Week 8 Assignment

Article 1: Socio-economic status and fertility decline: Insights from historical transitions in Europe and North America.

a.  Historical Abstracts - History
b. Dribe, M., Breschi, M., Gagnon, A., Gauvreau, D., Hanson, H. A., Maloney, T. N., … Vézina, H. (2017). Socio-economic status and fertility decline: Insights from historical transitions in Europe and North America. Population Studies, 71(1), 3–21. https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:4120/10.1080/00324728.2016.1253857
c. This will be helpful for giving an overview of both socio-economic status and industrialization in Europe. Although industrialization may not be a major focus in this article, the general background information is extremely useful.

Article 2: SOCIAL EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT-CONSEQUENCES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ENTERPRISE

a. Sociological Abstracts  - Sociology
b. de, M. F. (1960). SOCIAL EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT-CONSEQUENCES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ENTERPRISE. Sociologia, 22(3), 231-240. Retrieved from https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:3080/docview/60595352?accountid=14902
c. This article is helpful in analysis of economics and the way industrialization affected demographics. This is an exremely useful article because what I need directly relates the industrialization, economics, and social effects.

Article 3: Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health: The Bubonic Plague Epidemic of 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

a. America: History and Life - History
b. Zulawski, A. (2018). Environment, Urbanization, and Public Health: The Bubonic Plague Epidemic of 1912 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Latin American Research Review, 53(3), 500–516. https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:4120/10.25222/larr.424
c. This article will be useful as it talks about the industrialization in Europe. It contrasts this with the Bubonic Plague outbreak in Puerto Rico, and lack of infrastructure due to rapid urbanization.

Reflection:

Overall, after getting the hang of it, searching in subject-specific databases wasn't too hard. The hardest part about it was getting a subject-specific database that fit what I was looking for through the WSUV library website. After going through and finding a few databases that worked, searching for articles was rather easy. The different perspectives on each was interesting, especially getting different results even though I didn't really change my search each time. This could be helpful in the future if a multidisciplinary database doesn't work, looking through a variety of subject-specific databases could be just what is needed to get a different perspective on the issue.