Elhum Haghighat-Sordellini, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a Sociology of Education class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at demographic information and educational attainment in the United States.

Kyle Crowder, Western Washington University

This activity is used in an Introduction to Populations Issues class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at education, marital status, age and race to explore migration trends in the United States.

Kyle Crowder, Western Washington University

This activity is used in a Populations Problems class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at population in the in the 1990s and the labor force and educational attainment over time in the United States.

Raymond D’Angelo, St. Joseph’s College

This activity is used in an Introduction to Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at inequality in the United States.

Heather Fitz Gibbon, College of Wooster

This activity is used in a General Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at factors that affect income and poverty in the United States over time.

Brent Marshall, University of Central Florida

This exercise was developed for use in an upper-level sociology course that focuses on race and ethnicity. In this particular exercise, students complete a brief exercise in order to become acquainted with WebCHIP in order to complete the more lengthy Part II of the Social Stratification/Race and Ethnicity activity.

Jeffrey Lasbrook, SUNY Brockport

This exercise was developed for use in an upper-level sociology course. The exercise was presented as part of a unit to better understand the concepts of social class, wealth, and power by examining historical and contemporary data on financial resources. This is Part II of Jeffrey Lashbrook’s exercise, continuing off of “Current and Historic Patterns in the Distribution of Income.

Amy Foerster, afoerster@pace.edu, Pace University

Early in the semester students were introduced to the idea that the arts, arts tourism and arts-related jobs are intrinsic to the economies of many major cities. Readings for this module included Richard Florida’s “Cities and the Creative Class,” Lawton, Murphy and Redmond’s “Residential Preferences of the Creative Class,” and segments of David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso’s New York’s New Edge: Contemporary Art, the High Line and Urban Megaprojects on New York’s Far West Side as well as Elizabeth Currid’s The Warhol Economy: How Fashion Art and Music Drive New York City. Classroom activities (lectures, exercises, discussion) for this module focused on introducing the concept of the “creative class,” examining how the term is defined, operationalized and measured by Florida, and why it has been critiqued as both an analytical category and as an engine of urban economic growth. (Related discussion topics included gentrification, job growth, and economic development.) Prior to assignment submission, instructors conducted an in-class workshop on how to read the data tables, and, perhaps more challengingly, in which students were asked to “tell a story” about American cities by using only the data presented in the tables.

Barbara E. Johnson, barbj@usca.edu, University of South Carolina Aiken

This lab exercise designed for lower level undergraduates can be used in many sociology classes, most notably Introductory sociology, Social problems, Sociology of the Family, Basic Statistics and/or Research Methods. The exercise was created for an hour and fifteen minute lab period. Students must have access to the internet and should have a basic understanding of simple methodological concepts. The exercise can be completed once the chapter on methods in an Introductory textbook has been completed. The time needed for the module can be adapted be eliminating sections. The exercises build on each other, so it is possible to only do 1-3 or divide across several class sessions.

Raymond D’Angelo, St. Joseph’s College

This activity is used in an Introduction to Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at inequality and race/ethnicity in the United States.

Amy Guptill, SUNY-Brockport

This activity is used in an Introductory Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at marriage trends and age in the United States over time.

Jill Bouma, Berea College

This activity is used in a Problems in American Institutions class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of race/ethnicity and gender on earnings in the United States.

Jill Bouma, Berea College

This activity is used in a Gender and Sex Roles class for undergraduate students. This activity explores gender and earnings differences in the United States

Richard Bulcroft, Western Washington University

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of household/family and marriage, divorce, cohabitation and childbearing in the United States.

Sandra Apgar, Sinclair Community College

This activity is used in an introductory sociology class class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of race and ethnicity in Ohio.

Kristin Anderson, Western Washington University

This activity is used in a Gender and Society class for undergraduate students. This activity includes the topics of income, poverty and gender, includes an investigation of historical patterns of the interaction between gender and income.

Kofi Benefo, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of race/ethnicity, gender and income to look at patterns of inequality among education, occupation and earning between different groups.

Kofi Benefo, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of race/ethnicity, gender and income to look at marital and divorce patterns in the United States.

