Sociology and Anthropology
A
Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
Organized set of links provides access to WWW resources related to sociology.
[http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/]
Allyn
& Bacon Sociology Links
Organized set of links provides access to WWW resources related to sociology.
[http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/theory.html]
American
Sociological Association
"The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905, is
a non-profit membership association dedicated to advancing sociology as
a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good."
[http://www.asanet.org/]
Anthropology
in the News
Maintained by the Texas A&M Department of Anthropology, this website
consists of “links to news stories published on the web by ABC,
CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Nando, Archaeology,
university press releases and other sources.”
[http://anthropology.tamu.edu/news/]
Anthropological Index Online
The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world. Citations since 1957 are searchable by the language of the article.
[http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/AIO.html]
Anthropology Review Database
An ever-growing, free, and fully searchable database of reviews covering the entire gamut of anthropological publications, including books, audiovisual materials, software & multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and on-line resources. Includes citations for reviews published in American Antiquity from 1990 to 1999.
[http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/]
ARCHway
The archaeology journal holdings of over 20 UK university, museum and
private libraries have been united to create one searchable resource.
[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/ARCHway.html]
Rand Publication Database
The RAND research organization publishes many papers and reports on topics of current public policy interest, including such areas as criminal justice, education, health, national security and international affairs, energy, environment, and science and technology. The RAND Publication Database contains indexing records for all of RAND's publicly available documents. In many cases, the index record links to the full text of the report.
[http://www.rand.org/Abstracts/]
SocioWeb
"The SocioWeb is an independent guide to the sociological resources
available on the Internet and is founded in the belief that the Internet
can help to unite the sociological community in powerful ways." The
site is organized by the following major topic areas: Articles and Essays;
Giants of Sociology; Learning Sociology; Marketplace; Online Journals
and Blogs; Publishers Online Directories; Sociological Associations; Sociological
Theories; Sociology in Action; Sociology Topics (e.g. Criminology, Social
Deviance, Cultural Studies, Demography, etc.); Surveys and Statistics;
and University Departments.
[http://www.socioweb.com/]
WWW
Virtual Library: Sociology
Part of the virtual library project, this is a major linking site to sociological
(and related disciplines) information.
[http://www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/socnet.htm]
Aging:
Administration
on Aging
The United States Administration on Aging provides a clearinghouse that
organizes information on aging according to the needs of those seeking
information: older persons and their families, practitioners and other
professionals, and researchers and students.
[http://www.aoa.gov/]
AgeLine
AgeLine provides abstracts of current social gerontology and aging-related reseach, policy, provider, and consumer books, articles, and reports. AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences. It covers aging-related issues for professionals in aging services, health, business, law, and mental health.
[http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/]
United
States Census Bureau: Age Data
Provides census data of population ages at the county, state, and national
levels. Includes international data and projection estimates.
[http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/age.html]
Children:
Unicef
- Provides links to resources such as statistical tables for measuring
children's well-being. Each annual report has a different theme. See individual
reports listed below:
[http://www.unicef.org/]
United
States Department of Health and Human Services: Administration for Children
and Families
"The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for federal programs
that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children,
individuals, and communities. ACF programs aim to achieve the following:
families and individuals empowered to increase their own economic independence
and productivity; strong, healthy, supportive communities that have a
positive impact on the quality of life and the development of children;
partnerships with individuals, front-line service providers, communities,
American Indian tribes, Native communities, states, and Congress that
enable solutions which transcend traditional agency boundaries; services
planned, reformed, and integrated to improve needed access; and a strong
commitment to working with people with developmental disabilities, refugees,
and migrants to address their needs, strengths, and abilities."
[http://www.acf.hhs.gov/index.html]
Crime and Deviance:
American
Society of Criminology
"The American Society of Criminology is an international organization
concerned with criminology, embracing scholarly, scientific, and professional
knowledge concerning the etiology, prevention, control, and treatment
of crime and delinquency. This includes the measurement and detection
of crime, legislation, the practice of criminal law, as well as a review
of the law enforcement, judicial, and correctional systems."
[http://www.asc41.com/]
Bureau
of Justice Statistics
Data on the U.S. murder rate, drug use, and crime rates, and reports on
such subjects as violence against women, capital punishment, drugs and
crime, guns used in crimes, and prison populations.
[http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/]
National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data
"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. Founded in 1978 as part of the Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the NACJD is supported
by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Institute of
Justice (NIJ) in the U.S. Department of Justice. "
[http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/]
National
Criminal Justice Reference Center
"NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance
abuse information to support research, policy, and program development
worldwide."
