1) What question did you try to answer? (1/2 point)
- How did Sociology come about?
2) What search engine or engines did you use? (1/2 point)
- I used google and ask as my search engines.
3) What search terms did you use?
- I used two different phrases to search my topic:
1. Sociology History
2. Sociology Created
3b) How many results did you get when you entered your terms? How many did you get when you used OR? Which set was bigger? Can you figure out why?
-Sociology History
Ask: 4,927,000
Google: 28,900,000
Sociology Created
Ask: 1,789,000
Google: 8,210,000
The biggest set of results was given by google. My guess that google has more results is because google is a more common search engine and most webpages that want to publish their websites give their information to those search engines that are being used the most.
Evaluate: http://www.franz-oppenheimer.de/fo27b.htm
4)What questions did you use to evaluate your results?
Credibility- Who published the web page?
The publisher is Franz Oppenheimer.
Context- Is new research being reported or is the author reviewing previously conducted research?
In my opinion he is giving his views on how sociology came about and a topic like this is not very clear. Many sociologist have different meanings to sociology history or its creation.
Commercialism- Are there any hidden cost?
For this article there was no hidden cost nor did it as me to insert any personal information.
Accuracy- How is the information presented?
The information was presented as more of an opinion based answer. The article seemed very reliable and there was plenty of resources that proved the statements presented.
4b) What conclusion did you draw about the value of the site and why?
Overall I believed that this article was mostly credible. The publisher cites most of his ideas and therefore it proves that its true. There were a few parts of the article where there was no citation. Though there was a publisher of the article I am not sure if that publisher really write all the information given.
5) Having conducted this research activity, what questions came into your mind that you could use to continue your exploration? (1 point)
As i conducted the research activity one question that came into my mind was "Is there a specif history behind sociology or is it just different opinions?" then, "How long has sociology been around?".
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Google is definitely a bigger site than ask.com.
ReplyDeleteWith commercialism, charging a fee is one way to assess that, but another way is to note whether the site ends in .com, which would indicate commerce. In this case, this is not a .com site. In fact, .de stands for Denmark.
In addition, this is excerpted from a research paper with footnotes and selected references. Also, if you go to the main home page, you see a list of highly credible links and papers. This can be considered a trustworthy site.
You are correct, however, in saying that this presents an opinion, but the opinion comes from an authorized source and is an educated opinion. aline