Kofi Benefo, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores the topic of poverty and how income interacts with race/ethnicity and family type in the United States.

Kofi Benefo, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of gender and education to look at the gender gap in the United States.

Meredith Redlin, South Dakota State University

This exercise was designed for a sociology course and focuses on rural youth in the United States. Students will complete an exercise of simplified recreation of study data and then take on the role as researchers and use their own class data for hypothesis formulation and testing. The data is compiled by the instructor and crosstabulations are run for each variable. Student then devise original hypotheses and analyze the data using their choice of variables from the data set.

Kathy Rowell, Sinclair Community College

This exercise, designed for a sociology class and loooks at gender income disparities in the United States.

Kathy Rowell, Sinclair Community College

Students in this sociology class will evaluate and analyze if age, race, and/or family size affect children in poverty in the United States.

Rongjun Sun, Cleveland State University

This exercise for a Social Demography class utilizes DataCounts! census data to analyze a problem of interest.

Adrianne Frech, University of Akron

Kofi Benefo, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores multiple topics describing the area where an individual student resides.

Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Miami Univeristy, Department of Sociology & Gerontology

This assignment is used in a junior-level undergraduate course on the sociology of aging. The class size is approximately 30 students. Students are allowed to work individually or in small teams to complete the project. The instructor illustrates the website and practices accessing, using, and interpreting results with the students during class. After covering the related course material, the assignment is then distributed to students and they have three weeks to complete the project. The biggest challenge the students face is correctly choosing which way to percentage their cross-tabs. Additional time discussing this issue during class is advisable.

Rongjun Sun, Cleveland State University

This exercise for a Social Demography class utilizes General Social Survey data to analyze a problem of interest.

Stephen Sweet, Ithaca College

In this exercise designed for an introductory sociology course. Students will examine social inequality at the community level, looking at income distributions in the U.S. and in different places within the U.S., as well as the ways in which ethnic groups are segregated by geographic area.

Jana Jasinski, University of Central Florida

This activity is used in a Sociology of Violence class for undergraduate students. This activity teaches students about race, gender and violence in the United States.

Barbara Risman, North Carolina State University

This exercise was designed for a sociology course. Students will look at race/ethinicity, family type and income in the United States.

Kathy Rowell, Sinclair Community College

Students in this sociology class will explore concepts of multiracial populations and levels of segregation in this exercise.

Marnie Rodriguez, Cleveland State University

This exercise was designed for a race, class, and gender course. In this exercise, students will play the role of a social researcher hired by business developers. The student will have to utilize income and education data to inform the “developers” whether there will be adequate demand for the goods.

This activity is used in a Sociology of Violence class for undergraduate students. This activity
uses Census data to look at the correlation between marriage, crime and
welfare services.

Bill Morgan, Cleveland State University

This exercise is designed for an advanced sociology class and focuses on the 1965 Immigration Reform Act on the population structure in the United States.

Bill Morgan, Cleveland State University

This exercise is designed for an advanced sociology class and focuses on education and occupation among different race/ethnicity groups in specified states.

Bill Morgan, Cleveland State University

This exercise is designed for an advanced sociology class and focuses on education, occupation, race, nativity and earnings in New York.

Susanne Morgan, Ithaca College

This exercise was developed for use in a introductory sociology course. Students will use data to look at racial groups and income/poverty in the United States.

Joan Morris, University of Central Florida

This exercise was developed for use in a general sociology course. Students will hypothesize about relationships between race, education, geographic area, and poverty and analyze data sets to determine draw conclusions about variable relationships.

Susanne Morgan, Ithaca College

This exercise was developed for use in a lower-level sociology course. Students will complete an exercise that involves individual guesses, group consensus, and then demonstration of census data to understand the relationship between education level and income.

James A. Vela-McConnell, Augsburg College

In this exercise designed for a Race, Class and Gender course. Students will examine the effect of gender and race on social class in the United States.

Jim Wright, University of Central Florida

This exercise for an Urban Sociology course provides a look at demographics in Florida Metropolitian Area.

James Chriss, Cleveland State University

This activity is used in Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores a variety of topics that predict attitudes toward the death penalty in the United States.

