World-Wide Web Resources
Sociology

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  • alt.culture, an A to Z encyclopedia of '90s youth culture.

  • American Demographics Magazine

  • American Sociological Association

  • American Studies Electronic Crossroads (ASEC). Sponsored by the American Studies Association and hosted by Georgetown University, a collection of resources for using technology in American Studies classrooms.

  • Annual Review of Sociology, from Annual Reviews. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

  • The Canadian Journal of Sociology

  • Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict

  • CenStats, from the Census Bureau. User specifies geographic areas, data sets, commodities, etc. and CenStats finds and displays the specified data. As a value-added enhancement, CenStats takes advantage of a standard feature of the Internet by providing direct links between several databases that have common geography (i.e., counties, ZIP code areas, and census tracts).

  • Census Watch, ESRI site with access to information on Census-related data resources, redistricting, online GIS mapping, education and training, as well as news and articles.

  • The Center for Demography & Ecology, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  • The Center for the Study of Group Processes

  • Childstats.gov, Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics coordinates this collection of federal data on child and family issues and conditions.

  • Corrections Information Systems: An Inventory of Data Elements and an Assessment of Reporting Capabilities. Published by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, this report inventories and evaluates 207 data elements used in State and Federal offender-based information systems.

  • County and City Data Books for 1988 and 1994. From the University of Virginia Social Science Data Center. Searchable, it contains demographic, economic, and governmental variables from both federal government and private agency sources, presented for the purpose of multi-area comparisons or single area profiles. Users can choose areas and variables, and there is an option under county and city data to pick all the counties or cities of a particular state. Output can be sorted in three ways, and can be displayed to the browser or saved in an ftp file as either browser output, or comma delimited output for later importing into statistical applications.

  • Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts, US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics database that include selected data through 1996. Lotus spreadsheets (.wk1) are available in 55 subjects covering crimes and arrests, criminal justice, and general demography. The data is "aggregated...from a wide variety of published sources" and presented in this format to facilitate further analysis. Data is available at the national, state, county, and city level. Currency varies by file.

  • Cultural Studies Center, Sarah Zupko has here assembled a collection of cultural studies and sociology resources, including journals, theorists and critics, publishers, academic programs, newsgroups and listservs, as well as bibliographies and online papers and book reviews. Links are also listed for five subject areas: Mass Media/Communication, Cyberspace/Sci-Fi, Television, Film, and International.

  • Currents: news on population topics.

  • Data on the Net, from the University of California at San Diego. Contains a searchable and browsable database of over 750 "Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses." Sites are categorized into data sites, catalogs of data, data archives and vendors of data.

  • Defining Gender, 1450-1910, "Advice Literature for men and women." Access to approximately 50,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including a strong core of documents from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets are featured alongside diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books and periodicals. Structured into five sections: Conduct and Politeness (Section I) [available as of 3/10/04] and Domesticity and the Family (Section II) [available summer 2004]; the other three will be made available over the next three years: Consumption and Leisure (Section III), Education and Sensibility (Section IV) and The Body (Section V). Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • Demographers' Resources on the Internet, designed as a supplement to Thomas Gryn's "Internet Resources for Demographers" paper (Version III).

  • Demographics Journal

  • DIANA, a joint project provided by an international consortium of libraries and human rights organizations. Dedicated to the construction of a comprehensive database of documents essential to human rights research. Segments of the database are hosted by four libraries. The Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto archives women's human rights resources. The Yale Law School Library contains legal briefs, organizational charters, treaty texts, and bibliographies related to human rights. The Robert S. Marx Law Library at the University of Cincinnati College of Law focuses on United Nations and Organization for African Unity materials. The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library is a collection of human rights documents and links.

  • The Durkheim Pages, resource on the French sociologist and philosopher Emile Durkheim, provided by Professor Robert Alun Jones of the University of Illinois. Included are both a complete chronological bibliography of Durkheim's published works and an alphabetical bibliography of hundreds of items about Durkheim. Also features two full texts highlighted by a set of lecture notes taken by the philosopher Andre Lalonde from a course given by Durkheim in 1883-84. A brief biography of Durkheim, a timeline, a list of lecture courses taught by Durkheim, and a glossary of pertinent terms are available.

