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Electronic Sociology - a key to know each other better

1999
The E-Sociology is a ThinkQuest 99 entry, which is to help students to know each other better and to perform some research work through Internet for it. Entry consists of three main parts. First of them tells about the results of comparative sociological study performed by a group of students from Ukraine and USA via e-mail. Second part makes it possible for any school all over the world to carry out such a study via Internet. All results are processed automatically. Third part represents the results of sociological study that is performed by means of the web-pages at ThinkQuest site thought Internet. Results are updated automatically and given in diagrams. All schools are invited to take part in this activity. Groups of students 10-13 years old are invited to answer questions of the survey and analyze results, high school students - to help them in analyzing and to make reports on this basis. Users can also discuss possibilities of e-sociology approach and propose interesting questions for it.