Selected Internet Resources in Sociology

This list is not intended to be a comprehensive catalog of Internet-based resources in Sociology. It represents only those items we find useful and informative in our everyday work in the Library. If you would like to recommend a resource for inclusion please contact: JoAnn Jacoby, Sociology Subject Specialist, Education and Social Science Library, 100 Main Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (217) 333-2305.

ASA Quick Style Guide for Students

Careers and Jobs for Sociologists - from the American Sociological Association (ASA)

Other Guides to Internet Resources

• Statistical Resources on the Web: Sociology from the University of Michigan
• Demography and Population Studies WWW Virtual Library: Through Australian National University. Over 100 links to demography, population studies and other social science subjects.
• UC - Berkeley Libraries -- Sociology: Links to Berkeley's collections and resources, electronic journals and related social science sites.
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology: Links to Dr. Carl Cuneo's site at the Department of Sociology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Highly recommended.
• Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG): Sociology: Access to worldwide information on sociology and the social sciences.
• SocioSite: Social Science Information System: Provided by the Sociological Institute of the University of Amsterdam, includes links to research centers, language resources, institutes, data archives and information on sociologists.
• Yahoo's Sociology Page: Sociology links from one of the premier indexes to the Internet.
• Blackwell Guide to Sociology Resources: Blackwell Publishers' guide to Internet resources in sociology. Includes links to research centers, electronic journals and discussion groups.
• The SocioWeb: A mega-site for independent sociology resources on the Web.
• Poverty Related Resources: Links to twenty categories of poverty related Internet resources, sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sociology Departments

• The UIUC Sociology Department
• An alphabetical listing of colleges and universities in America granting bachelor's and advanced degrees. Also has links to lists of international universities, Canadian universities and community colleges.

Organizations

• American Sociological Association (ASA)
  • ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
  • ASA Methods Section
  • ASA Culture Section
  • ASA Organization, Occupations and Work Section
  • Another ASA style guide - from California State University, Los Angeles
  • ASA Job Bank
• Society for Applied Sociology
• American Society of Criminology
• The Critical Criminology Division of the ASC (American Society of Criminology)
• International Sociological Association
• Sociological Abstracts, Inc. Homepage

Interesting Sociology Sites: Archives, Search Engines, and other Resources

• Anovasofie: Developing virtual libraries to represent the unique sociological viewpoints of European countries. Currently only provides info for Austria, Ireland, and Turkey.
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research: The world's largest archive of computerized social science data.
• Research Sources for the Social Sciences: Wide variety of links to an enormous array of subjects within the social sciences -- demography, women's studies, anthropology, law and more.
• Resources for methods in evaluation and social research: Free resources for methods that focus on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods
• Sociological Data Archive : Prague - The Sociological Data Archive at the Institute of Sociology in Prague is a library of computerised data files from Czech sociological data surveys.
• Sociological Tour through Cyberspace: General sociology resources, links to information on theory, methods and statistics, and other subject areas of the field.