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Sociology
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Directories & Gateways
dmoz
- Open Directory - Sociology
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Sociology/
Extensive directory with links to sites concerned with all areas
of the social sciences.
Social
Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/sociology/
This is a huge portal with links to sites covering all areas of
the field of Sociology. The Social Science Information Gateway "aims
to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information
for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business
and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network."
SocioSite
http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/
A huge collection of sociological sites, organized by subject matter.
SocioWeb
http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/
A commercial site featuring links to indexes, grants, journals,
surveys and writings on the Web.
Sociological
Tour through Cyberspace
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/
Created by Dr. Michael C. Kearl, Professor & Chair at Trinity
University this site is aimed at undergraduate Sociology students.
It features a somewhat psychadelic "tour" of the major
subject directories for Sociology, followed by links to data sets,
and sites featuring statistical and theoretical material. Not the
easiest site to look at, but the information is worth looking at.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Cultural Studies
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2709
This University of California site investigates "the intersection
between cultural criticism/theory and selective resources in sociology,
media studies, postcolonial studies, economics, literature, and
other fields chosen to represent the alignments that now signify
"culture" for the contemporary humanities."
Voice
of the Shuttle: Politics and Government
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2726
Links to political theory and government studies sites provided
by the University of California.
WCSU
List: Sociology Internet Sources
http://vax.wcsu.edu/socialsci/socres.html
Links to a wealth of sites featuring culture, society, family, criminal
studies, and social research resources. This site is maintained
by Western Connecticut State University's Department of Social Sciences.
WWW
Virtual Library: Sociology - SOCNET: Courses and Curricular Resources
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/
The World Wide Web Consortium is a leading provider of information
on the web. The many subject areas represented are hosted by universities
and colleges world-wide. (The Sociology page is managed by McMaster
University.) Peritinent links to resources including institutions,
associations, research centers, major theorists and more.
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Databases & Indexes
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General Databases
The Congressional Research Service (CRS)
http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/searchform.tkl
The Congressional Research Service is where Members of Congress
turn for the nonpartisan research, analysis, and information they
need to make informed decisions on behalf of the American people.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) does not provide direct
public access to its reports, requiring citizens to request them
from their Member of Congress. However, some Members of Congress,
as well as several non-profit groups, have posted the reports on
their Web sites. This site provides integrated, searchable and browseable
access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available
at a variety of different Web sites since 1990.
a.. Searchable fields include title, author, subject, and full-text.
b.. Boolean searching is supported.
c.. Browsing is by broad subject area, e.g. Air Pollution, Drug
Abuse, Environmental Protection, etc.
Maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries.
TheDataWeb
http://www.thedataweb.org/
"TheDataWeb is network of online data libraries. Topics include,
census data, economic data, health data, income and unemployment
data, population data, labor data, cancer data, crime and transportation
data, family dynamics, vital statistics data" - A Collaboration
between the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control
Diversity
Database
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/
"This database contains campus, local, national, and international
academic material relating to the following areas of diversity as
defined by the Office of Human Relations Programs at the University
of Maryland: age, class, disability, ethnicity, gender, national
origin, race, religion & sexual orientation."
Health
Poll Search
http://www.kaisernetwork.org
Health Poll Search is "a searchable archive of public opinion
questions on health issues that allows users to know what Americans
think about health issues, as well as what Americans have thought
about health issues over time...an archive of more than 350,000
public opinion questions dating back to 1935. Response percentages
and source information are provided for all questions." The
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut.
Murray Research
Center
http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/index.html
"This Radcliffe college site provides " the nation's largest
social science data archive on human development across the life
span." Included are over 200 nationwide sociological surveys
and studies with accompanying data set abstracts. The database is
searchable by subject area and by category. Note that requests for
the actual data require registration and application.
National Election
http://www.electionstudies.org
"High quality data on voting, public opinion, and political
participation that serve the research needs of social scientists,
teachers, students, policy makers and journalists concerned with
the theoretical and empirical foundations of mass politics in a
democratic society."