  • Electronic Journal of Sociology

  • Fedstats, browse the latest public statistics from over 70 agencies of the United States Federal Government.

  • General Social Survey Resources, developed at Queens College. Includes an online searchable version of The Annotated Bibliography of Papers Using the General Social Surveys by Tom Smith, Bradley Arnold, and Jennifer Weseley (Tenth Edition, NORC, 1995).

  • Health Insurance Coverage. From the Census Bureau.

  • Historical United States Census Data Browser

  • H-Net Book Review Project, collection of online academic book reviews, put together by the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Project at Michigan State University. The site contains over 600 scholarly reviews (as of June 30, 1997) on a wide variety of subjects, searchable and sortable in any number of ways, from author and title to ISBN and LC number. Most of the reviews are of books published in the last 3-4 years, and some of them have replies and commentaries by authors appended.

  • Human Rights Meta Search Engine, from the University of Minnesota.

  • Immigration and Naturalization Statistics, provides "comprehensive annual immigration statistics from 1994-1996, as well as state estimates of the United States' illegal alien resident and foreign-born populations."

  • ICPSR, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

  • International Institute of Social History, documentary and research institution for social history in general and for the history of the labor movement in particular. Includes catalog of the IISH's 2,000 archival collections which hold over one million printed volumes and about as many audio-visual items. Also included are a listing of current books put out by the Institute's publishing house, a digital social history archive of "relevant parts of the Internet," and the online newsletter of the Institute for the International Association of Labour History Institutions. Two other items of interest are a collection of useful social and labor history links and digital editions of recent exhibitions at the IISH.

  • International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Includes the mandate and history of the ILO, provides full text of the ILO's core conventions, and outlines its analysis on various labour-related issues, such as labour standards, employment, working conditions, child labour and women at work.

  • International Sociological Association

  • IPUMS, from the University of Minnesota. Provides on-line access to the public-access population database. Composed of national samples of thirteen U.S. censuses from 1850 through 1990. Quantitative source for the study of long-run social and economic change.

  • JSTOR, journal backfile digitizing and storage project providing access to the backfiles of journals in ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, & population studies. Searchable. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.
  • Labor and Urban Affairs Archives, maintains a guide to doing labor research, a current list of links to Industrial libraries and other labor and urban archives, as well as links to Union Web sites related to their collections. Housed at The Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit.

  • Latin American Government Documents Project, from Cornell University.

  • MERGER, newsletter on migration and ethnic relations research. Published three times a year by the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations.

  • The Mid-South Sociological Association

  • Migration and Ethnic Relations Information Board, from the WWW Virtual Library. Can be used to announce sources of information on the topic as well as to post information requests.

  • Money Income in the United States, Current Population Survey. From the Census Bureau.

  • National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), provides summaries of criminal justice literature: government reports, journal articles, books, and more. The database was previously available only on CD-ROM and via DIALOG.

  • OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web. Created by International Commerce & Statistics Librarian Rainer Wolcke at the University of Aukland Library. Access to social, economic and general data from official sources. Lists international statistical centers by country or topic with detailed navigation and downloading instructions.

  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America, voluntary family planning organization that offers information on birth control, abortion, sex education, sexual health, and reproductive rights advocacy.

  • PopLine, citations with abstracts to worldwide literature in the fields of population, family planning, and related health issues. Available from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. No access restrictions.

  • PopNet, from the Population Reference Bureau. Directory of population information resources available on the Web.

  • Population Index on the Web

  • Population Information Network (POPIN), from the United Nations.

  • Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990--US Census Bureau Working Paper 27.

  • Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit educational organization. Aims "to increase the amount, accuracy, and usefulness of information about population trends and their implications."

  • Population Studies Center, at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Poverty in the United States, from the Census Bureau.

  • Progressive Sociologists Network

  • Public Opinion Poll Question Database, constructed by the Institute for Research in Social Science (IRSS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Allows keyword searches on questions derived from a collection of public opinion polls, dating from the 1960s to the present. Query results display the full text of the poll questions, information about the studies, and, in many searches, frequency distributions. Users also have the option to view the full catalog record and download data from selected studies from the data archive.

