Sociology MetaSites

• SocioSite Univ. of Amsterdam, "editor Albert Benschop, and numerous sociologists from around the world have built and maintained an expansive, reliable, and reputable social science meta-site that aims to serve as a collegial online meeting place for the exchange of freely available sociology-oriented scholarly information."
• intute:social sciences: Sociology  intute based in the UK, is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the intute database.
• Social Sciences Virtual Library   part of the WWW-VL gateway; U.S.-based equivalent of intute
• World Lecture Hall: Sociology   U. of Texas-Austin, select "Browse by Subject"

• Institute for Social Research: Social Science in the Public Interest   University of Michigan's very well-known and widely respected ISR.
• Statistical Resources on the Web  Univ. of Michigan

• Addiction Search  good place to begin research; the site focuses on well-respected, reliable sources, not personal or self-help sites.
• The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: A Web Page for Research 
• After Sept. 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences  supported by the Social Science Research Council
• AIDS Coaltion to Unleash Power [ACTUP] Oral History Project  alternatively painful and uplifting; transcripts are downloadable as PDF files
• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007 
• American FactFinder   Provided by US Census; offers facts, figures, and analysis of key overall demographic trends
• Assessing the New Federalism   The Web site is funded by the Urban Institute; the site includes published research and downloadable data on income security, health, child well- being, demographics, fiscal and political conditions, and social services. Use of ANF data requires free registration.
• Better World Links   BWL supplies over 30,000 well-organized links in such topic areas as Peace & Disarmament, Human Rights, Social Justice, Women, Economics, and so on. Although the site is extremely large one reviewer estimated it had no more than a 2% error rate; it is updated weekly.
• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (CSISS)   a superb Web site offering a place for anyone who wishes to learn about the fundamentals and use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the social sciences
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities   A national authority on policy issues impacting primarily lower-income individuals and families; established in 1981
• Data on the Net    A helpful starting point for archival social science data, see esp. Searchable Catalogs of Data
• ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative  Berkeley
• ETOH: Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Database  provided by NIAAA and NIH (US Government)
• Feminist Theory Website  
• Gay/lesbian Politics & Law: WWW and Internet Resources   One review states that the site is comparable to a well-crafted reference book, replete with resources and information.
• Global System for Sustainable Development 
• Health and Age.com Note that the site is a .com site; the business aspect is not overly intrusive but should be borne in mind. Most appropriate for quick reference and summary information.
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports   Useful, easy-to-use; accurate and authoritative
• InfoNation   contains geographical, economic, demographic, and social indicators data for all 185 UN members
• Institute for Research on Poverty  U. Wisconsin
• Institute for Social Studies The Hague; can be very slow loading
• International Women's Health Coalition IWHC aims to play a role in "shifting the paradigm" from population control to sexual and reproductive health and gender equality
• Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet 
• The Migration Information Source   scholarly and text-rich
• NACo: National Association of Counties of particular interest is the County Resource Center link which includes a library with links to survey results and other full-text publications
• National Conference of State Legislatures  
• National Issues.com Site creators are public relations, think tank, and political operatives in Georgia. Intended as a quick digest (i.e. not in-depth analyses) of information on public policy issues, such as gun control, taxes, social security
• National Survey of America's Families  Sponsored by the Urban Institute
• The Odum Institute: Institute for Research in Social Science    Exclusive repository for Harris polls from 1958 to the present.
• ONE Institute & Archives   Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered culture from post-World War II to the present
• Penn Center for Bioethics    The Center's mission is to "promote scholarly and public understanding of the ethical, legal, social and public policy implications of advances in the life sciences and medicine." The site features the online Pennbioethics Newsletter, searchable from 1995 to the present; recent newsletter articles address such topics as universal health care, dementia and the voting process, and so on. The Web site also links to the companion site Bioethics.net
• Politicalinformation.com: A Search Engine for Politics, Policy, & Political News 
• PollingReport.com   This Internet vehicle for the magazine The Polling Report gives undergraduates, teachers, and researchers alike easy access to a timely, high quality cross-section of poll data on topics of national political, economic, and sociocultural interest.
• Popcultures.com: Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center   up-to-date, universal guide to the assortment of cultural studies resources and information on the World Wide Web, though obviously the emphasis is on popular culture.
• Population Reference Bureau
   offers 18,000 online full text documents under 30 subject resource guides.
• Population Index on the Web   Population Index ceased production in 1999, however Princeton University has placed a browsable, searchable archives of all 46,000 abstracts appearing in the publication from 1986-1999 on the Web. The Population Index indexed, "books . . ., serial publications, journal articles, working papers, doctoral dissertations, and machine-readable data files." The search engine is simple but inflexible; the data also lacks customized retrieval options--author or subject terms are not hotlinked, etc.
• Population Profile of the United States [2000]   US Census Bureau
• Public Agenda Online.org  
• Research Resources for the Social Sciences In cooperation with McGraw-Hill
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research   A unique resource providing access to more than 15,000 survey files
• Smart Communities Network.govMaintained by the US Department of Energy; the content focuses on the successes that some communities have had in pursuing sustainable development.
• SocioWeb: Sociological Resources on the Internet 
• Social Gerontology & the Aging Revolution 
• Social Indicators of Development World Bank, 1996 downloadable format pdf 397 pages.
  See also a different perspective in Indicators of Sustainable Development GAIA, 2002
• Social Psychology Net   emphasis on sociology perspective; good introduction, some links dated
• Social Psychology Network   A psychology site with more than 15,000 links to related areas.
• Social Work  U. of Michigan
• Sociology of Death & Dying
• SocioSite   University of Amsterdam; an expansive, reliable, and reputable social science meta-site
• Statistical Resources on the Web   U. of Michigan
• U. N. Population Information Network (POPIN) 
• UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency   
• U. S. Census Bureau
• Wal-Mart Report: Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price We All Pay for Wal-Mart
 Feb. 2004; House Commitee on Education and the Workforce, Representative George Miller (D-CA)
• Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs 
  and Living Wage Policies and Wal-Mart Briefing Paper Series, and Research Briefs from UC Berkeley Labor Center
• Human Rights Watch: Discounting Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association 
• Web Center for Social Research Methods aka Bill Trochim's Cornell. Well-designed, searchable site focused on applied social research
• Weberian Sociology of Religion   includes some of Weber's works in a hyperlinked searchable format. Each Text appears in frames, with accompanying detailed outline and footnotes.
• Women Working, 1870-1930   Harvard University
• World Health Organization authoritative, comprehensive, up-to-date, user-friendly Web site.
• WWW Virtual Library: American Indians: Index of Native American Resources on the Internet  

• Minority Links: census.gov
• Facts Sheets for specific races this is now a searchable database rather than a series of reports

• Selected Anthropology Links
• Anthropology Biography Web  Part of the Minnesota State University EMusuem. Offers brief encyclopedic entries about notable scientists
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology   links to current exhibits, past exhibits also available.
• WWW-VL: AnthropologyWWW-Virtual Library site

• Related Dunagan Library web pages
• Selected Criminology Resources Page 
• Selected Law Resources
• Selected Political Science Resources
• Selected Psychology Resources
• Selected Ready Reference Resources
• Selected U.S. Government Sites