National Political Index
http://www.politicalindex.com/
"An index of substantive political information for voters,
political activists, political consultants, lobbyists, politicians,
academicians, and media editors with a wide range of products and
services in an interactive communications environment. "
Population Index
http://oprtest.princeton.edu/popindex/
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.
PovertyNet-Data
on Poverty page
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/index.htm
This World Bank Group's site page provides information on indicators
for and measurement of poverty, health indicators, trends in poverty,
country statistics and links to other database resources such as
GernderStats.
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.
Social
Security Death Index
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm
The social security death index brought to you through theAncestry.com
database.
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov/
Online statistical and data information on labor in the United States.
" The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that
collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical
data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies,
State and local governments, business, and labor. "
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Government Sitesddit
Critical Sites
The Campaign Desk
http://campaigndesk.org/
Critique and analysis of 2004 campaign coverage
from Columbia Journalism Review
FactCheck
http://www.factcheck.org/
"The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg
Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. It is a
"consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the
level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. It monitors the
factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players
in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.
Government SitesddGo
Bureau of Economic
Analyses
http://www.bea.doc.gov/
"BEA produces economic accounts statistics that enable government
and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public
to follow and understand the performance of the Nation's economy"
This site provides national and regional information.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/
The principal fact-finding agency for the Federal government in
the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS serves
as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor and collects,
processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data
to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies,
State and local governments, business, and labor.
Catalog
of Federal Assistance
http://12.46.245.173/servlet/page?_pageid=316&_dad=portal
This site gives you database access to federal programs that are
available to State and local governments.
Catalog
of US Document Publications
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications provides an index to
print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies. When
available, links are provided to the full-text of these publications.
Center for Disease Control
and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/
Up to date information on health in the Nation including statistical
data is provided here.
Citing
Government Documents
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html
Scroll down this page to view examples of citations for numerous
government documents. This site is provided by the University of
Memphis.
FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
"The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies."
National
Rural Development Partnerships
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/nrdp/
"The National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP) is a multi-faceted
organization bringing together partners from all levels of government
as well as private for profit and non-profit organizations to address
the needs of rural America."
United States Bureau
of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov/
Online statistical and data information on labor in the United States.
" The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that
collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical
data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies,
State and local governments, business, and labor. "
United States Census
http://www.census.gov/
Gateway to the 2000 Census, EEO tabulations, estimates, profiles,
projections, economic census, ER-Stats, maps and more. Go to Census
Page for more links.
United States Department
of Health And Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/
Organized by such topics as safety and wellness, diseases, families
and children, disasters and emergencies and aging. Includes links
to the Administration for Children
and Families, and the 2002
Poverty Guidelines.
United States General
Accounting Office
http://www.gao.gov/
The GAO is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress.
GAO exists to support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional
responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure
the accountability of the federal government for the American people.
GAO examines the use of public funds, evaluates federal programs
and activities, and provides analyses, options, recommendations,
and other assistance to help the Congress make effective oversight,
policy, and funding decisions. "
United
States Government Manual
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html
"As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United
States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the
agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It
also includes information on quasi-official agencies, international
organizations in which the United States participates, and boards,
commissions, and committees. " You can do a quick search of
the current edition, and can read earlier editions online. Click
here for the Code
of Federal Regulations.
United
States Immigratration and Naturalization Services
http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm
US
National Labor Relations Board
http://www.nlrb.gov/
The agency responsible for representation elections and investigation
of unfair labor practices. Includes full text of the NLRB's decisions
and regulations, as well as a manual of procedures and compliance.
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Historical Data
Age
of Industry
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html
Comprehensive website links to online resources for the Industrial
Revolution.
American Memory Project
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
A wealth of original texts in electronic format, photographic and
archival images, bibliographic data and links covering all areas
of American history and culture.