  • Resources for Social Researcher's, includes links to publications, data information, research organizations, and more.

  • Scholarly Societies, from the University of Waterloo.

  • Selected Sociology and Demography Resources, from the University of Michigan.

  • Social Research Update, quarterly publication of the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK.

  • Social Sciences Information Gateway

  • Social Sciences Resources

  • Sociological Abstracts (1963 - )
    Available from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (1963 - [abstracts 1974 - ]). Available on-campus. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • Sociological Research Online

  • Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace, general sociological resources, theory, data resources, methods and statistics, and subject-based inquiries.

  • Sociology Department Web Pages

  • Sociology Internet Resources List, from the Department of Social Sciences at Western Connecticut State University.

  • The Sociology Resource Place, maintained by Sue Greer-Pitt, Southeast Community College, Whitesburg, Kentucky.

  • Sociological Resources, from Academic Info.

  • Sociology Resources, from Galaxy.

  • SocioSite--Going Dutch Sociology, provided by Albert Benschop of the Sociological Institute of the University of Amsterdam. Large international meta-site scope and European in flavor, although there are also pointers to non-European sites. Contains annotated pointers to sites in 24 main topic areas from data archives to subject areas.

  • The SocioWeb, a sociological resource center.

  • Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1995, produced for the U.S. Department of Justice by the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center at SUNY-Albany. Searchable and browsable, consisting of 654 tables and 5 figures of mostly national data time series of varying lengths, in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Sections can be downloaded for printing in their entirety or individual tables can be printed. Data are compiled from over 100 sources (annotated with selected links).

  • Southeast Community College Sociology Class Pages Cumberland, KY.

  • The Southern Sociological Society

  • Statistical Resources on the Web, guide to United States, state, and international data. Categories include, agriculture, business and industry, cost of living, demographics, education, energy, health, housing, labor, science, and transportation.

  • Statistical Resources Pertaining to Sociology, from the University of Michigan Documents Center.

  • Statistics Canada

  • Subsidized Households--1997, created by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Provides information on nearly five million subsidized households across the US. "It includes: (1) Totals; (2) Indian Housing; (3) Public Housing; (4) Section 8 Certificates and Vouchers; (5) Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation; (6) Section 8 New and Substantial Rehabilitation; (7) Section 236; (8) Other HUD subsidies; and (9) Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC)." Users can view or download data for particular states or summary data for the entire US.

  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees, includes country-specific information about the refugee situation, back issues of Refugees Magazine, and selected documents from UNHCR's Refworld Database, including full-text background studies on selected countries and refugee statistics. Also includes news briefings, a section on information for teachers, and a photo essay depicting refugee life.

  • Uniform Crime Reports 1990-1993, from the Social Sciences Data Center at the University of Virginia. Searchable dataset from the FBI that allows users to retrieve county level data for arrests (Part I and Part II offenses) and reported crimes (Part I offenses only). Users choose area, time, and crime variables to submit. Data can be retrieved on the screen or as comma-delimited files from an FTP location.

  • United States Population Profile, 1997 (in .pdf format). A Current Population Report Special Study by the Census Bureau.

  • US Population Estimates, from the US Census Bureau, in association with the Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates (FSCPE). Updated population estimates on the national, state, and county level. Updated national estimates are available on a monthly basis, and annual estimates are available for 1990-February 1997 by age group, sex and race. On the state level, estimates have recently been updated through 1996 for demographic components, age groups, and sex, increasing the time series covered to 1990-1996. On the county level, 1990 and 1996 estimates are now available for population, population under and over 65, and demographic components of change. All files are available as ASCII text, with some of the larger ones compressed in .zip format. Documentation and layout of files is available.

  • World Development Report

  • World Population Figures

  • WWW Resources for Sociologists, from Ohio State University.

  • Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky.

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    This page was last updated 5 August 2004. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Larua Whayne at lwhayne@engr.uky.edu.

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