Help in Finding an Appropriate Theory for Your Project

 

Bibliographies by Topic. All of these references use mid-range theories in the research reported. They will give you good examples of the theories used to address these broad areas of interest that many students share. This will help point you to theories that you may want to use for your semester project in this class. We use these resources in an exercise in our first class meeting, too.

Environmentalism

Health Behaviors

Human Wildlife Interactions

Positive Youth Development

Quality of Life

Sustainability

Youth & Violence

Youth Identity

Theories and Examples of Variables for Social Science (Dr. Kelly Moore) This document gives you literally a list of commonly-used social science theories and their major components. It should help you find a theory appropriate for your semester project.

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