American Originals: The Original
Exhibit
http://www.archives.gov/
Selection of some of the most significant and compelling documents
from the National Archives holdings. These include the full text
of the Louisiana Purchase agreements, a police report on the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln, the 1868 treaty with the Sioux Indians recognizing
the Black Hills of Dakota as part of the Great Sioux Reservation,
reportage of the collision of the Titanic with an iceberg, President
Franklin Roosevelt's declaration of war against Japan, and President
Nixon's letter of resignation."
American
Social Movements & Culture: A Resource Site
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/smc/smcframe.html
"This site provides a space for the study of social movements
in the U.S., including those movements as linked to transnational
and global movements" The topics covered include: abolition,
AIDS, anarchism, anti-slavery, civil rights, gay rights, globalization,
media activisim and womens rights.
American
Women's History: A Research Guide
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
"American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet
reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections.
The guide also provides information about the tools researchers
can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary
sources."
A trip
to the past
http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html
This site describes some of the advances in machinery, art, medicine,
transportation, and industry that occurred during this time.
Between
A Rock and A Hard Place
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/index.htm
This remarkable exhibition places the current debate on sweatshops
in the garment industry in a historical context and explores the
complex factors that contribute to their existence today.
Born in
Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery
and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. (more information)
Ed
Stephan's A Sociology Timeline from 1600
http://vax.wcsu.edu/socialsci/socres.html
Industrial
Revolution
This is part of Fordham University's excellent Internet Modern History
Sourcebook which includes primary documents and information.
Industrial
Revolution & the Railway System
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/index
Primary sources on the Industrial Revolution and its impact in Britain,
including the Illustrated London News.
International Institute
of Social History
http://www.iisg.nl/
One of the world's largest documentary and research institutions
in the field of social history in general and the history of the
labour movement in particular. While the site emphasis Dutch history,
it also provides information on social history in other european
countries.
Irish in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/irish/
PBS site on the Irish in America, featuring resources on the history
and music of Irish Americans, biographical information and a an
article on geneaology.
Key Sites
of African American History
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/sites.htm
A gateway on the topic, providing numersous links to online resources
and created by the United States Information Agency.
Lowell
National Historic Park
http://www.nps.gov/lowe/2002/loweweb/
An exceptional site leading to information on early manufacturing
and the industrial revolution in New England mill towns, focusing
on Lowell, MA.
Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
An incredible resource too providing a full digital library of primary
sources in American social history. These are comprised of over
8,500 full text books, and 50,000 periodical and journal articles.
Read the directions on how to use first.. "The collection is
particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology,
American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."
Nineteenth
Century Documents
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
A collection of nineteenth century United States primary source
material, including documents, editorials, speeches, and articles.
Sections include: Early National Politics; Slavery and Sectionalism;
Nebraska Bill; Sumner's Caning; Dred Scott Decision; John Brown
and Harper's Ferry; 1860 election; Secession and War; and Post Civil
War. Searchable texts. From Furman University.
Rise
of Industrial America
http://memory.loc.gov/
This Library of Congress sponsored and maintained site provides
basic information abour the industrial revolution and links to the
American Memory Page.
Statue of Liberty
- Ellis Island Foundation
http://www.ellisisland.org/
Searchable database for identifying most individuals who entered
into the U.S. through Ellis Island.
Time
line for the history of science and social science
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/sshtim.htm
Site maintained at Middlesex University.
US
Labor History
http://www.geocities.com/m_lause.geo/AmLabHist/VL.html
United States
Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The data here describe the people and the economy of the US for
each state and county between 1790 to 1960. and is provided by the
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR),
in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Victorian Web
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/
An Encyclopedia of the era, created by George Landows and funded
by the University Scholars Program
Victorian
Web
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html
Many links to international sites. This web page is maintained by
Mitsuharu Matsuoka Associate Professor at Nagoya University.
