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Sociology 145: Sociology of Health (Polonijo)

Group Activity 2

Instructions:

You will have 10 minutes to do this activity, 9 minutes + a 1-minute reminder before the breakout room closes.

  1. Choose a new team "scribe" who will type the group's responses into this form (1 minute)
  2. Each team member should do their own unique searches in the database or website (3 minutes)
  3. Based on your searches, discuss each question with your group to arrive at a shared response that the scribe will enter into the form: (5 minutes)
    1.  
  • What is the name of your database or site
  • What kinds of “stuff does it have?”
  • What were some useful keywords to use? Alternatively, what didn’t work well or was confusing?
  • What were some useful filters or database features you liked?
  • What type of research would you recommend your classmates use this tool for?

Note: All of these databases and resources can be found under the Step 3. Find Research & Information page of this course guide. See the Research Databases subpage and the Locating Statistics & Data subpage for more.

Responses

Group 1

Group 2

Group 2's database is not working, so they will look at the CDC National Health Statistics link (same as Group 9)

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9