Sociology resources

1. Data, Statistics and Surveys
2. Directories
3. Online Journals
4. Societies
5. Suggested Web Sites

Data, Statistics and Surveys

• ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Established in 1962, the Inter-University Consorium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an active partner in social science research and instruction throughout the world. ICPSR's unique combination of data resources, user support, and training in quantitative methods make it a vital resource for fostering inquiry and furthering the social sciences.
• QuestionBank Contains questionnaires for large-scale social surveys. Does not include data from the surveys
• SSDC, Data on the Net A listing of over 350 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States "...the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States."
• Survey Research Center The Survey Research Center is the largest of the four Centers of the Institute for Social Research. For more than 50 years, the Survey Research Center has been a national and international leader in interdisciplinary social science research involving the collection or analysis of data from scientific sample surveys.
• U.S. Census Bureau's American FactFinder An excellent source for statistics on population, housing, race, income, education, businesses, and geography of the U.S.
• United Nations Social Indicators Social indicators covering a wide range of subject-matter fields, including child-bearing, child and elderly populations, contraceptive use, education, health, housing, human settlements, income and economic activity, literacy, population, unemployment, and water supply and sanitation.

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Directories

• A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace Commentary, data analysis, essays and links.
• Intute: Sociology "...current research in British Sociology"
• The Socio Web Independent guide to sociological resources on the Internet.
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Collection of links to institutions, research centers, databases, associations, organizations, and other resources in sociology.

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Online Journals

• DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals A directory of full-text electronic scholarly journals available free of charge. All journals included in the DOAJ must meet a quality control standard, either peer review or editorial quality control.
• Electronic Journal of Sociology "...research papers on topical or critical issues of today that are both scholarly and accessible."
• JSTOR Journals Note: Available to current CSU students and faculty only.
  American Journal of Sociology 1895-2002
  American Sociological Review 1936-2005
  Annual Review of Sociology 1975-2002
  Contemporary Sociology 1972-2005
  Journal of Black Studies 1970-2004
  Journal of Educational Sociology 1927-1963
  Journal of Health and Human Behavior 1960-1966
  Journal of Health and Social Behavior 1967-2005
  Public Opinion Quarterly 1937-2002
  Social Psychology 1978
  Social Psychology Quarterly 1979-2005
  Sociology of Education 1963-2005
  Sociometry 1937-1977
• Sociological Research Online "Peer Reviewed articles, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates."
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Electronic Journals and Newsletters Provides links to electronic journal indexes and over 75 electronic journals and fourteen electronic newsletters in the field of sociology.

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Societies

• Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology The Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology seeks to promote the application of sociological knowledge for beneficial social change through scholarly, educational, programmatic, community, and policy activities.
• Rural Sociological Society The Rural Sociological Society is a professional social science organization that promotes the generation, application, and dissemination of sociological knowledge. The Society seeks to enhance the quality of rural life, communities, and the environment.
• The Southern Sociological Society Established in 1935, the Southern Sociological Society is a society of professionals that promotes the development of sociology as a profession and scientific discipline by the maintenance of high academic professional and ethical standards, and by encouraging effective teaching of sociology, valid and reliable methods and research in the study of human society, diffusion of sociological knowledge and its application to societal problems, cooperation with related disciplines and groups, recruitment and training of sociologists, and development of sociology programs in educational and other agencies.

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Suggested Web Sites

• Dead Sociologists' Society "A list of the various theorists, some biographical information, and a summary of their work..."
• Demography & Population studies "The Internet Guide to Demography and Population Studies"
• Human Development Reports Annual reports commissioned by the UN Development Programme.
• Population Index on the Web "This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000."

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