Assignment # 2
Access to Information
1. Sign onto Jstor and pull up one article aurthored by someone in our Sociology Department.
Be sure to print the front page (showing abstract), and identify whether this is a micro or macro explanation.
2. Go to Suncat and find the call number for AJS and ASR in our college library. On what floor would you find
prior volumes?
3. Using Yahoo or Google, find the definitions of search engine vs. meta search engine. Cut and paste those definitions
onto a single page.
4. Use Lexus-Nexus to determine the number of articles (week of Jan 26, 2008) that cite Hillary Clinton referring
to the race of a presidential candidate in campaign speeches and Barack Obama referring to the sex of a presidential
candidate in campaign speeches during the week of January 26, 20085.
5. Go to the Bureau of the Census home page and determine the number of females vs. males in San Jose County for
the 2000 census.