Women and Social Movements
in the United States
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Currently organized around a collection of over 700 primary documents
related to women and social movements in the United States between
1775 and 1940, this is a growing website. Sponsored by the Center
for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University
of New York at Binghamton
World History Archives
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/
A collection of documents for teaching and learning about world
history from a working class perspective and non-Eurocentric perspecitve.
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Journals
Click
here for News Page
Current
Research in Social Psychology: An Electronic Journal
http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp.html
"Current Research in Social Psychology (CRISP) is a peer reviewed,
electronic journal covering all aspects of social psychology. Publication
is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the
University of Iowa which provides free access to its contents"
CyberSociology
E-Journal
http://www.cybersociology.com/
Cybersociology Magazine is a forum for the discussion of the social
scientific study of cyberspace.
Demographic
Research
http://www.demographic-research.org/
"A a free, expedited, peer-reviewed journal of the population
sciences" published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic
Research.
Journal
E: 50 cents
http://www.musarium.com/interviews50cents/
Producer Ray Farkas and reporter Alex Chadwick (sometime NPR correspondent)
had a simple idea: they traveled around the country with a card
table, a couple of chairs, and a sign that read "Interviews
50 Cents" The result is this collection of interviews."
Journal
of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html
An interdisciplinary journal for exploration and understanding of
social processes by means of computer simulation. Site is housed
by the University of Surrey.
Journal
of Mundane Behavior
http://mundanebehavior.org/index.htm
"...hosted by the Department of Sociology and the College of
Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton,
is a new scholarly journal devoted to the study of the "unmarked"
-- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed
by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals."
Journal of
World-Systems Research
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php
A publication sponsored by the Center for the Studey of World Systems
at the University of California, Riverside and the Center for Global,
International and Regional Studies, Division of Social Sciences,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
PostModern
Culture
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html
"Founded in 1990 as an experiment in scholarly publishing on
the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become the leading electronic
journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures..
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press with support from the
University of Virginia and from Vassar College."
Sociological
Research Online
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/
A British publicaction, "Sociological Research Online publishes
high quality applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical
and methodological discussions which engage with current political,
cultural and intellectual topics and debates."
Theory
& Science
http://theoryandscience.icaap.org/
"An Interdisciplinary, Peer-Reviewed Journal Devoted to the
Discussion of Theory, Science, and Social Change."
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Papers and Reports
Black
Neighbors, Higher Crime?: The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations
of Neighborhood Crime
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/2000-03.pdf
Changing
America
http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/ca/index.html
Prepared by the Council of Economic Advisors, this chart book"
documents current differences in well-being by race and Hispanic
origin and describes how such differences have evolved over the
past several decades."
Drug
Wars
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/
A special PBS Frontline series in collaboration with NPR [National
Public Radio] covering both sides of America's 30-year war on drugs.
Includes text and video clips.
Economic
Sociology Editorial Series
http://www.gsm.uci.edu/econsoc/ResourceFrames.htm
Recent editorials by scholars in the field.
Evaluating
Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition
http://bob.nap.edu/books/0309072743/html/
How
Long Do African Americans Stay In High Poverty Neighborhoods?
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/pubs/dp120300.pdf
How
the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
Complete hypertext version of this 1890 work.
Moving
People from Welfare to Work
Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
http://www.mdrc.org/publications/52/summary.html
Study conducted by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families and the U.S. Department
of Education.
The
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Bureaucracy:
the Role of Religious Asceticism in the Genesis of Political Rationalism
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/groups/ccsa/gorski.PDF
Studies
of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues (2001)
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309076234/html/
Report
to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/new/gamble.htm
Welfare
Time Limits : State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families
http://www.mdrc.org/publications/51/overview.html
"Time limits first emerged at the state level and subsequently
became a central feature of federal welfare policy in the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA),
which imposed a 60-month time limit on federally funded assistance
for most families. This study, authorized by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services reviews of what is known about time
limits. The project includs a survey of state welfare agencies,
site visits to examine the implementation of time limits, and a
review of research on time limits."