Jeffrey Lashbrook, SUNY- Brockport

This exercise was developed for use in an introductory sociology course. The exercise was presented as part of a unit to explore the impact of gender on the earnings of full-time workers in general and within a specific occupation.

Steven Lilley, North Carolina State University

This exercise was developed for use in an introductory population course. The exercise was presented as part of a unit on race and ethnicity, and focuses on the dissimilarity index.

Elizabeth Jordan, Kalamazoo College

This exercise was developed for use in an introductory psychology course. The exercise was presented as part of a unit on research methodology and statistics, and looks at marriage and childbearing in the United States.

Robert T. Hall, West Virginia State College

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at disabilities and inequalities in the United States.

Willie Melton, Michigan Technological University

This exercise is designed for an upper-level society or women’s studies course. The exercise would seem to work best with readings or discussions of gender, family structure, social stratification and life chances.

Andy Sharma, PhD MS MA
Northwestern University

This assignment is suitable for courses in demography, economics, public
health, public policy, and sociology.
Students must integrate table results from the module into a report which
addresses (1) the aging of the U.S. population, (2) how the population
structure varies by gender, (3) the older adult population size and structure
for the two or three selected cities or counties in the Midwest, and (4) how
this information can be useful for health planning. For (4), students will
need to utilize library sources to obtain peer-reviewed articles which expand
upon the COVID-19 research article from this exercise.

Charles Combs, Sinclair Community College

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at the different aspects of CensusScope.

Charles Combs, Sinclair Community College

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity helps students learn about research/data manipulation vocabulary and teaches students about research fundamentals.

Jeffrey Leiter, jeff_leiter@ncsu.edu, North Carolina State University

This exercise was developed for use in an introductory sociology course. It focuses on income and poverty between race/ethinic groups in the United States.

Wendy D. Manning, Bowling Green State University

This exercise was developed for use in an upper-level sociology course. In this exercise, students will work in groups of 2-3 to analyze data of 1 of 16 issues relating to fertility and demographic trends.

Tracy Dietz, University of Central Florida

This activity is used in a General Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks attitudes towards premarital sex in the U.S. by race, sex, age, political party and education.

Suzanne R. Goodney-Lea, University of Michigan-Flint

This activity is used in a Research Methods class for undergraduate students. This activity uses data to evaluate and compare school district performance.

Kofi Benefo, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of race/ethnicity in families in the United States.

Jeffrey Lashbrook, SUNY Brockport

This exercise was developed for use in an upper-level sociology course. The exercise was presented as part of a unit to better understand the concepts of social class, wealth, and power by examining historical and contemporary data on financial resources, income and poverty.

Chris Carlson, Cornell College

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of households/family, race/ethnicity, and childbearing to look at family change over time in the United States.

Chris Carlson, Cornell College

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of marriage and divorce to look at family change over time in the United States.

Tony Catanese, DePauw College

This activity is used in An Economics of Income Differences class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of income/poverty, occupation and race/gender to look the relationship between education and earnings over time in the United States.

Nancy Davis, DePauw University

This activity is used in an Introduction to Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at education, earnings/income, race/ethnicity and gender over time in the United States.

Jason Ford, University of Central Florida

This activity is used in a Criminology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks as trends in marital status and occupation over time in the United States.

Sandra Apgar, Sinclair Community College

This activity is used in an introductory sociology class class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of race and ethnicity in Ohio.

Jim Jones, Mississippi State University

This module is used in a large (~200 students) introductory course at Mississippi State University. A rubric is included (see PowerPoint file or ‘Part 2’), which allows graduate teaching assistants to assist with grading the assignments. This module has been modified in the past for use in a smaller class without assistants.

Maxine Atkinson, North Carolina State University

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores multiple topics describing the area where an individual student resides.

Kathy Rowell, Sinclair Community College

This exercise was designed for a sociology course. In this, the student explores high-school drop out rates and compares the data between national rates and those in Ohio.

Kyle Crowder, Western Washington University

This activity is used in a Race and Ethnic Relations class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at immigration and migration in the United States.

Kathy Rowell, Sinclair Community College

Students in this sociology class will role play as members of the governor’s office to inform the Governor of many of the problems facing children in the United States and the State of Ohio. Data analysis pertaining to hunger, poverty, crime, health, and education are included as multiple resources for data, in addition to KidsCount, are used.

