By James C. Witte;Susan E. Mannon
Read or Download The Internet and Social Inequalities (Contemporary Sociological Perspectives) PDF
Similar other social sciences books
Bertrand Russell used to be a British thinker, truth seeker, mathematician, historian, author, social critic, and Nobel laureate. At quite a few issues in his existence he thought of himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist. He was once born in Monmouthshire into the most well-known aristocratic households within the uk.
Social Work for the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Opportunities
This paintings is a serious research of a few of the points of social paintings schooling and perform. It argues that social paintings continues to be a occupation looking for an organization id and a transparent and respectful snapshot. The incorporation of technology and medical technique into social paintings schooling and perform seems to be the most important for the occupation to keep growing and achieve its rightful position within the specialist and educational groups.
- [Article] Transgender Butch
- The Intentional Fallacy
- Social Assistance in the New EU Member States: Strengthening Performance and Labor Market Incentives (World Bank Working Paper) by Dena Ringold (2007-10-30)
- The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
- Roman onomastics in the Greek East: Social and political aspects (Μελετήματα 21)
- El concepto de experiencia de Hegel
Extra resources for The Internet and Social Inequalities (Contemporary Sociological Perspectives)
Sample text
In the second half of this chapter, we’ll take a close look at what people do online and how this varies by the demographic characteristics discussed in the first half of the chapter. 2 provide a basic demographic description of the Pew samples in 2000 and 2007. S. population. It’s important to note, however, that there tend to be gender, race, and educational differences between individuals who agree to participate in surveys and individuals who refuse to participate. S. population than they would otherwise be using random sampling methods.
001. 6 The most significant age-related differences are primarily found for online searches and buying products online, with those over 65 years of age least likely to do each compared with other age groups. With the exception of online searching, there are also significant differences in online activities according to race. Blacks are least likely to use the Internet in all four respects; whites are most likely to use the Internet to buy products online; and Asians are most likely to use the Internet at work and to email.
2 American adults who ever used the Internet by age, 2000 and 2007. 3 American adults who used the Internet on previous day by age, 2000 and 2007. 3 present age-related trends in Internet use among American adults. Here, too, we note increasing percentages of use across all age categories, both among those who had ever used the Internet and among those who had used the Internet the previous day. Among the three youngest age groups (18–24 years, 25–34 years, and 35–44 years), over half had been online in 2000 and over 85 percent had been online as of 2007.