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Topics

Professional Sociology Organizations	Professional Social Science Organizations	Online Journals	News/Miscellaneous Information
Dictionaries	Maps	Sociological Theory	Social Research Methods
Research Organizations	US, Canadian and European Agencies	United Nations and International Agencies	Population Data
Family	Family Violence	Gender Issues	Religion
Miscellaneous	Texas Wesleyan Online Databases	Area Libraries	SocioSite

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Professional Sociology Organizations

The American Sociology Association (meets in August)	National Council of State Sociological Associations
Mid-South Sociological Association Home Page (meets in October)	Southwest Sociological Association (meets in March)
Pacific Sociological Association (meets in April)	North Central Sociological Association (meets April)
New England Sociological Society(meets Spring and Fall)	Midwest Sociological Association (meets in April)
Eastern Sociological Society (meets in March)	Washington DC Sociological Society (meets monthly)
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (meets in October)	Association for the Sociology of Religion (meets in August)
International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) (meets in February)	Alpha Kappa Delta See local campus for meeting times.
Association for Humanist Sociology	Rural Sociological Society
Society for Applied Sociology	Society for the Study of Social Problems
International Sociological Association	Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
British Sociological Association	European Sociological Association
Asia Pacific Sociological Association	European Society for Rural Sociology
The Sociological Association of Aotearoa (New Zealand)	Australian Sociological Association
School of Community Service	South African Sociological Association

Professional Social Science Organizations

International Social Science Council	International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
European Consortium for Political Research	International Society of Political Psychology
Canadian Political Science Association	International Studies Association
International Political Science Association	American Political Science Association
American Judicature Society	American Studies Association
Law and Society Association	Latin American Studies Association
American Society for Public Administration	Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

OnLine Journals

U of H Scholarly Journals Online	CTHEORY - Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory	Postmodern Culture
New Jour Electronic Journals and Newsletters	Theory & Science (Theory, science and Social change, ICAAP quarterly mcgett@uscolo.edu)	J ournal of Mundane Behavior (Soc Dept, Fullerton Calif 3x yr)
WWWVirtual Library of E Journals	Journal of World Systems Research (Interdisciplinary)	Culture and Tradition (Bilingual folklore journal, St. John's Newfoundland - Annual)
BUBL Journal Collections BUBL Journal List	Current Research in Social Psychology (Uof Iowa	Journal of World Anthropology (State Univ of NY at Buffalo - Irregular)
Thursby Social Sciences Journals	Sociological Research Online (Applied sociology, U of Surrey and Stirling, quarterly)	Communication (Univ of South Africa)
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center	Social Research Update (New Research techniques/analysis, Univ of Surrey, England sociology@soc.surrey.ac.uk - quarterly)	KACIKE: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology
Australian Journals Online	Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report	Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology (Rethink every aspect of the human. Eric Gans Semiannual)
UCSD Libraries	The Qualitative Report	Folklore - Folklore Dept of Institute of Estonian Language mare@haldjas.folklore.ee)
Journals and Newspapers	Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology	Folklife Center News folklife@loc.gov (quarterly)
Anthropological Index Online (British Museum)	Canadian Journal of Sociology	De Proverbio (International proverb studies, paremiology (study of proverbs) and parameiography (collection of proverbs) Univ of Tasmania, Australia)
Learning Technology Journals (Canada)	H uman Development & Family Life Bulletin (Quarterly newsletter from Ohio State Univ Dept of Human Development and Family Science)	E thnomusicology Online (audio, video, multimedia resources. U Maryland)
Complexity International	Journal of Classroom Interaction (from Univ of Houston- semi-annual)	Music & Anthropology: Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean and Beyond (English/Italian - Irregular)
Connections	EDUCOM - Information Technology in Education Academe This Week	Ethnomusicology Research Digest
Social Networks Journal	Student Sociologist	American Graduate (For graduate students, published 3x yr)

News and Miscellaneous Information

The Newsplace	WWWVirtual Library	Murali Krishnamurti's Useful Links
Library of Congress Newspaper and Periodical Reading Room	Library of Congress Internet Resources	Internet Public Library (General Information that you would findin Public Library)
5,000 Libraries around the world	Gutenberg Project - Entire texts that are not copyrighted	IAIR - Directory of Classic Etexts
Virtual Library: Society	WWW Virtual Library	CIA World Fact Book
Web Chronology Project, North Park University	BUBL Catalog of Internet Resources	Sociology Virtual Library

Dictionaries

Websters English Dictionary	Red Feather Dictionary of Critical Social Science
Glossary of Political Economy Terms, Auburn University	Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences, Athabasca University
B Hara's Reference Sites	Sociology Dictionary

