The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize students with interpreting charts and graphs by using a credible source, the US Census.
This module teaches students to think about household and family dynamics over time, and to use computer software to access and analyze census data and to produce and interpret simple statistics.
Students will trace changes in family behavior from 1950 to 1990 and assess their magnitude, considering the pace and timing of these changes. Marital status, number of children and household type will be examined by both race/ethnicity and class.
This activity provides a look at marriage and divorce among different race/ethnicity, ages, education and income levels over time.
Occupational sex segregation will be studied by focusing on traditionally gender-oriented occupations and analyzing which have an increasing proportion of males or females, and which are still mainly gender-specific jobs. These analyses will be done by age group to study trends at different stages of people's careers.
This activity provides a look at poverty among different race/ethnic groups and family types over time.
This activity provides a look at race, ethnicity and immigration in the United States from 1950-2000.
This activity provides a look at race and ethnicity inequality in the United States over time.
The sociologist, Melvin Kohn, argued that people's locations in social structures, particularly the occupational structure, influenced the values they would stress for their children because variations in structural locations exposed them to different experiences.
