Methods of Social Search SOC 301

Part 1) In this week's lab, you are going to find information on the Internet to answer the following question.

• (w4L1) Which state in the US has the largest number of gay adoptions?
• (w4L2) Explain how you found your answer. That is, describe which search engine(s) and what keywords you used to find your answer.
• (w4L3) Provide bibliographic info for the webpage you found, which should include:
  • The author's name (if available) or organization's name,
  • the title of the webpage,
  • the date of retrieval [i.e., the date on which you found the info], and
  • the webpage address.
  
  (w4L4) Visit the following site:https://libguides.tru.ca/c.php?g=194012&p=1277260(... another tab or browser, copy and paste the address to get to the website.)and examine carefully the examples of ASA formatted web pages given there.Present the bibliographic info you listed above (w4L3) in the ASA format.
  
  
  See if different search engines produce the same result.(Open another tab or browser and search from there.)
  • Google
  • http://www.google.com/
  • Yahoo
  • http://search.yahoo.com/
  • • • • Ask
        • http://www.ask.com
  • Microsoft Bing
  • http://www.bing.com/
  • Yippy
  • http://www.yippy.com/
  • Ixquick Metasearch
  • http://www.ixquick.com/
  • Dogpile
  • http://www.dogpile.com/
  • Hotbot
  • http://www.hotbot.com/
  • MetaCrawler Search
  • http://www.metacrawler.com/
  • Lycos
  • http://www.lycos.com
  
  
  Part 2) Answer the following question( the information needed to answer the question are the pictures that I uploaded it)

• w4r21

  Read the introduction section carefully. What factors in restaurant tipping had other researchers studied by the time the authors of this paper conducted this study? List all the factors examined by other researchers.

• w4r22

  What factor did the authors say that no other researchers had examined?

• w4r23

  What particular research question did the authors study?

• w4r24

  Where and when did they collect their data?

• w4r25

  How many servers were there in this study?

• w4r26

  How many cases did they observe?

• w4r27

  For each case, what did they record as their data?

• w4r28

  What is the unit of analysis in this study?

• w4r29

  What answer did they find to their research question?

• w4r30

  Is this an empirical research paper? Explain your answer.