Maps

United Nations Cartographic Section, political maps of the world

Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin

Social Theory

Dead Sociologist's Society	Ed Stephan's Sociology Time Line	Sociology Internet Resources
WWWSociological Theory and Theorists	Transtrak Social Theorists (J. Lamberton)	Women's Studies Section Links
T heory.org	The SocioWeb	Classical Sociological Theory
M Kearl's Sociological Theory	Sociological Tour Through Space	Map of Sociological Theory

Sociological Methods

Survey Research Center at Princeton	SPSS Inc. - Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
Glossary of Statistical Terms, Rice University	Umich Data Sources
Statistical Terminology	StatLib---Datasets Archive
Stata Tutorial	National Science Foundation Databases
Resources to help you learn Stata	Upenn Data Center
Getting Started on Stata	Upenn Population Studies
Stata Corporation	ICPSR Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
Stata Modules	General Social Survey Resources developed at Queen's College
Data and Story Library	Microsociology Software Gallery (MACS only)
Databases and Archives	Analysis Software

Research Organizations
These organizations are a good source of information.
Sometimes they make their data available to others for further analysis.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)	RAND Organization--Public Policy Research	The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
General Social Survey	Public Opinion Laboratory	The Gallup Organization
Survey Research Center at Princeton	Nielson Media Research	Survey Research Data and Sources (UMICH) Lots of data
Institute for Research In Social Science (UNC) Poll question database from 1960s	Social Science Data Archive	Marist Institute for Public Opinion New York and national
Public Agenda Policy issues	The Polling Report	The Pulse Opinion polls from Economic Policy Institute
Center on Policy Attitudes	The L.A. Times Poll	SSDC Public Opinion Data
Eagleton Institute New Jersey	California Poll	Ohio Poll
Archives of the National Networks of State Polls	Quinnipiac polls New England and Middle Atlantic States	The Star Tribune Minnesota Poll
National Election Studies	European Public Opinion	ZEUS
Centre for Applied Social Surveys Archives of surveys in U.K.	US Social Science Research Council	DPLS data cross roads (good resource to data)
North American Social Science Data Archives

US, Canadian and European Agencies
Agencies are a good sources of information. They often do elaborate studies and make the results
available to the public. Those who don't do studies themselves collect data from elsewhere.
US GOVERNMENT and OTHER AGENCIES

National Science Foundation Publications	National Criminal Justice Research Center	Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Bureau of Justice Statistics	Federal Statistics	Bureau of Census
Bureau of Labor Statistics	Department of Education	Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Federal Bureau of Investigation	Central Intelligence Agency	State and Local Governments
FindLaw	FedWorld	Historical US Census Data
CIA World Fact Book	Peace Science Society	Peace Studies Association

CANADIAN AGENCIES

Canadian data archives	Canada Statistics	Canadian Institute of International Affairs

EUROPEAN AGENCIES

European Parliament	Maastricht Treaty (Treaty of the European Union	G-8 Website
Council of Europe	European Union
Royal Institute of International Affairs	European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)	Eurotext
National Audit Office	UK Data Archive	UK Government site
U.K. National Statistics	UK National Digital Archive of Datasets
UK Social Science Data Archive	Scotland

United Nations and International Agencies

United Nations	United Nations Industrial Development Organisation	United Nations Statistics
Charter of the United Nations	United Nations International Treaty Collection	United Nations Economic and Social Council
InfoNation: United Nations current statistics on 185 countries	United Nations World Population	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
The World Bank	Constitutions of the World	World Health Organization
World Bank Data Sets	OECD	World Trade Organization
Database of worldwide parliaments	Worldwide Election Statistics	Worldwide Election Guide
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	World Resources Institute	Magna Carta
Governments	Governments of the world	Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
International Federation of Health Funds	Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices	International Social Security Association
International Monetary Fund	Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)	Organisation of American States
International Labour Organisation	International Relations glossary	South Africa
New Zealand	China Population Information and Research Center (CPIRC)	Latin American Development Archive
Australian data	Population Index on the Web	Praxis: resources for social and economic development
Luxembourg Income Study	Worldwide Social Science Data Archives	Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, International Social Science Council
World Social Science Data Archives	UN Food and Agricultural Organization

Population Data

US Population

PBS First Measured Century	US Census Bureau	Census Tract Street Locator	Census Bureau News
Population Tables and Reports	Statistical Abstracts	News Releases	Overview of Race and Hispanic Data
Texas State Data Center	Texas Challenged a report prepared for Texas Legislative Council	Hispanic Research Program, Tamu	Texas Population Estimates and Projections Program
Population Index (Princeton Univ)	Population Institute	Population Reference Bureau	Zero Population Growth organization
Johns HopkinsCenter for Communication Programs Population Reports	Population Association of America Ask questions here!	Migration Dialogue from UC, Davis	US Immigration and Naturalization Service