[http://www.ncjrs.org/]
Rand
Corporation
RAND's research on civil and criminal justice primarily occurs in RAND's
Public Safety and
Justice research unit and the RAND
Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ). RAND Public Safety and Justice
analyzes issues and policy related to crime and violence in the United
States, and ICJ conducts objective, empirically based, analytic research
to make the civil justice system more efficient and more equitable.
[http://www.rand.org/]
Uniform
Crime Reports
"The UCR Program is a voluntary city, county, state, tribal, and
federal law enforcement program that provides a nationwide view of crime
based on the submission of statistics by law enforcement agencies throughout
the country."
[http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm]
United
Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
Provides statistical data, related to crime, from countries all over the
world.
[http://www.uncjin.org/]
Culture:
American
Studies Crossroads Project
"Crossroads is an international networking and curriculum innovation
project of the American Studies Association with sponsorship from Georgetown
University and in collaboration with Washington State University. The
Crossroads Project is funded in part by the US Dept of Education FIPSE
Program. The Crossroads Project gratefully acknowledges past funding from
the The Annenberg/CPB Project."
[http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/]
Multicultural
Pavilion
"Through the Multicultural Pavilion, I strive to provide resources
for educators, students, and activists to explore and discuss multicultural
education; facilitate opportunities for educators to work toward self-awareness
and development; and provide forums for educators to interact and collaborate
toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education.
The Pavilion was created by Paul Gorski in 1995 with inspiration from
Bob Covert, Charlene Green, Allen Saunders, and other colleagues at the
University of Virgina."
[http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/]
Popular
Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis
"Provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture
in the United States, including the impact of that culture beyond national
borders. Resources include sites on various forms of popular culture including
music, film, television, advertising, sports, fashion, toys, magazines
and comic books, and the medium in which this message moves, cyberculture."
[http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/tvrguide.html]
Education:
National
Center for Education Statistics: Education Statistics at a Glance
Provides "data from several NCES sources including: The Condition
of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, Indicators
of School Crime and Safety, and Projections of Education Statistics."
[http://nces.ed.gov/annuals/]
United
States Department of Education
Provides information surrounding all aspects of education, including statistical
data, current policies, the No Child Left Behind Act, news items,
federal programs, and grants information.
[http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml]
Family and Gender:
Demographic
and Health Survey
Provides statistics on birth control methods, infant mortality rates,
percentage of children immunized, and other reproductive health-related
topics.
[http://www.measuredhs.com/]
Glass
Ceiling: The Findings and Recommendations of the Federal Glass Ceiling
Commission
"The Federal Glass Ceiling Commission was established by Title II
of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. It was a 21-member bipartisan commission
appointed by President Bush and congressional leaders with a legislative
mandate to: conduct a study identifying the barriers that prevent, and
the policies and programs that promote minorities and women upward in
corporate America; present an annual Presidential award to a business
who has made significant efforts to remove obstacles to career growth
and has provided advancement opportunities to women and minorities; and
educate the public on who is effected by and what can be done to remove
glass ceiling barriers. The Commission completed its legislative mandate
in November 1995 under the leadership of Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor,
and was terminated by law."
[http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/glass.html]
Institute
for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)
IWPR is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and
stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance
to women and their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare,
employment and earnings, work and family issues, the economic and social
aspects of health care and domestic violence, and women's civic and political
participation.
[http://www.iwpr.org]
United
States Department of Labor: Women's Bureau
The mission of the Women's Bureau is "to promote the well being of
wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency,
and advance their opportunities for profitable employment."
[http://www.dol.gov/wb/]
Health:
National
Center for Health Statistics
"Welcome to the National Center for Health Statistics' Web site,
a rich source of information about America’s health. As the Nation’s
principal health statistics agency, we compile statistical information
to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people. We
are a unique public resource for health information–-a critical
element of public health and health policy."
[http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm]
United
States Center for Disease Control and Prevention
”CDC seeks to accomplish its mission by working with partners throughout
the nation and the world to monitor health, detect and investigate health
problems, conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate
sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote
healthy behaviors,
foster safe and healthful environments, provide leadership and training.”
[http://www.cdc.gov/]
Population and Demographics:
Office
of Population Research
"The Office of Population Research at Princeton University (OPR)
is a leading demographic research and training center. The office has
a distinguished history of contributions in formal demography and the
study of fertility change. In recent years there has been increasing research
activity in the areas of health and well being, social demography, and
migration and urbanization."
[http://opr.princeton.edu/]
POPLINE
POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE) is a collection of bibliographic citations that provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment. It contains: Journal articles, monographs, technical reports, and unpublished works that are primarily English language items, but international in scope. POPLINE is produced by the Population Information Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and funded primarily by the United States Agency of International Development.
