CS+Sociology: Global Inequality Lab 1

These materials include background for the instructor and a lab that engages student in an analysis of global inequality while learning and using the R language (a programming language for statistics). Students obtain data on the US and two other countries (one more developed and one less developed)

1997 General Correspondence

Primarily incoming and outgoing letters between DWC chairs and members of the Executive Board, Committees and Task Forces; Chris Rasch

Intentional Community Formation: Contexts, Values and the Creation of Community

The formation of intentional communities is a recurrent event in world history. Although 1969 has been labeled "the year of the commune," the group living, communism of consumption and free love frequently associated with the communes of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States were far from original, and their ideologies were far from the extremes proposed by some earlier group efforts to create the ideal way of life. Even without the advertising advantages of television, glossy magazines and the mimeograph machine, intentional communities have attracted the attention of writers since before the time of Christ. Although the phenomenon of intentional community formation is recurrent, it is not constant. On the contrary, certain periods of time and in certain cultures, such as the late 1960s in the United States, appear to be particularly conducive to the emergence of intentional communities and produce large numbers of them, while others produce a small number, and still others, none at all. This thesis attempts to gain an understanding of one aspect of this variation: intentional communities are formed in unusually large numbers in certain social and temporal settings. These settings typically exist in societies which are undergoing social and economic changes and which contain large anomie groups

CS+Sociology: Global Inequality Lab 2

These materials include background for the instructor and a lab that engages student in an analysis of global inequality while learning and using the R language (a programming language for statistics). Students ultimately write a function to access country level data from the CIA World Factbook

CS + Sociology: Using Big Data to Identify and Understand Educational Inequality in America (1)

This is the first of two lessons/labs for teaching and learning of computer science and sociology. Either and be used on their own or they can be used in sequence, in which case this should be used first. Students will develop CS skills and behaviors including but not limited to: learning what an API is, learning how to access and utilize data on an API, and developing their R coding skills and knowledge. Students will also learn basic, but important, sociological principles such as how poverty is related to educational opportunities in America. Although prior knowledge of CS and sociology is helpful, neither is necessary for student (or instructor) success on this two-week project. Three instructional hours per week (total of six hours over two weeks)

Russian Mafia In America: Immigration, Culture, And Crime

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CS + Sociology: Using Big Data to Identify and Understand Educational Inequality in America ( 2)

This lesson is connected to but can be used independently of Using Big Data to Identify and Understand Educational Inequality in America (1) Students will develop CS skills and behaviors including but not limited to: learning what an API is, learning how to access and utilize data on an API, and developing their R coding skills and knowledge. Students will also learn basic, but important, sociological principles such as how poverty is related to educational opportunities in America (and how this relationship varies between and among states). Although prior knowledge of CS and sociology is helpful, neither is necessary for student (or instructor) success on this project. Three instructional hours

White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers /

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