HSU Library - Sociology Resources on the Web

Comprehensive Web Pages
Electronic Reference Sources
Special Topics: Statistics & Data Sets
Indexes & Abstracts
Style Manuals

Comprehensive Web Pages

Allyn & Bacon Sociology Links (http://www.abacon.com/sociology/soclinks/index.html)
Julian Dierkers' Sociolog (http://www.sociolog.com/)
Michael Kearl's Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace (http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/index.html)
Research Resources for the Social Sciences (http://www.socsciresearch.com)
SocioSite (http://www.sociosite.net)
SocioWeb (http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/)
Transtrak's Cyberguide to Sociology (http://www.transtrak.com/tableofcontents.htm)
University of Southern Indiana's Social_Psychology.Net (http://www.usi.edu/libarts/socio/socpsy/socpsy.htm)
Western Connecticut State University: Sociology Internet Resources (http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/socres.html)
World Wide Web Virtual Sociology Library (http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/)

Electronic Reference Sources

Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice [restricted to the HSU community]
Encyclopedia of Population [restricted to the HSU community]
Encyclopedia of Sociology [restricted to the HSU community]
International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family [restricted to the HSU community]
Social Trends & Indicators [restricted to the HSU community]

Special Topics

Alternative Dispute Resolution Overview from Cornell (http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/adr.html)
American Sociological Association (http://www.asanet.org/)
Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods (http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/)
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Capital Punishment 1998 (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cp98.htm)
California Sociological Association (http://www.class.csupomona.edu/Organizations/csa/)
Center for Immigration Studies (http://www.cis.org/)
Center for Spatially Integrate Social Science (http://www.csiss.org/)
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions: Ethics Online Project (http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/) - Contains the codes of ethics for 850 organizations. There is a searchable index for the codes.
Concise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet (http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/manual.htm)
Criminal Justice Links: Florida State University School of Criminology (http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/)
Dead Sociologists' Society (http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/DEADSOC.HTML)
Death Row USA (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=9&did=145)
Drug Watch International (http://www.drugwatch.org/)
Ed Stephan's Sociology Timeline (http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/timeline.html)
Gallup Poll (http://www.gallup.com)
Human Rights Sites from the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law (http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/sites/sites.html)
I Care: Crosspoint World Anti-Racism Internet Centre (http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/)
International Institute of Social History (http://www.iisg.nl/)
Internet Sociologist: Internet Information Skills for Sociologists (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/vts/sociologist/)
Migration Information Source (http://www.migrationinformation.org/)
Mike Goodman's Sociology for Short Attention Spans (http://www.miller-co.com/socio/goodsoc.html)
National Journal [restricted to the HSU community] - Click on the "Poll Track" link to track polls related to public opinion on campaigns and legislative and policy issues.
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (http://www.religioustolerance.org)
The Pacific Sociological Association (http://www.csus.edu/psa/)
PollingReport.com - Public Opinion Online (http://www.pollingreport.com/)
Racial Profiling (http://www.racialprofilinganalysis.neu.edu/)
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research (http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/)
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/)
Social, Economic and Political Change (http://gsociology.icaap.org/)
Society for Applied Sociology (http://www.appliedsoc.org/)
Sociological Associations (http://www.asanet.org/index.ww)
Sociological Practice Association (http://www.socpractice.org/)
Sociological Research Online Journal (http://www.socresonline.org.uk/home.html)
Sociology Dictionary (http://www.webref.org/sociology/index.htm)
Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.splcenter.org/)
Studs Terkel-Conversations with America (http://www.studsterkel.org/)
Understanding Prejudice.Org (http://www.understandingprejudice.org/)

Statistics & Data Sets

American Fact Finder (http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en)

Department of Health and Human Service Administration for Children & Families Statistics and Data (http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/research.html)

CSU Social Science Data Base Archive SSDBA (http://ssdba.calstatela.edu/) - Access to ICPSR data, California Field Polls, Roper Polls, U.S. Census, the Sociometrics Library, etc.

FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/)

Henry A. Murray Research Archive (http://www.murray.harvard.edu/mra/index.jsp)

Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences data gateway (http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/index.asp)

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html)

ICPSR Data Use Tutorial (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/help/newuser.html)

Michael Kearl's Social Science Data Sources (http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/data.html)

National Sexual Violence Resource Center (http://www.nsvrc.org/)

Public Policy & the American Family (from Swarthmore) (http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/Economics/econ43/download.html)

Research Randomizer (www.randomizer.org)

Sample Size Calculator (http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm)

Social Science Data Analysis Network (http://www.ssdan.net/)

Social Science Data Archives from Sociosite (http://www.sociosite.net/databases.php)

Social Sciences Data Service: World Wide Web Resources (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/ssds/www.resources.html)

SPSS Support Page (http://fdc.fullerton.edu/research/spss/)

Statistical Sites on the Web (http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm)

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/)

United State Census--Families and Living Arrangements (http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html)

University of Michigan Statistical Resources on the Web: Sociology (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsoc.html)

Urban Institute National Survey of America's Famillies data (http://www.urban.org/Content/Research/NewFederalism/NSAF/Overview/NSAFOverview.htm)

Whitehouse Social Statistics Briefing Room (http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html)

Indexes & Abstracts

Academic Search Elite [restricted to the HSU community] - This index also contains the fulltext of some sociology journals.
Center for the Study of the Prevention of Violence Index (http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/infohouse/databases.html)
Anthropology Plus [restricted to the HSU community]
CrimDoc database (University of Toronto Criminology Library Grey Literature database) (http://link.library.utoronto.ca/criminology/crimdoc/index.cfm)
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index [restricted to the HSU community] - This index also contains the fulltext of criminal justice periodical journals.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide [restricted to the HSU community]
Health and Psychosocial Instrument Test Database [restricted to the HSU Community]
NCJRS Abstracts Database (http://AbstractsDB.ncjrs.org/content/AbstractsDB_Search.asp)
Omnifile Full Text Mega [restricted to the HSU community]
Population Index (http://popindex.princeton.edu/)
PsycArticles [restricted to the HSU community]
PsycINFO [restricted to the HSU community]

Using PsycINFO for Psychological Research (http://library.humboldt.edu/infoservices/PsycInfo.pdf)

Restorative Justice Database (http://link.library.utoronto.ca/criminology/restorative_justice)
ScienceDirect [restricted to the HSU community]
Social SciSearch [restricted to the HSU community] - Use this index for citation searching to update seminal research articles!
Social Services Abstracts [restricted to the HSU community]
Sociological Abstracts [restricted to the HSU community]
Statistical Universe [restricted to the HSU community]
WorldCat [restricted to the HSU community] - Database of over 61 million books

Style Manuals

American Sociological Association Quick Style Guide (http://asanet.org/page.ww?section=Sociology+Depts&name=Quick+Style+Guide)
American Sociological Association Documentation Style (http://www.buffalostate.edu/library/docs/asa.pdf)
ASA Style Guide with citations for electronic formats (http://www.calstatela.edu/library/bi/rsalina/asa.styleguide.html)
American Sociological Review Formatting (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docsocio.html)
Citation Styles for Research Papers (http://www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm)
Citing Internet Documents (http://library.humboldt.edu/~ccm/libcat.html#citing)

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