[http://www.popline.org/]
Population
Index on the Web
"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."
[http://popindex.princeton.edu/]
Population
Reference Bureau
"PRB's country pages provide quick access to essential information
on population, health, and the environment for over 200 countries. On
each country page, you will find a fact sheet with demographic, health,
and other development indicators, selected PRB reports or articles, and
links to key sources of information, including the most relevant searchable
databases on international development."
[http://www.prb.org/?Section=Data_by_Country&Template=/customsource/countryprofile/countryprofile.cfm]
Social
Science Data Analysis Network
"The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) is a university-based
organization that creates demographic media, such as user guides, web
sites, and hands-on classroom computer materials that make U.S. census
data accessible to policymakers, educators, the media, and informed citizens.
SSDAN is directed by demographer William H. Frey and utilizes facilities
at the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. SSDAN activities
have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Annie E. Casey
Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement
of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development (NICHD), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Public
Data Queries, Inc., and the U.S. Census Bureau"
[http://www.ssdan.net//]
Statistical
Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
Provides organized and annotated links to WWW resources that provide various
statistical data.
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stpolisc.html]
Race and Ethnicity:
Country Studies (via Library of Congress)
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. The Series examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html]
English
Server: Race and Ethnicity
Consists of reference material, essays, and other works addressing
issues of race and ethnicity in the United States.
[http://eserver.org/race/]
Sociology
of Race and Ethnicity
Provides an organized set of links to various WWW resources related to
the study of race and ethnicity.
[http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/race.html]
Religion:
American
Religion Data Archive
"The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project funded by
the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve quantitative data on American
religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data,
and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes
data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious
groups (individuals, congregations and denominations). "
[http://www.thearda.com/]
Sociology
of Religion
"Sociology of Religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and
organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline
of sociology. This objective investigation may include the use of both
quantitative methods (surveys, polls, demographic and census analysis)
and qualitative approaches such as participant observation, interviewing,
and analysis of archival, historical and documentary materials."
[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/sociology/sociology.html]
Weberian
Sociology of Religion
"This is the main project of Weberian Sociology of Religion Homepage.
The goal is to make Weber's texts available all over the world. Some of
them are a HTML edition of a printed text, and some of them are entirely
revised edition by Moriyuki Abukuma."
[http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/]
Research:
Formatting
in Sociology
This resource presents a selection of information from the ASA (American
Sociological Association) Style Guide. A copy of of the style guided
is available in the Library at the Reference Desk - Ready Ref HM586 .A54
1997). This update includes information concerning resources in electronic
format.
[http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/583/01/]
Social Stratification:
An
Overview of Social Inequality
Provides an introduction to social inequality and an organized set of
links to related WWW resources.
[http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/strat.html]
Sociological Theory and Theorists:
Dead
Sociologists' Society
Provides links to WWW resources providing biographical and full text documents
related to their theories.
[http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/DEADGALL.HTML]
Karl
Marx
Provides biographical information and full text documents related to his
theories.
[http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/marx.htm]
Marx
and Engels Internet Archive
Provides biographical information and full text documents related to their
theories.
[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/index.htm]
Max
Weber's HomePage
Provides biographical information and full text documents related to his
theories.
[http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm]
SocioSite:
Famous Sociologists
Provides links to WWW resources providing full text documents related
to their theories.
[http://www.sociosite.net/topics/sociologists.php]
SocioWeb:
Giants of Sociology
Provides links to WWW resources providing biographical and full text documents
related to their theories.
[http://www.socioweb.com/directory/giants-of-sociology/]
WWW
Virtual Library: Sociology, Sociological Theory and Theorists
Provides an organized set of links to WWW resources related to sociological
theorists.
[http://www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/theories.htm]
Work:
Cornell
University: Employment Discrimination: An Overview
"Employment Discrimination laws seek to prevent discrimination based
on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical disability, and age
by employers. There is also a growing body of law preventing or occasionally
justifying employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. Discriminatory
practices include bias in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination,
compensation, and various types of harassment. The main body of employment
discrimination laws is composed of federal and state statutes. The United
States Constitution and some state constitutions provide additional protection
where the employer is a governmental body or the government has taken
significant steps to foster the discriminatory practice of the employer."
[http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Employment_discrimination]
Origins
of Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action is a "set of public policies and initiatives designed
to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color,
religion, sex, or national origin."
[http://www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html]
SOSIG:
Sociology of Work
Provides links to WWW resources that are related to the study of the sociology
of work.
[http://www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html]