Kofi Benefo, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of households and families in the United States.

Jill Bouma, Berea College

This activity is used in a Problems in American Institutions class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of education, gender and race in the United States.

Richard Bulcroft, Western Washington University

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of marriage, divorce, cohabitation, race/ethnicity, and income and poverty to look at diversity family trends over in the United States.

Theresa Ciabattari, Wake Forest University

This activity is used in Principles of Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at the labor force and factors that affect occupation over time in the United States on a state-by-state basis.

Charles Combs, Sinclair Community College

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at the various factors including social, economic and demographic thatgo into fashioning a community profile.

Peter Meiksins, Cleveland State University

This exercise was developed for use in an lower-level sociology course that focuses on demographics. For this exercise, students will play the role of consultants and policymakers as they examine datasets pertaining to geography and income level. There are three different versions of this module, each with a different scenario.

Jennifer Montez

Christine McKenna

Sandra M. Florian, University of Southern California

Maria Aysa-Lastra

Kimberly R. Huyser

Jim Wright, University of Central Florida

This exercise for an Urban Sociology course provides a look at population data in the United States and how geographic demographics have changed over time.

Kathleen Abrahamson, PhD, RN, Western Kentucky University, Department of Public Health

This module is designed for use in a undergraduate college classroom. Basic computer skills are necessary, however students of all levels can succeed with instructor guidance. This activity could be used either as a self-directed student activity or as a supplement to classroom lecture material.

James A. Vela-McConnell, Augsburg College

In this exercise designed a for Race, Class and Gender course, students will look at how the relationship between education, family and earnings over time in the United States.

Tim Thorton, SUNY Brockport

In this exercise designed for an introductory sociology course, students will use WebCHIP and data analysis to assess whether there are income discrepancies related to race and gender.

Charles Combs, Sinclair Community College

This activity is used in a Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at martial status, age, race/ethnicity in the United States.

Peter Meiksins, Cleveland State University

This exercise was developed for use in an lower-level sociology course that focuses on demographics, income and poverty across households in the United States.

Joan Spade, SUNY-Brockport

This exercise for a Social Problems class and examines the relationship between income and poverty.

Kofi Benefo, CUNY-Lehman

This activity is used in a sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity explores multiple topics describing the area where an individual student resides.

Jeffrey Lashbrook, SUNY Brockport

This exercise was developed for use in an introductory sociology course. The exercise was presented as part of a unit to better understand the relationship between social class and child-rearing values. Students will analyze the relationship between two variables and fill out a table, and answer optional questions to assess their critical thinking skills.

Dr. Hyeyoung Woo, hyeyoung@pdx.edu, Portland State

Donald Arwood, South Dakota State University

This activity is used in an Population Problems sociology class class for undergraduate students. This activity explores topics of households/families and income/poverty to look at family trends over time.

SSDAN

This exercise was developed for an upper-level course in urban sociology, although it could also be used in courses in urban studies or urban planning. The exercise is designed to be assigned after discussion of topics such as community, neighboring, social networks, and density. Students are required to relate their findings from their data analysis to other concepts discussed in the course. The exercise has several parts, which could be assigned separately. It guides students through data manipulation using WebCHIP software and data found at DataCounts!

SSDAN

This activity is used in a Criminology/Sociology of Violence class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at a variety of factors to determine if there are differences in these variables between Blacks, Whites and Latinos that would provide possible explanations for the higher murder rates for Blacks and Latinos in the United States.

Alan Grigsby, grigsbav@mail.uc.edu, University of Cincinnati, Sociology

Sharilyn Owens, sowens@forsythtech.edu, Forsyth Tech, Mathematics

Mohammed Shahidullah, mshah1@uis.edu, University of Illinois

Andy Sharma, andy.sharma@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University

This assignment is suitable for courses in demography, health economics, and public health. The class size is approximately 20 students. Students work individually on all portions of the assignment. Students must integrate descriptive results from the module into a short policy report which addresses (1) why disability is important from a population health perspective, (2) how disability rates vary by age, (3) how disability rates differ across race, and (4) how this information is useful for policy. For (4), students will need to utilize library sources to obtain peer-reviewed articles which expand upon disability, population health, and policy.