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Public Policy
Council
of State Governments
http://www.csg.org/csg/default
CSG's national and regional offices provide research analysis on
all areas of interest to state governments including Policy Expertise
including rural policy, health, education, environment, public safety,
justice and fiscal state trends.
Criminal
Justice Links
http://berkshirecc.edu/library/sciences_criminal.html
Link to BCC's Library page featuring websites of interest in the
field of criminal justice.
Department
of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/
"The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible
for major activities in the areas of policy coordination, legislation
development, strategic planning, policy research and evaluation,
and
economic analysis."
Federation
for American Immigration Reform
http://www.fairus.org/
This immigration reform organization seeks to improve border security,
to stop illegal immigration, and to promote immigration levels consistent
with the national interest—more traditional rates of about
300,000 a year."
FindLaw
Law Crawler
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
Massive, searchable site of information covering all areas of law,
including cases and codes, for administrative, anti-trust, bankruptcy,
commercial and employment law.
Justice
Information Center
http://www.ncjrs.org/
Links to Web sites and full-text documents of statistical data and
scholarly research published by the National Criminal Justice Reference
Service
John
F. Kennedy School of Government
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/
Important academic program and links including these: Case
Studies, Research
Reports, working
papers, Ash
Institute, Belfer Center,
Carr Center, Center
for Business and Government, Center
for Public Leadership, Joint
Center for Housing Studies, Shorenstein
Center, Taubman
Center,and the Wiener
Center.
LawsOnLine
http://www.lawsonline.com/
This extensive site provides links to Fedelaw services.rl and State
Resources as well as law services.
Moving
Ideas
http://movingideas.org/
The leading source for public policy ideas on the internet, this
site includes articles and a seach engine that can browse by subject
or by organizaiton.
National
Housing Institute
http://www.nhi.org/
"The National Housing Institute is a 28-year old independent
nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis
in housing and community in America. NHI examines the key issues
affecting affordable housing and community development practitioners
and their supporters."
National
Urban League
http://www.nul.org/|
"The Urban League is the nation’s oldest and largest community-based
movement empowering African Americans to enter the economic and
social mainstream."
Policy
Challenges for Presidential Candidates
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/elections/index.htm
Key foreign and domestic policy questions for the presidential contenders
devised by Human Rights Watch.
Public
Policy Matrix
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polproc.html
While you won't be able to use some of the University of Michigan
only links provided here, the Matrix will be very useful in helping
you determine what type of resource you should useto fulfill your
information needs. Many of the links can be used also.
Rural
Community Assistance Corportation
http://www.rcac.org/
"RCAC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting rural
communities achieve their goals and visions by providing training,
technical assistance and access to resources. Most RCAC services
are available to communities with populations fewer than 50,000
and for the benefit of low-income people.
University
of Massachusetts Center For Policy Analysis Links
http://www.umassd.edu/cfpa/resources.html
Useful and current links to sites with an emphasis on local, Massachusetts
resources.
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Theorists and Theories
Dead
Sociologists' Society
http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/DEADSOC.HTML
This site, out of Pfeiffer University, provides "a list
of the various theorists, some biographical information, and a summary
of their work."
The
Durkheim Pages
http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim//
Biographical information, detailed summaries, abstracts and brief
reviews prepared and maintained by Robert Alun Jones, Professor
of Religious Studies, History and Sociology at the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Famous
Sociologists
http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/sociologists.html
An A to Z list (Adorno to Max Weber and F. W. Znaniecki) with accompanying
links to biographical and critical information about each theorist.
This site is maintained by Dr. Albert Benschop, Department of Social
& Behavioral Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.
Freire Institute
http://www.paulofreire.org
Official site for this impor
Mead
Project: Foundational documents in Sociological Social Psychology
http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/%7Elward/
Information on Mead, Dewey, James, Baldwin, Cooley and Veblen. Supported
by Brock University, in Canada.
