See also the guides to Web sources in:
Social Work;
Psychology;
Education;
Women's
Studies; Criminal Justice;
Polls & Public Opinion
For a Guide to Ely Library Reference Sources in Sociology see Sociology: Reference Sources.
To locate journal articles related to Sociology see Sociology: Databases.
American Sociological Association
http://www.asanet.org/
Useful site for information about sociology as a profession. See especially
the many career materials for current and prospective students on the page
of ASA
Research Index. The site works best with Internet Explorer.
Research Resources for the
Social Sciences
http://www.socsciresearch.com/
Links to hundreds of sites classified in eighteen categories.
Sociological Tour through
Cyberspace
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/
Aimed at undergraduate Sociology students, the "tour" begins with links
to the major subject directories for Sociology, followed by links to: resources
for theory construction; data sets; materials on research methods and statistics;
resources on writing the research paper; and selected sites in related
subject areas.
Sociology
Dictionary
http://www.webref.org/sociology/sociology.htm
Created by Iverson Software Co., this website provides access to brief
definitions of terms frequently used in Sociology.
SocioSite - Social Science Information
System
http://www.sociosite.net/
Based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam,
this site attempts "to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology
resources on the Internet."
Sociology
Timeline
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/timeline.html
Provides a chronology of major events in sociology. Includes
links to more information about leading scholars in the field and their
publications.
SocioWeb
http://www.socioweb.com/
"A Sociological Resource Center" organized into ten sections. Includes
a good section on the "Giants of Sociology".
WWW Virtual Library:
Sociology
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/
Links to many Internet resources, including: Associations & Organizations;
Directories of Resources; Databases & Archives; Courses & Curricula
Resources; Journals & Newsletters; and Theories.
The Future of Children
http://www.futureofchildren.org
"The Future of Children is a publication of The Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings
Institution. [It] seeks to promote effective policies and programs
for children by providing... objective information based on the best available
research." Articles are arranged chronologically by the publication
date of each journal issue. Each publication, however, is dedicated
to a particular topic affecting children and thus may be used to access
journal articles by subject. Also available are figures
and charts from The Future of Children journal articles arranged
by topic.
Monitoring the Future
http://monitoringthefuture.org/
"Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes,
and values of American secondary school students, college students, and
young adults." This website provides access to data on "national
trends in smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use among American secondary
school students."
National Center for Children in Poverty
http://www.nccp.org/
"The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan research and policy organization at Columbia University. [Their]
mission is to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty
in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children
and families." This website provides access to research on policies
relating to Economic Security, Early Care and Learning, Family Stability,
and Demographics. The Data
Wizard assists with identify policies that fulfill state's needs
and calculates the work supports potentially available to families.
National Center for Educational Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
The National Center for Educational Statistics is the "primary federal
entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education
in the United States and other nations." This website provides access
to a searchable catalog of various studies, publications, and statistics
addressing major issues in education.
The Clearinghouse on International
Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies
http://www.childpolicyintl.org/
Columbia University's Clearinghouse "provides cross-national comparative
information about the policies, programs, benefits and services available
in 23 advanced industrialized countries that address child, youth, and
family needs." Information about policies and programs, including
statistics, is available on topics such as parental leave, child &
adolescent health, and child support.
AARP
http://www.aarp.org
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is a nonprofit,
membership organization for people over the age of 50. This website
provides links to AARP newsletters and research.
The Health and Retirement
Study
http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/
"The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) surveys
more than 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 every two years. Supported
by the National Institute on Aging, the study paints an emerging portrait
of an aging America's physical and mental health, insurance coverage, financial
status, family support systems, labor market status, and retirement planning."
National Archive
of Computerized Data on Aging
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACDA/index.jsp
The University of Michigan's National Archive of Computerized Data
on Aging (NACDA) provides data to support research on aging. This
searchable website gives access to various datasets, including polls, census
statistics, and studies conducted by such organizations as the National
Council on Aging.
Social Gerontology
and The Aging Revolution
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/geron.html
Comprehensive site covering gerontological issues. Offers information
and links to almost every issue affecting older people.
Institute
for Policy Research on Poverty, Race and Inequality
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/research/respoverty1.html
A research center based at Northwestern University, this website offers
working papers, newsletters and policy briefs related to poverty.
The IPR website holds information that was previously posted on the Joint
Center for Poverty's site.
