Sociology
Websites

Author: Kathy Enger

African American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
The library of congress put together this rare collection of books, documents, and photographs on African American history.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute
http://www.agi-usa.org
Research on reproductive health issues and policy

American Slavery
http://www.slavenarratives.com
Between 1936 and 1938 the Federal Writer's Project collected typescripts of life histories of 2,000 former slaves. The y were organized by George Rawick and published as The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (19v., CH, Jul '78), supplemented by and index compiled by Howard Potts (CH Dec '97). Now, Greenwood offers and online version of the collection and the index. The site can be easily navigated and provides images of the original typewritten manuscripts in the Library of Congress.

American Sociological Association
http://www.asanet.org/
Career information for sociology students and resources on social issues

Population Refrence Bureau
http://www.prb.org/
Statistics on population, children, education, income/poverty, projections, and race/ethnicity. This is a great resource for researching historical trends in the US and also includes statistics on other countries.

American Studies Web
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw
How to enhance teaching American Studies

ArcData Online
http://www.esri.com/data/online/
Provided by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), this site allows users to create a variety of maps online.

Canadian social research links
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/
This site contains a multitude of links not just to Canadian resources but links to resources around the world. Topics are focused mostly on social issues of welfare, health, and social research organizations.

Data on the net
http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/
Find data on social science statistics, links include the US census bureau and Center for disease control.

Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive
http://www.essex.ac.uk
The Data archive in the University of Essex, acquires, houses and distributes about 7,000 datasets in the social sciences.

The Electronic Map Library
http://130.166.124.2/library.html
Provided by the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge, this site hosts Professor William Bowen's excellent collection of digital atlases. Atlases are available for Boston, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, the US, California, and New York City. Atlases for each are divided into at least four principle topics: Population and Race, Income, Poverty, and Adult Educational Attainment. An added valuable feature for the non-California cities is a locator map detailing the principle boroughs and neighborhoods. In addition to the atlases, the site also hosts a Census Data Archive, with data from Southern California, California, and the US census.

General Social Survey Data and Information Retrieval System (GSSDIRS)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/gss/
Collection of reseach conducted by the National Opinion Reseach Center on how people view various social issues like abortion or AIDS. The surveys date back to 1972.

The Health and Retirement Study
www.umich.edu/~hrswww
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) are nationally representative longitudinal data collections that examine retirement and the aging of society.

IGC: PeaceNet
http://www.igc.org/
Choose from the four main topics of anti-racism, peace, women, and the environment to view headline news, and links to other sites on related topics.

Index of Native American Resources on the Net
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources

Info Nation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
Information from the World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook

International Institute of Social History
http://www.iisg.nl

Latin American Network Information Center
http://lanic.utexas.edu

The Media Literacy Online Project
http://interact.uoregon.edu/mediaLit/HomePage

National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov

National Museum of American Jewish History
http://nmajh.org/exhibitions

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
www.ncjrs.org/homepage.htm
Criminal justice information including documents, www sites, listservs on the areas of corrections, crime prevention, criminal justice statistics, drugs and crime, juvenile justice. NCJRS Abstracts database indexes criminal justice literature.

National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu
NORC is a nonprofit corporation affiliated with the University of Chicago that conducts survey research in the public interest for government agencies, educational institutions, private foundations, nonprofit organizations, and private corporations.

Online Survey Research
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/po/index.html

People with a History
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh

Population profile of the United States
http://www.census.gov/population/www/
Search this web site for US statistics on population, and related topics including education, children, and births.

Queer resources directory
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/
This site links to a multitude of publishing on the web from newspaper articles to emails about homosexual issues. Topics include, health, religion, youth, and media.

Research Resources for the Social Sciences
http://www.socsciresearch.com

Roper center for public opinion research
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
Search this site for information and statistics on public opinion on the topics of presidential elections, women and work, exit polls, and how to conduct public polling. This site also includes statistics on current presidential approval ratings and approval ratings on past presidents.

Social sciences virtual library
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/socsci/index.htm
This site provides links to a multitude of resources for social science researchers. Links are arranged alphabetically or search on-line journals, achieves, or social science societies.

Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Statistical files from the Documents Center at the University of Michigan Library.

Survey Research Resources
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~abelson/
This site links to good resources on the web for social sciences surveys, it also includes links to state polls and international polls. Also government resources, college research centers, and information on how surveys are conducted.

Uncle Tom's Cabin and America Culture
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc

United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
http://www.un.org/popin/

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org

University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies
This Web site provides current core publications including bibliographies, directories, programs and topical guides in Women's Studies.

Urban Planning 1794-1918
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm

US census bureau
http://www.census.gov/
Search statistics found in 2000 census on people, business, geography and more. Also search more recent statistics and quick facts.

World Food Habits Bibliography
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/