Marx and Engels
- Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/
More than Marx and Engels, this site features just about every social
theorists with a Marxist bent, from Adorno, Barthes and Foucault,
to Popper and Sinclair, and a few who might be surprised to find
themselves on this list. (Descartes.)
Norbert
Elias and Process Sociology
http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/social/elias.html
"This site identifies and provides internet resources for all
social scientists working with the ideas of Norbert Elias and process
sociology."
Semiotics
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/semiotics.html
Good general site from the University of Colorado, providing information
on theorists and their work.
Sociology
of Knowledge
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_knowledge.html
Martin Ryder from the University of Colorado at Denver's School
of Education put together this site featuring information on the
works of Durkheim, Foucault, Habermas, Lukacs, Marcuse, Pareto,
Weber, the Frankfurt School, Kuhn, Lyotard, Levi-Stauss, Mannheim,
Young and many more.
Sociological
Theorists
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/theories.htm
Multiple links to pages on Bourdieu, Durkheim, Elias, Freire, Goffman,
Gramsci, Marx, Mead, Nietzche, Parson and Weber.
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Think Tanks & Research Centers
American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)
http://www.aei.org/
Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)
http://brie.berkeley.edu/~briewww/
Founded at Berkeley, BRIE is an interdisciplinary research project
that focuses on the interactions of international economic competition
and the development and application of advanced technologies.
Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu/
Founded as a non-partisan, private research institute in 1916, the
Brookings Institute continues to be a major contributer to public
policy discource in the United States. The following Brookings Institution
divisions can be reached directly here: Center
on Economic Studies, Center
on Social and Economic Dynamics, Center
on Urban Metropolitan Policy, and Governance
Studies.
The
Carter Center
http://www.cartercenter.org/default.asp?bFlash=True
"The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is
guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation
of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance
freedom and democracy, and improve health. "
Center
For Comparative Social Analysis
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/groups/ccsa/
A multidisciplinary center located in the Department of Sociology
at UCLA providing full text of papers written on recent studies
conducted by the Center.
Center for National
Policy
http://www.cnponline.org/
"Over the last two decades, CNP has contributed to policy debates
on key issues of U.S. national interest, focusing activities in
four program areas: economic analysis, equal opportunity, community
studies and foreign policy. "
Center for Public
Policy and Contemporary Issues-Institute for Public Policy Studies,
University of Denver
http://www.du.edu/ipps/
"Founded in 1987, the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary
Issues embodies the University of Denver's commitment to the study
and discussion of new ideas about American society's most critical
issues"
Committee for Economic
Development
http://www.ced.org/
"Our leadership is committed to having impact on the issues
that affect the daily lives of Americans. Together, we are dedicated
to ensuring our work remains focused, impartial and of the highest
quality."
Disaster Research
Center
http://www.udel.edu/DRC/
"The Disaster Research Center, the first social science research
center in the world devoted to the study of disasters, was established
at Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to the University of
Delaware in 1985. The Center conducts field and survey research
on group, organizational and community preparation for, response
to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other
community-wide crises."
Earth Policy
Institute
http://www.earth-policy.org/
"The purpose of the institute is to provide a vision of what
an environmentally sustainable economy will look like, a roadmap
of how to get from here to there and an ongoing assessment of this
effort-where progress is being made and where it is not."
Economic Growth
Center
http://aida.wss.yale.edu/~egcenter/
The Economic Growth Center "has had the objective of studying
and promoting understanding of the economic development process
within low-income countries and how development is affected by trade
and financial relations between these countries and those that developed
earlier. "
Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/
Website for the EPI which is "a nonprofit, nonpartisan think
tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to
achieve a prosperous and fair economy". Includes links to full
text (PDF) articlea on the economy, on labor and labor relations,
unions, globalization and more. Includes articles and interviews,
such as a recent audio interview of Kevin Phillips discussing his
book, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American
Rich.
