Examples of modern social problems include high-risk sexual behaviors, poverty, racism, crime, rape, sexual deviance, student behavioral problems, marital troubles, and the like (at instructor discretion). So, a student could do a paper about using behavioral techniques to reduce student behavioral problems in the classroom, understanding pedophilia from a Freudian perspective, or even gang violence from an evolutionary psychology perspective. It is important that the paper not simply be a review of a specific theory.