the dialectical philosophies of Hegel and Marx with the insights of Freud, Max Weber—in theory, if not always in name—and others. In the 1930s in the U.S., Talcott Parsons developed action theory which integrated the study of social order and the voluntaristic aspects of macro and micro structural factors, while placing this discussion within a higher epistemological and explanatory context of system theory and cybernetics

I have cut and pasted a few different types of Sociology and the people that were responsible for these new theories. I would suggest that you write about one of these theories or write about one specific Sociologist that I've mentioned and do the whole paper on that person and his their beliefs. Positivism and anti-positivism Main articles: Positivism, Sociological positivism, and Antipositivism Max WeberThe methodological approach towards sociology by early theorists, led by Comte, was to treat it in much the same manner as natural science, applying much the same methods as those used in the natural sciences. The emphasis on empiricism and the scientific method sought to provide an incontestable foundation for any sociological claims or findings, and to distinguish sociology from less empirical fields such as philosophy. This methodological approach, called positivism, is based on the assumption that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can come only from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific and quantitative methods. Reactions against positivism began when German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel voiced opposition to both empiricism, which he rejected as uncritical, and determinism, which he viewed as overly mechanistic.[12] Karl Marx's methodology borrowed from Hegel a rejection of positivism in favour of critical analysis, which seeks to supplement the empirical acquisition of "facts" with the elimination of illusions.[13] Marx maintained that appearances need to be critiqued, not simply documented.[13] Other philosophers, including Heinrich Rickert and Wilhelm Dilthey, argued that the natural world differs from the social world because of unique aspects of human society, such as meanings, symbols, rules, norms, and values, all of which inform human cultures. This view was further developed by Max Weber, who introduced the term antipositivism. According to this view, sociological research should concentrate on human cultural values, symbols, and social processes viewed from a subjective perspective. Weber felt that sociology should be a "science", able to identify causal relationships—especially among ideal types, or hypothetical simplifications of complex social phenomena.[14] As a nonpositivist, however, Weber sought relationships that were not as "ahistorical, invariant, or generalizable"[15] as those pursued by natural scientists. Émile Durkheim was a major proponent of theoretically founded empirical sociological research,[16] both qualitative and quantitative. His empirical bent was informed by an interest in applying sociological findings to the pursuit of social progress and reform. Today, scholarly accounts of Durkheim's positivism may be vulerable to exaggeration and oversimplification.[17] [edit] Twentieth-century developments An example of a social network diagramIn the early 20th century, sociology expanded in the United States of America, including developments in both macrosociology, concerned with the evolution of societies, and microsociology, concerned with everyday human social interactions. Based on the pragmatic social psychology of George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer and, later, the Chicago school), sociologists developed symbolic interactionism.[18] In Europe, in the Interwar period, sociology generally was both attacked by increasingly totalitarian governments and rejected by conservative universities. At the same time, originally in Austria and later in the U.S., Alfred Schütz developed social phenomenology, which would later inform social constructionism. Also, members of the Frankfurt school, most of whom moved to the U.S. to escape Nazi persecution, developed critical theory, integrating critical, idealistic and historical materialistic elements of the dialectical philosophies of Hegel and Marx with the insights of Freud, Max Weber—in theory, if not always in name—and others. In the 1930s in the U.S., Talcott Parsons developed action theory which integrated the study of social order and the voluntaristic aspects of macro and micro structural factors, while placing this discussion within a higher epistemological and explanatory context of system theory and cybernetics

~~~~Crime, delinquency, drug addiction, race relations, etc ~~~~Examination of the movies, television and radio, popular music, newspapers, magazines, and popular reading which have affected our values. http://www2.shastacollege.edu/jvargas/vsocdsc.html ~~~~Drew Peterson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Peterson