Focus Project/OMB
Watch
http://www.ombwatch.org/
"OMB Watch was formed to lift the veil of secrecy shrouding
the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which oversees
regulation, the budget, information collection and dissemination,
proposed legislation, testimony by agencies and much more. OMB's
actions have an enormous impact on agency operations and the pursuit
of social justice."
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 and up-to-the minute data on a multitude
of subjects.
The Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/
One of the more influential conservative think tanks. "ounded
in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute
- a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative
public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited
government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and
a strong national defense."
Hoover Insitute
http://www.hoover.org/
"The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford
University, is a public policy research center devoted to advanced
study of politics, economics, and political economy—both domestic
and foreign—as well as international affairs."
Hudson Institute
http://www.hudson.org/
"The institute's mission is to be America's premier source
of applied research on enduring public policy challenges. Hudson
works to counsel and guide policy change, applying its ideas whenever
possible
alongside other leaders in communities, businesses, nonprofit organizations
and governments."
Institute for
Research on Poverty
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
"The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a university-based
center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty
and social inequality in the United States. It is nonprofit and
nonpartisan".
Institute for Women's
Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/
This site provides recent research reports women and the economy,
the government, work and family and society. Includes a welfare
monitoring listserve.
Migration
and Ethnic Relations
http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/
A collection of links to major Internet resources in the field of
migration and ethnic relations. Maintained by the EDCOMER - the
European Documentation Centre and Observatory on Migration and Ethnic
Relations.
Milliken
Institute
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/index.taf
The Milliken Institute "is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research
organization led by experts in capital markets, regional economics
and global finance." It is concerned with studying human capital
and job creation, financial innovation, and accelerating medical
research and solutions.
National Bureau of
Economic Research
http://www.nber.org/
"The NBER is the nation's leading nonprofit economic research
organization...The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating
unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals,
and the academic community. "
National Center for
Children in Poverty
http://www.nccp.org/
This website for a nonpartisan research and policy organization
at Columbia University provides abstracts and full text of recent
research on poverty and children, covering such topics as public
policy, economics and education.
National Center for
Policy Analysis (NCPA)
http://www.ncpa.org/
"The NCPA's goal is to develop and promote private alternatives
to
government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on
the
strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. Topics
include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare,
criminal
justice, education and environmental regulation. "
The Nelson A. Rockefeller
Institute of Government
http://www.rockinst.org/
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Insitutue of Government is "the public
policy research arm of the State University of New York. The Institute
conducts research on the role of state and local governments in
American federalism and on the management and finances of states
and localities. "
New American
Foundation
http://www.newamerica.net/
"The purpose of the New America Foundation is to bring exceptionally
promising new voices and new ideas to the fore of our nation's public
discourse. Relying on a venture capital approach, the Foundation
invests in outstanding individuals and policy ideas that transcend
the conventional political spectrum." The New American Foundation's
James Pinkerton and Noah Feldman have recently written on the real
state of the Union in the January-February 2004 issue of
the The Atlantic.
NIRA
Guide To Think Tanks
http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/nwdtt/index.html
Organized by country. Scroll down to the country listing at
the bottom of the page. A very complete list, although some of the
URL's are data entered into the list incorrectly. (Check spacings)
NORC: National
Organization for Research at the University of Chicago
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/
"Established in 1941, NORC was unique among survey research
organizations. Instead of collecting, analyzing, and reporting commercially
motivated opinion polling data—the typical national survey
practice at that time—NORC’s mission was to pursue objective
research that served a broadly conceived public interest. NORC’s
early survey work provided the first rigorous empirical standard
against which to calibrate the beliefs of policy makers claiming
to represent and respond to “the people’s will” on
vital issues of the day. "
Northeast Midwest Institute
http://www.nemw.org/
"he Northeast-Midwest
Institute is a Washington-based, private, non-profit, and non-partisan
research organization dedicated to economic vitality, environmental
quality, and regional equity for Northeast and Midwest states"
Population Reference
Bureau
http://www.prb.org/
Online site for PRB, which for seventy years has been "informing
people about the population dimensions of important social, economic,
and political issues." This organization strives to provide
timely and objective information on U.S. and international population
trends and issues. Recent reports include, Facing Child Poverty
in Rural America and the Poor-Rich Divide.