Institute for Research on
Poverty
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/
A research center based at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute
for Research on Poverty's (IRP) "principal activities are sponsoship of
original research...on the causes and consequences of poverty and social
inequity in the United States." This website enables access to IRP
research via broad categories such as "Child & Family," "Health &
Poverty," and "Low-wage Earners." Searchable.
National Center for Children in Poverty
http://www.nccp.org/
"The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan research and policy organization at Columbia University. [Their]
mission is to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty
in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children
and families." This website provides access to research on policies
relating to Economic Security, Early Care and Learning, Family Stability,
and Demographics. The Data
Wizard assists with identify policies that fulfill state's needs
and calculates the work supports potentially available to families.
Panel Study on Income
Dynamics
http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/
"A nationally representative longitudinal study of nearly 8,000 U.S.
families...[that collects] data on economic, health and social behavior."
National Archive of Criminal
Justice Data
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/
"The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) preserves and
distributes computerized crime and justice data from Federal agencies,
state agencies, and investigator initiated research projects to users for
secondary statistical analysis."
Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Data Archive
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/
"The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) is an
initiative of...the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The goal of the archive is to provide ready access to substance abuse and
mental health research data."
For more information, consult the Criminal Justice Web Guide.
Institute for Women's Policy Issues
http://www.iwpr.org
The Institute of Women's Policy Issues (IWPR) is a public policy research
organization. This website provides access to research and public
policy in the areas of employment, earnings, democracy, poverty, welfare,
health, and safety, among others. Included is the Status
of Women in the States.
Migration and Ethnic Relations
http://www.ercomer.eu/wwwvl/index.html
A collection of links to major Internet resources in the field of migration
and ethnic relations. It is part of the much larger WWW Virtual Library covering
many subjects. Maintained by the EDCOMER - the European Documentation Centre
and Observatory on Migration and Ethnic Relations.
National Organization for Women
http://www.now.org
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the "largest feminist
activist organization in the United States."
Women's Labor
History
http://www.afscme.org/publications/12441.cfm
For additional resources on women and minorities, see the Women Studies Web Resources and African American History Web Resources.
Gallup Polls
http://www.gallup.com/
Established in 1935 by Dr. George H. Gallup (1901-1984), the Gallup
Organization is best known for its public opinion polls which provide "measurement
and analysis of people's attitudes, opinions, and behavior." This searchable
site provides a full-text poll archive on various topics. Click on Newsflash
for a daily update on politics, business, and social issues in the latest
polls. Press releases from 1998 and tracking polls back to 1936.
For more websites on public opinion, consult Polls & Public Opinion Web Resources.
Resources for Methods
in Evaluation and Social Research
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/
"This page lists free resources for methods in evaluation and social
research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the
methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods.
Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web."
Survey
Methods Newsletter
http://www.natcen.ac.uk/natcen/pages/nm_newsletters.htm#smunews
Published by the National Centre for Social Research, the Survey Methods
Newsletter "focuses on methodological aspects of surveys and evaluation."
Currently, only the most recent issue is available online, but the Centre
intends to post back-issues in the coming months.
Below, you will find links to websites providing access to statistics of general use to sociology researchers, for more specific statistics, see the other sections of this guide.
Current Population Survey
http://www.census.gov/cps/
"The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 50,000
households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor
Statistics...The CPS is the primary source of information on the labor
force characteristics of the U.S. population."
Data on the Net
http://3stages.org/idata
Comprised of a "listing of 361 Internet sites of numeric Social Science
statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways,
addresses and more."
FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
Provides a "gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies."
Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
"maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data
for research and instruction." Data may be search or accessed by
keyword through the database's thesaurus.
Population Index
http://popindex.princeton.edu/
"Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population
literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published
books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population
topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing
46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index
in the period 1986-2000."
Population
Studies
http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/dis/data/datapages.html
The Data Archive and Data Support arm of the Center for Population
Studies at the University of Michigan, provides access to a variety of
population data, geographical and longitudinal population data in the U.S.,
and international data.
Statistical
Resources on the Web -- Sociology
http://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore/browse/statistics+sociology/943/search/
Links to statistics on topics such as adoption, divorce, poverty, religion,
television, etc.
For additional statistics resources, consult the Statistics section of Ely Library's General Reference Web Guide, and Government Documents Websites.
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