This resource discusses how different immigrant groups create social organizations and communities in different nations and how they take care of their own people and become part of the larger community.
This exercise involves accessing the latest U.S. Census data to learn more about an individual's home community. Learning Goals: To understand the data-based nature of sociological investigations; To become familiar with a major source of data about people in the United States; To learn one way of using the world wide web to access data.
This exercise asks students to locate abstracts to papers containing original research, using a database of scholarly abstracts. Students can either search on an assigned topic or on one of their own choosing. Since not all abstracts are to papers with original research, students need to learn how to distinguish such papers from ones without original research.
In this exercise, students have the opportunity to create, share, and debate utopian societies which they have created in class.
A collection of videos featuring beliefs and traditions of various cultures from National Geographic.