Public Agenda
Online
http://www.publicagenda.org/
A non-partisan opinion research organization founded by Social Scientist,
Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance.
Rand Corporation
http://www.rand.org/index.html
" RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve public
policy through research and analysis." Core research areas
include defense and homland security, international affairs, children
and adolescents, civil justice, education, energy, the environment,
health care, population and aging, substance abuse and transportation.
Russell Sage
Foundation
http://www.russellsage.org/
"THE RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION is the principal American foundation
devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. " Current
scholarship at the Foundation includes a study on immigration and
adaptation focusing on second generation American society.
Social Science Research
Foundation
http://www.ssrc.org/
"The Social Science Research Council brings necessary knowledge
to public issues. Among its key interests are: HIV/AIDS as a global
challenge, children and armed conflict, economic growth, development
and inequality,global security and cooperation, international migration
cemocracy and the public sphere."
Urban Institute: a
nonpartisan economic and social policy research institute.
http://www.urban.org/
"The institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's
problems and efforts to solve them, to improve government decisions
and their implementation, and to increase citizens' awareness about
important
public choices."
Vanderbilt
Institute for Public Policy Studies
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/VIPPS/
Vanderbilt University's "think tank" addresses "laws,
regulations, programs, and services, and focusses on such "real
world" problems and issues as health care, education, social
services, environment,
mental health, and economic development."
World Development
Reports
http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/
"The World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) is
an invaluable guide to the economic, social and environmental state
of the world today. Each year the WDR provides in depth analysis
of a specific aspect of development. "
World Policy
Institute
http://www.worldpolicy.org/
"The World Policy Institute, located at the New School, is
a public policy center engaged in research and public education
on critical world problems in America and internationally. "
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Statistics
American
FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
Statistical information from the United States cenus, including
data on housing, business and government. Easy to access datasets
and maps are provided. This site is updated frequently.
Bureau of
Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Provided by the United States Department of Justice, this site offers
statistics on crime and victims, including victim and incident-based
statistics; courts and sentencing, and many other topics.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/
Provided by the United States Department of Labor, this site offers
informatiion on inflation and consumer spending; wages, earnings
and benefits; employment and unemployment; occupations and other
statistical data by state and by region.
ChildStats
http://childstats.gov/
"This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics
and reports on children and their families, including: population
and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior
and social environment,and education."
Demographic
and Health Surveys STATcompiler (DHS)
http://www.measuredhs.com/start.cfm?
Select numerous countries and hundreds of indicators to create customized
tables. Registration is free to access datasets.
FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
"The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies."
National Center for
Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
The NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing
data that are related to education in the United States and other
countries.
National
Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm
This is the site of the Nation’s principal resource for health
statistics.
Social
Science StatsLab
http://statlab.stat.yale.edu/index.jsp
"The StatLab serves as a statistical information center for
research and quantitative analysis providing in-depth consulting
for statistical software, quantitative methods, Social Science data
resources, geospatial resources and analysis, and technical developments
relevant to Social Science computing."
Statistical
Abstracts
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Selected sections of this United States census publication.
Statistical
Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsoc.html/
Links to a myriad of statistical materials on on topics such as
adoption, divorce, poverty, religion, television, etc... maintained
by the University of Michigan.
WHO
Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm
"The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health
and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available
from the World Health Organization. "
Unicef
Statistical Data
http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index.html
"Economic and social statistics on the countries and territories
of the world, with particular reference to children’s well-being."
UN Statistics:
Common Database
http://psc.isr.umich.edu/library/
This database provides information on social and economic indicators
for most countries of the world, in such areas as agriculture, economics,
education, energy, environment, health, labor, and population.
SSDC
Data Collection
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/catalog.html
Social Science Data collected and updated by the University of California,
San Diego.
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