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Sociology

Subject

Topic

Aging

Alcohol

American Community Survey

American Dream

Anti-Gender

Anti-Race/Ethnicity

Anti-Religion

Anti-Sexual Orientation

Armed Forces

COVID-19

Canada

Census

Chemicals

Chicago

Children

Class

Cohabitation

Colonial Powers

Community

Concentric Zones

Congress

Coronavirus

Crime Rates

Data

Data Collection

Death

Demographics

Diversity

Divorce

Download

Drugs

Education

Elections

Employment

Environmental Hazards

Environmental Justice

Environmental Studies

Ethnic Village

Ethnicity

Families

Fieldwork

Food

Foreign-Born

GDP

Gay

Gender

Geographical Location

Gerrymandering

Global Cities

Hate Crime

Health

Health Behaviors

Health Inequality

Healthy Foods

Heath

Households

Housing

Hypotheses

Immigration

Income

Inequality

Institutions

LGBT

LGBTQ

Language

Law Enforcement

Lesbian

Life Expectancy

Linguistics

Living Single

Los Angeles

Marriage

Marriages and Families

Measurement

Mental Health

Migration

Missing Data

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Multiracial

NOIR

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Neighborhood

Neighborhoods

Non-Family

Obesity

Ohio

Physical Activity

Physical Health

Policy

Population

Population Loss

Poverty

Property Crime

Psychology

Race

Race & Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity

Racial Inequality

Redlining

Reliability Validity

Religion

Report

Research

Research Cycle

Research Methods

Research Questions

Rural

Same Sex Partners

Same-Sex Marriage

Sampling

Scales

Segregation

Sidewalks

Single Parents

Social Justice

Social Vulnerability

Social Welfare

Social Work

Sociology

Stratification

Streets

Struggling

Suburban

Suburbanization

Sunbelt

The Great Migration

Tobacco

Unemployment

Unmarried Partners

Urban

Urban Growth

Urban Poverty

Urban Village

Urbanism

Urbanization

Violent Crime

Wealth

Wealth Gap

Women

Women in the Workforce

World Cities

Marriages & Families 5 lecture launchers

Mapping Changes in American Families

15 minutes

Intermediate

This module explores changes in family patterns across the U.S. in recent decades.
Increase in Cohabiting (Unmarried Partner) Households 2000-2018

15 minutes

Intermediate

This module examines the rise in cohabiting (unmarried partner) households from 2000 to 2018.
Rise and Stabilization of Single-Parent Families 1960-2018

15 minutes

Intermediate

This module examines the rise and subsequent stabilization of single-parent households in the second half of the 20th century to the present.

Research Methods 9 lecture launchers

Exploring the Correlation between Class and Race

10 minutes

Intermediate

This module explores the most common research questions in the social sciences concerning the relationship between race and class and its impact.
Exploring Health Conditions in the United States

10 minutes

Intermediate

This module will show users how to explore changes in various health conditions over the years as a means of answering related research questions.
Downloading Census Data for Analysis

10 minutes

Intermediate

This module demonstrates how Social Explorer can be used to download clean and organized datasets for further analysis.

Social Justice 1 lecture launcher

Poverty and Exposure to Environmental Hazards

20 minutes

Advanced

This module uses census data to explore the intersection of poverty, race and ethnicity, and environmental hazards.

Social Problems 17 lecture launchers

Work and Unemployment

10 minutes

Intermediate

This module employs U.S. census data to explore rates of labor force participation.
Health and COVID-19

15 minutes

Beginner

This module explores the cumulative mortality rate per 100,000 across U.S. counties.
Crime and Social Control

10 minutes

Intermediate

This module employs FBI crime data to explore hate crimes in general and by race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and gender.

Sociology 14 lecture launchers

Is the American Dream Dying? Or Just Changing?

15 minutes

Beginner

This module examines the changing relationship between higher educational attainment & poverty rates in the Industrial Midwest.
Linguistic Diversity in the United States

15 minutes

Intermediate

This module examines the complex history of language in the U.S.
Religious Diversity in the United States

15 minutes

Intermediate

This module examines how religion has shaped American life & society.

Urban Sociology 6 lecture launchers

Locating LGBTQ Neighborhoods

20 minutes

Advanced

This module explores and examines the locations of LGBTQ communities in the United States.
Urban Growth Patterns

20 minutes

Beginner

This module examines Ernest Burgess' famous Concentric Zones model for the analysis of city growth and change.
Urbanism as a Way of Life

10 minutes

Beginner

This module introduces the data variables that drove much of early American urban research.