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SOCIOLOGY RESOURCES

General Reference | Gateways/Directories | Professional Associations | Statistics | Other Resources

Search all Best of the Web Sociology sites:

General Reference

• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences -- More than 1,000 entries covering the disciplines of sociology, criminology, political science and women's studies.
  
  
• Sociology Dictionary
  
  
• A Sociology Timeline From 1600
  
  
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology

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Gateways/Directories

• Open Directory Project: Social Sciences: Sociology
  Directory of subject-relevant sites that encourages the submission of possible new links by volunteer "editors" in an effort to stay current and comprehensive.
  
  
• Social Science Information Gateway
  Database of more than 50,000 social science Web pages.
  
  
• The Sociolog
  Comprehensive guide to sociology online from University of British Columbia professor Julian Dierkes.
  
  
• SocioSite
  
  
• The SocioWeb
  
  
• Yahoo! Sociology Subject Directory

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Professional Associations

• American Society of Criminology
  
  
• American Sociological Association
  Nonprofit membership organization dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.
  
  
• Eastern Sociological Society
  Association dedicated to promoting excellence in sociological scholarship and instruction.
  
  
• International Sociological Association
  
  
• Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology
  
  
• Southern Sociological Society

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Statistics

• American FactFinder
  Tool for disseminating Census 2000 data and maps. Users can build a query, create maps or view data tables.
  
  
• Gapminder -- data presented visually and dynamically
  
  
• Statistical Resources on the Web: Sociology
  
  
• U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
  Data and reports dealing with criminology and corrections.
  
  
• U.S. Census Bureau
  Ground zero for demographic and statistical information about the United States, including figures from the 2000 census.

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Other Resources

• 6 Sociologists
  Information on six influential sociologists: Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Harriet Martineau, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer and Max Weber.
  
  
• American Communities Project
  
  
• The Anthropological Index Online
  Database on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (Museum of Mankind).
  
  
• Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies
  From the City University of New York.
  
  
• Dead Sociologists' Society
  Comprehensive review of classical sociologists such as Comte, Marx, Weber, Veblen and Spencer.
  
  
• Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources
  
  
• Latin American Network Information Center
  
  
• Online Library of Liberty
  "The aim of the OLL is to provide thousands of titles about individual liberty, limited constitutional government, and the free market, free of charge to the public, for educational purposes."
  
  
• Pew Internet and American Life Project
  Provides reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.
  
  
• Russian and Eastern European Network Information Center
  
  
• Sociology of Religion
  A Hartford Institute for Religion Research site that spotlights the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using sociological tools and methods.
  
  
• Window to Culture
  Searchable database from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
  
  
• Women's Studies Librarian's Office
  Extensive list of subject links provided by the University of Wisconsin.

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This collection is maintained by Beth DeAngelo.