International

United Nations Population Information Network	View and Compare population statistics for nations of the UN	United Nations Population Fund
UNDP Human Development Reports	World Health Organization Statistical Information System	PopNet – for global population information
Population Action International	World Bank See World Development Indicators	Population Communications International
Statistics of Canada	Statistics of Mexico	Robert McCaa’s data on Mexico
Insights from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Australian Population Association

Issues affected by Population Growth

Center for International Earth Science Information - Columbia Univ	National Center for Health Statistics	UN High Commissioner for Refugees
European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations	Status of Social Security and Medicare Programs	National Institute on Aging (See their Behavioral and Social Research Program)
Health and Retirement Study of U of Mich	Panel Study of Income Dynamics – U of Mich	Center for International Health Information (especially Third World Countries)
Alan Guttmacher Institute of NY – family planning and reproductive health	International Planned Parenthood Federation	Demographic and Health Surveys, from Macro International
US Bureau of Labor Statistics	UN Food and Agricultural Organization	Sustainable Agricultural Research and Education Program at UC Davis

Lobby Groups and Miscellaneous Cites

The Futures Group International See Resources	Demosphere International a Data marketing firm
National Decision Systems Play the lifestyle game here!	Claritas A demographics firm that developed PRIZM
Dialogues between Ben Wattenburg and Kenneth Hill (Johns Hopkins Prof) Jan 6, 1998 Jan 8, 1998 Jan 26, 1988 Feb 4 Feb 10 Feb 19	Some Famous Demographers and Issues Condorcet Malthus Neo-Malthusian Discussion
Population and Development Review A NY journal dedicated to the results of population growth.	The Longevity Game See how long you can expect to live
Virtual Lab in Race and Ethnic Stratification and Inequality	Dudley Poston's Population and Society Notes
Data Resources for Sociologist

Family

Yahoo Marriage Links Yahoo – Family Organizations	Administration for Children and Families
Natural Family Planning	History of the Family Quarterly
Roman Family	Families in the Criminal Justice System
Roman Mixed Marriages	Poverty in the United States
Medieval Domestic Life	Out of Wedlock Births
Internet Medieval Source Book	The Census Guide to Households and Families
Family Counseling Sites	Families in the World
Imago Therapy	National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse
Smart Marriages--education for marriage, family and couples	Health Finder
The ICQ Family Network	National Network to End Domestic Violence
Stepparenting	National Survey of America's Families:
The National Parenting Center	National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Child, Youth, and Family Health	Relationshipweb.com - First aid for relationships
The Best Jobs for Women	Information on Cohabitation
Research on Child Well-Being	Introduction to the Family
Campaign for Our Children	Time Magazine article on Divorce
Boston Center for Work and Family	A Metropolitan Approach to Workforce Development
The Work/Family Institute at Penn State	Families and Work Institute
The Kunz Center for the Study of Work and Family	Work and Family Connection

Genealogy Sites

Family TreeMaker	Family Search	Switchboard	Ultimate Family Tree
GenWeb	Webcat	Repository of Primary Sources	Canadian Library Resource Centre
Ancestry.com	Genealogy.com	Helm's Genealogy Toolbox	Heritage Quest
National Genealogical Society	Mayflower Web Pages	National Archives and Records Administration's Archival Info	African-American Census Schedules
AfriGeneas	AsianGenWeb	America's First Families	Family Shoebox
Gendex	Mormon Family Genealogy

Supplemental Material on Family

Definitions of Love and Quotes about Love	Notes on Stephanie Coontz's Book	Supplemental Material: Gender
Theories of Love (Outline)	Notes on Edward Shorter's Book	Supplemental Material: Games
S. Horsfall's Lecture on Love (Outline)	Fact Sheet on Parents and Children	Writing a Research Paper
		Sample Paper

Family Violence

National Clearinghouse on Family Violence Sharing Information and Solutions	Intimate/Domestic Violence Resources	Stop Abuse forEveryone
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse	Social Work Search	Questions and Answers on Domestic Violence
National Network to End Domestic Violence	Muslims Against Family Violence	Victim Services
South Carolina Violence Intervention Agencies	Husband Battering	Battered Women's Testimony

Gender Issues

GENDER Issues Library ****	TWU Woman's Collection (940) 898-3751 PO Box 425528, Denton 76204 womansc@twu.edu	History of the Men’s Movement
Women's Studies Section Links	Women's Contribution to Physics	Australian Men’s Movement
Legacy of Jane Addams	Women Mathematicians	Backlash - exposing and opposing antimale sexism
Jane Addams Hull House	Notable Women in Computing	Men’s Movement and Home Improvement
Women and Gender in the Ancient World	Women of NASA	Greenman – Men’s Spirituality Issues defining the male in society, and the men's movement.
Biographies of Distinguished Women	Women Nobel Prize Laureates	Men’s Voices Magazine - focus on men's issues and personal growth.
Women's History Month Posters and books	400 Years of Women in Science	Bioenergetics Press - books, tapes, statistics about men's issues.
Women's Rights Movement	National Women's History Project	Husband Battering
Women's History Magazine	Women in History Resource	Men’s Issues - discussion and list of men's groups and events in Australia.
Virtual Library of Women's History	National Women's Hall of Fame	Opposing Opinions - combating "women good, men bad" political correctness.
Women's Studies Data Base	ACRL Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee Web Site	Men’s Issues Page - fatherhood, men's rights, false abuse allegations, paternity suits, sexual harrassment, employment, child support,
ACRL Women's History Links	Women and Theology

