Sociology Resources

General Resources | Criminal Justice | Family Issues | Gender & Sexuality | Medicine | Population | Race & Ethnicity | Religion | Social Research | Anthropology

General Resources

American Sociological Association
Provides information about and links to ASA meetings, employment, publicly available data, and funding and research opportunities.

Public Agenda Online
Has 18 guides to contemporary issues including crime, family, gambling, race, and welfare with a section in each entitled "Sources and Resources" with descriptions given by each organization of its purpose.

Sociosite
This Amsterdam site includes links to online journals and courses.

SocioWeb
Internet resource center for sociologists, includes links to university departments and hot resources.

Timeline of Sociology
This timeline compiled by Ed Stephan, a professor emeritus in sociology at Western Washington University, features a listing of significant events in the discipline of sociology from 1600 to 1995 plus a calendar that lists the births and deaths of the philosophers and sociologists featured in the timeline.

Voice of the Shuttle
A huge directory of websites including gender and minority studies.

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
A directory listing centers for research, discussion groups, electronic journals, organizations, and resources of interest to sociologists. International in scope.

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Criminal Justice

ACLU Criminal Justice
Focuses on civil rights, police brutality, and the treatment of prisoners.

Center for Restorative Justice & Mediation
This Center at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work provides technical assistance, resources, and training in order to empower victims in their search for closure,  impress upon offenders the harm which they have caused, and promote restitution to victims and the community.

Criminal Justice Links
Links to a wide variety of criminal justice sites including those covering crime and crime prevention, federal criminal justice agencies, juvenile delinquency, police agencies and prisons.

Gendercide Watch
This Canadian site seeks to confront acts of gender-selective mass killing around the world.  This site includes a constantly growing data-base of case-studies and other research materials.

Gun Laws, Gun Control, & Gun Rights
This site from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law has links to gun-related court cases, legislation, books, articles, statistics, advocacy groups, governmental agencies, media reports and the views of Presidential candidates and legal scholars.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Provides links to major topics including criminal justice statistics, drugs and crime, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims. Also provides free access to the NCJRS Abstracts Database.

National Youth Gang Center
Provides statistics, programs and legislation regarding gangs and gang activity.

Uniform Crime Reports
Search county level data files on adult and juvenile arrests and reported crimes.

For additional criminal justice sites, connect to the McNeese Library Legal Web Sites page 

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Family Issues

National Center on Elder Abuse
Basic fact sheets, laws, and reporting numbers are included as well as clearinghouse documents

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Information is provided about this problem, a checklist with behaviors that may be present is accessible and community responses are suggested.

Social Gerontology & the Aging Revolution
This Trinity University site has links to the biological, psychological, and sociological issues faced in the "aging experience".

Gender and Sexuality

American Men's Studies Association
Links to internet sites of interest to scholars, therapists, and lay people interested in the exploration of masculinity in modern society.

AS@UVA Yellowpages
Links from the American Studies Department at the University of Virginia. Includes extensive listings on gender, including a section on Family Studies, Men's Studies, Queer Studies and Women's Studies.

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Duke University's archive makes available scanned and transcribed versions of original documents held in their collection. These documents all chronicle events in the early Women's Liberation Movement including articles, pamphlets, flyers, and booklets published from 1969 to 1974.

Femina
Large searchable subject directory of internet resources for women and girls. Topics include, arts and humanities, education, family and motherhood, health and wellness, society and culture. Also lists a  Site of the Month.

Feminist Theory Website
This helpful resource divides materials into fields such as the traditional disciplines of education, history, and law, and topics such as Post-Colonialism, Separatism, and Body Studies.

Gender, Sexuality and the Body
This Georgetown University site includes has links for Women's Studies and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies

National Women's History Project-Links
Extensive list of links to biographical and historical information on women. Covers African-American women, athletics, aviation, politics, war and peace, women's research sites, women's rights movement and more.

NOW
National Organization for Women, Information on Political Action Committees, Press Releases, National NOW Times, and Subject Guide to Key Issues including, abortion, economic equity, women-friendly workplace, women in the military, and more.

QRD: Queer Resources Directory
An electronic research library dedicated to sexual minorities. Includes news clippings, newsletters, and links to other internet resources.

Queer Theory.com
This metasite guides users to quality online and print resources in the fields of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Studies, gender studies, and queer theory.

Women's and Gender Studies
Links selected by librarians from LSU covering issues and research on women and gender.

Women's Studies Database
A searchable database to documents of interest to students and scholars of Women's Studies from the University of Maryland

Women's Studies Resources
This University of Iowa site covers activism, art, communication/media, feminist theory, history, literature, music and sports

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Medicine

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine
This UCLA database includes treatment methods and links to more information

Center for Immigration Studies
The Center for Immigration Studies is a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded in 1985. It states that it is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.

Population Reference Bureau Country Statistics & Reports
Population, health, and environmental information for over 200 countries.

U.S. Census Bureau
Access U.S. Census data on a variety of social and economic subjects.

AASC Online Links
A list of links collected by the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. Links to major resources for Asian Americans in general and individual countries of origin.

African American Mosaic
Library of Congress resource guide for the study of African American history and culture.

AS@UVA Yellowpages
Links from the American Studies Department at the University of Virginia. Includes extensive listings on ethnicity, including sections on Americans of African, Arab, Asian, Jewish, Latino, Multicultural, and Native ancestry.

English Server: Race and Ethnicity
This literary collection, based at the University of Washington, consists of reference material, essays, and other works addressing issues of  race and ethnicity in the United States.

Judaism and Jewish Resources
This subject directory includes links to information on the Holocaust, Jewish studies, Jewish communities, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

Native American Sites
This wide-ranging site by Lisa Mitten covers the many aspects of the Native American culture from tribal colleges to pow-wows to music to arts organizations and individuals.

Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
Links  from this Georgetown University site concentrate on specific cultural groups in this country

Religion

Hartford Institute for Religion Research
This site gives as its goal the commitment to providing research based information on the social scientific study of religion in a way that makes this research usable for religious leaders and the general public. Included is information about sociologists of religion, organizations, and a search engine.

Religious Movements Homepage Project
This site discusses cult controversies and profiles religious groups.

Center for Social Research Methods
Intended for people involved in applied social research and evaluation

Cybersoc.com
This British site has the subtitle: "social impact of digital technology". Searchers can link to Cybersociology Webzine.