Vivianna Margarita De Jesus Monge, University of Puerto Rico

Elaina Johns-Wolfe, University of Cincinnati

This data analysis module was created for use in an upper-level undergraduate urban sociology course. The exercise is presented as part of a unit on racial and economic residential segregation to understand the relationship between the two, and broad patterns across an urban context. It is an introduction to data analysis, so students do not need to have a statistics or methods prerequisite.

Tanni Chaudhurri, tchaudhuri@ric.edu, Rhode Island College

This module was developed in a Research methods class at Rhode Island College. The 400 level class can be considered one of the capstone requirement for Sociology and Justice Studies majors after they have enrolled in Research Methods I. Typically the class is capped at 24. Rhode Island College is a masters granting academic institution where many of the social science majors come with different levels of quantitative competency. Classes during a typical semester meet twice a week for 1 hour 50 minute in a computer lab with SPSS.

Students work on a lab assignment weekly. For the weekly lab assignments, the students could work in a group of two. Students typically work on the assignment in class using SPSS, and copy paste their findings to a word document. They collaborate outside of class through emails to fine tune data interpretation, and turn in their assignments online end of the week. Furthermore, students also work on a research project using the same data and in the process, accomplish much of the findings and analysis through the lab assignments.

Jill Bouma, boumaj@berea.edu, Berea College

This exercise is aimed for all college levels and does not assume any prior experience working with data.  It is taught in a Sociology of Health class as a vehicle for better understanding disability. It is a lengthy exercise, taking four days, but could be adjusted to be shorter.

Lisa Miller, millerlr@eckerd.edu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Eckerd College, Sociology

This exercise was developed for a 200-level course on the sociology of gender, although it can also be used in introductory sociology, race/class/gender, and stratification courses. Ideally, this module would be assigned after the instructor has introduced the concept of intersectionality and/or to help students understand the intersection of gender and race.

This exercise is designed to help students understand the gender wage gap in America. In addition, the exercise is intended to help students better understand the concept of intersectionality, specifically the idea that it is not sufficient to solely look at one facet of identity when attempting to understand experiences with social life. Here, students see that racial minority women experience multiple forms of oppression (i.e., sexism and racism) that result in them receiving lower pay than white women. Simultaneously, this module pushes students to understand that there are racial differences in men’s experiences in the workplace, as well. In addition, the exercise is designed to help students consider how the intersection of two privileged categories (being white and male) shapes a social outcome, such as earnings.

Sevsem Cicek-Okay, University of Cincinnati, Sociology

This module is for use in undergraduate sociology of immigration courses. This exercise can be used in conjunction with a unit on assimilation theories as it aims to test the basic tenets of assimilation theories when applied to the largest immigrants groups in the United States

Satenik Margaryan

This is one of the components of the semester-long Data Analysis Research (DARE) Project: the students in this course participate in a CUNY-wide initiative funded by the National Science Foundation and designed to improve students’ quantitative reasoning skills. The students complete a multi-step research project on crime and safety in their neighborhoods.

Meredith Gilbertson, Bowling Green State University

This activity is used in an introductory statistics class that is required for sociology majors. This activity looks at demographic information and child poverty in the United States.

Aliya Kuerban PhD FNP RN
Molloy University

This exercise is aimed at higher college levels and beyond. Students should have a fundamental understanding of the nature of dependent, independent, and control variables. Students majoring in health-related and social science disciplines can benefit from this assignment. The results of the study can be tailored as a policy-informing report.

Jim Craig, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Amy E. Traver
Professor of Sociology
Queensborough Community College, The City University of New York

This two-part assignment is designed for Sociology of the Family students to complete at two different moments: in class (the first part, conducted with professor and peer support) and at home (the second part, conducted independently at home using the first part as a model). It is most appropriate for use with students who have successfully completed Introduction to Sociology. Faculty implementing this assignment will be well served by use of a computer, projector, and SSDN data and WebCHIP resources. It is recommended that the first part of the assignment unfold in a computer lab.