Skill
- Using software to access and analyze census data
- Quantitative writing
- Using real world data to enhance and support key course concepts
Substance
- Use Census data and different data sets to write about social inequality.
This activity is used in an Introduction to Sociology class for undergraduate students. This activity looks at inequality in the United States.
Please see File Attachment(s).
Current and projected data will be used to examine cohort differences among members of various race/ethnic groups as they grow older in order to identify possible political and policy implications for the future. Data from various states and metropolitan cities will be compared.
This activity uses nine customized datasets on the DataCounts! website to aid students in writing about inequality using data. It guides students through data manipulation using WebCHIP software found at DataCounts!. To open WebCHIP with the dataset for the activity, please see instructions and links in the exercise documents under teaching materials. For more information on how to use WebCHIP, see the How To section on DataCounts!