Sociologists use data to understand the world. But it is important to know where the data is coming from.
SHS Library has a lesson on sources here.
There is a difference between biased news and fake news.
Don't be fooled by the appearance of the page: a professional looking page, a .org extension, links all might confuse you to thinking the page is not what it is.
Read laterally - go outside the page to learn about it. Snopes, Sourcewatch, Wikipedia, allsides
Find the source of the article, who published it? Who funded it?
More news on the internet is fake than real!
That is why it is important to pay attention to sources. Many sources in the chart above contain explanations of sociology studies. For example, The Atlantic and the NY Times often have stories that cite sociology studies or summarize sociological research.
A great secondary source in sociology is the sociology magazine called Contexts, published by The Society Pages.
The Society Pages contains explanations or summaries of research.
Use Discoveries page
and the In Brief section
to peruse the research. Find an article that is interesting to you. What is the research about?
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