Sociology Links

• A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
• American Sociological Association
• Federal Judiciary: About the U.S. Courts - Provides information about the court system the United States. Look specifically at the Understanding the Federal Courts, which provides a glossary of terms; an overview of the organization, operation, and administration of the court system; a list of the location and number of judges who sit on each court; and charts showing the structure of the federal court system and the path a case takes as it works its way through this system.
• HyperStat Online
• International Sociological Association
• Internet Sociologist
• SocioWeb
• Western Connecticut State University: Sociology Internet Resources
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
• Yahoo: Sociology

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. The Quick Index is a helpful feature.
• Data on the Elderly - This compilation of statistics from government agencies presents historical and current data on the demographic and economic characteristics of the elderly, including information on population, life expectancy, labor force participation, marital status, living arrangements, poverty rates, and income.
• United States Census Bureau: Age Data
• USC: Andrus Gerontology Library - Provides links to internet sources on aging and related topics. The Special Topics section will be of particular use to Sociology students.

Children

• Unicef - Provides links to resources such as statistical tables for measuring children's well-being. See individual reports listed below:
  State of the World's Children: 1996
  State of the World's Children: 1997
  State of the World's Children: 1998
  State of the World's Children: 1999
  State of the World's Children: 2000
  State of the World's Children: 2001
• United States Department of Health and Human Services: Administration for Children and Families - Press Room - Press releases provide statistics on children and demonstrations related to welfare reform.

Crime & Deviance

• American Society of Crimonology - 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 and practice of criminal law, as well as the law enforcement, judicial and correctional systems.
• Rand Corporation - RAND's research on civil and criminal justice primarily occurs in RAND Criminal Justice and the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ). RAND Criminal 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.
• United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network - The objectives of UNCJIN are to facilitate information exchange and interlinkages among policy makers, planners, practitioners, scholars and other experts, as well as United Nations national correspondents and research institutions; to provide gateways permitting the transfer of knowledge, including research results; to link criminal justice documentation centers and libraries around the world; to support the establishment and expansion of computerized national and local criminal justice systems.

Culture

• American Studies Crossroads Project
• CIA World Factbook Online
• Popular Culture: Online Resources
• Yahoo: Cultures and Groups

Education

• Ask Eric - This site is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and anyone interested in education throughout the United States and the world.
• United States Department of Education - Provides a range and an ever-growing collection of information about the Department, including our initiatives and priorities, grant opportunities, offices, publications,| research, and statistics.
• United States Department of Education: Publications - Provides access to many of its publications, including newsletters, publications for parents, education statitics, and so on.
• WWW Virtual Library: Education

Family

• Yahoo: Families

Gender

• Demographic and Health Survey - Provides statistics on birth control methods, infant mortality rates, percentage of children immunized, and other reproductive health-related topics.
• Glass Ceiling: The Findings and Recommendations of the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission
• IGC: WomensNet
• 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.
• University of Rhode Island: Office of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity

Health

• CDC: Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention - This site provides numerous tables containing statistics concerning AIDS cases, broken down by age, gender, race/ethnicity, geographical region, etc. It also provides information concerning AIDS trends and international projections.

Population, Economic Conditions, and Other Statistical Information

• United States Census Bureau: Search - Search the United States Census Bureau online collection of census-related documents.
• United States Census Bureau: Statistical Abstract of the United States Online - As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. *You can use the print version at the NCWC Library [REF 317.3 U58s].
• United States Census Bureau: Population - Provides census count and current estimates of the number of inhabitants of the Nation, regions, States, cities, counties, and other areas. It also furnishes a wide variety of information on social and economic characteristics of the population, such as household composition, ethnicity, and income and in-depth reports are prepared on important social, economic, and demographic issues.
• World Bank: Data and Maps
• World Bank: Poverty
• World Population: A Guide to the WWW
• WWW Virtual Library: Demography & Population Studies

Race & Ethnicity

• English Server: Race and Ethnicity - Consists of reference material, essays, and other works addressing issues of race and ethnicity in the United States.
• NAACP
• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• WWW Virtual Library: Migration and Ethnic Relations

Religion

• American Religion Data Archive
• Religious Resources on the Internet
• Sociology of Religion
• Weberian Sociology of Religion

Research Methods

• American Sociological Association (ASA) Format
• Formatting in Sociology

Social Stratification

• Social Stratification Links

Sociological Theory and Theorists

• Dead Sociologists' Society
• Emile Durkheim and Functionalism
• Emile Durkheim Page
• Karl Marx
• Karl Marx
• Marx and Engels Internet Archive
• Max Weber: Class, Status, Authority
• Max Weber's HomePage
• Robert K. Merton Papers
• Robert K. Merton: Social Structure and Anomie
• SocioSite: Famous Sociologists
• SocioWeb: Giants of Sociology
• Talcott Parsons Page
• Talcott Parsons: Structure of Social Action
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology, Sociological Theory and Theorists

Work

• Cornell University: Employment Discrimination: An Overview
• Origins of Affirmative Action