ICPSR & Web of Science workshop

When: Tuesday March 6, 2007. Time: 4:15-4:45. Where: Olin Library ARC lab, Level A.

The concept for this class is similar to the final project for Writing I students. We will begin with a particular article, (Shuman, H. and Rieger, C. "Historical Analogies, Generational Effects, and Attitudes Toward War". American Sociological Review, 1992, Vol. 57 pp. 315-326) and use it to discover how to retrieve a dataset and examine the relationship(s) between the data and published articles about the data using the ICPSR website and Web of Science. In this way students may think more critically about topics in the social sciences and also about social scientists and their professional "conversations".

Links:

• ICPSR: the Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research
• Web of Science
• Contact for more information- Barb Rekhop: brehkop@wustl.edu