Religion

WEB HOSTS:
http://www.netchurch.com,
http://church-online.com/,
http://www.churchlink.com/,
http://www.churchesontheweb.com/
CHURCH LOCATORS:
ttp://www.church-profiles.com,
http://www.christianity.net/churchlocator/,
http://www.netchurch.com,
http://www.churches.net/churches/,
http://www.netministries.org/churches.htm
ONLINE BIBLES:
http://www.onlinebible.simplenet.com,
http://JESUSaves.com/bible/,
http://ccel.wheaton.edu/wwsb/,
http://bible.gospelcom.net/,
http://etext.virginia.edu/rsv.browse.html,
http://www.ccim.org/~bible/,
http://www.internetdynamics.com/pub/vc/bibles.html
Arabic Bible
BIBLE SEARCHES:
http://bible.gospelcom.net/,
http://www.biblesearch.com,
http://etext.virginia.edu/,
http://unbound.biola.edu/,
http://supernet.net/~chrisd/home/bible.html
Baptist
Association of World Baptists
North American Mission Board
http://www.sbc.net/home.cfm,
http://www.bwanet.org/justice/
http://www.lhbg.org/dev&res.htm
The homepage for all Baptists
Welcome to BaptistNet, Your Online Baptist Community!
International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention
American Baptist Association
Welcome to the Baptist World Alliance Web Site
Dallas Baptist University
The official site for the Southern Baptist Convention
Catholic
http://www.vatican.va/
http://www.ewtn.com/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/catholic.html
John Mark Ockerbloom spok+catholic@cs.cmu.edu
Catholic Online On The Web
Catholic Encyclopedia
American Catholic Online
Roman Catholic Churches Directory
LDS
http://www.lds.org/
Scientology
http://www.scientology.org/
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/prolinks
http://bernie.cncfamily.com/legal.htm
http://www2.thecia.net/users/rnewman/scientology/home.html; rnewman@thecia.net.
Unification Church
http://unification.org/
http://tongil.or.kr/ENG/CH/enindex.htm
http://www.unification.net/
http://www.tparents.org/
http://w ww.ettl.co.at/unification/
Falun Gong
http://falundafa.org
http://falundafa.ca
Orthodox
Russian Orthodox Church
Orthodox Christian Page
Orthodox Church in America
Evangelical Lutheran Church Canada
http://www.elcic.ca/
UCC Churches
http://www.ucc.org/links2.htm
Dallas/Fort Worth Churches
http://www.fni.com/dfw/churlist.html
Church World Service
http://bruno.ncccusa.org/cws
Protestant churches
Presbyterian Church in America http://www.pcanet.org
Reformed Episcopal Church http://www.recus.org/
United Pentecostal Church International http://www.upci.org
Christianity Today http://www.christianity.net/ct
United Church of Christ http://www.ucc.org
Prison Fellowship Ministries http://www.pfm.org
First Church of Cyberspace http://www.execpc.com/~chender
BAHA'I FAITH:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/bahai.htm
Jehovah's Witnesses - All Along the Watchtower
http://home.sol.no/jansh/wteng/jwindex.html
Back to Godhead http://www.Krishna.com
General Reference
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Psychology - Psychology of Religion
Transpersonal Psychology
American Academy of Religion - New Religious Groups
Bibliography of New Religious Movements
Alternative or New Religions
Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture
Religious Movements Homepage - U of Virginia
AAR Mysticism Page
Mysticism Resources Page
Religion Links

Miscellaneous
Question Factory
Society for Scientific Exploration
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Home Page
The SocioWeb
Teaching Tolerance
Research Engines for the Social Sciences
Sociology Links
The Federal Web Locator
Yale HTML Page (go to Web Services)
WWW Page Builders (SFASU)
Resources for Sociologists
Kevin Edward's Social Resources
Macionis Web Page
SOSIG
Guthersby Social Science Virtual Library
One World Net
OECD Online
Barry Wellman's Homepage
Some others who do Network Analysis
What is Network Analysis?
ASA Section on Community
Kevin Dooley's Chaos and Complexity Information
Thursby Page
Pakistan
India

Texas Wesleyan On-line Databases

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Area Libraries
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