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Research and Writing
The Art of Writing Proposals
www.ssrc.org/fellowships/art_of_writing_proposals
Citations and References - Sociologists usually use the Chicago or ASR style
http://www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc190.02/asr.html
Writing Sociology Papers
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/Overvu.html
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/sociology.html
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/soc-sciences/sociology.html
Careers
American Sociological Association (ASA) Website
http://www.asanet.org/
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Statistics and Databases
This web site allows users to navigate through statistics that are publicly available from more than 100 Federal agencies.
http://www.fedstats.gov
Guide to Census Research provides information about the population from the Decennial Census that has been taken every ten years since 1790. Maintained by the staff at the UCSD Social Sciences Data Collection.
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sshl/guides/course-subject-guides/census-research/2000.html
U.S. Census 2000 search-and-retrieval database.
http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html
U.S. Census Bureau Fact Finder - source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences - trends in the well-being of American Youth
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/youthindicators/
The Princeton's Survey Research Center was founded in 1992 with a grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this site aims to be a desktop information system for individuals involved in survey research. It succeeds in its objective to contain "everything useful on the Web for the practice of survey research."
http://www.princeton.edu/~psrc/
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the federal government's principal fact-finding agency in the field of labor economics and statistics. It collects, processes, analyzes and disseminates important data to the public, government, business, and labor. It is updated monthly.
http://stats.bls.gov
The U.S. Census Bureau has a user-friendly, high quality, and comprehensive web site.
http://www.census.gov
The Dismal Scientist site is a good reference for many different data concerning economic information and analysis. This site includes the regional analysis of the economy, including interesting thoughts about the economy and forecasts for the future.
http://www.dismal.com
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 200 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook
SOCIOLOGY JOURNALS AND RELEVANT SITES
Founded as a nonprofit scientific publisher dedicated to providing critical reviews of current research literature. Articles in Annual Reviews Sociology are grouped in general classifications, such as social progress, urban and rural s ociology, and historical sociology. Articles tend to be less quantitative than articles published in the American Sociological Review. A commitment to provide analysis of timely issues is evident in recent articles concerning environmental sociology, white-collar crime, and family violence.
http://www.annurev.org/individuals/index.aspx
The Social Science Research Network is an interesting entry into the world of electronic newspapers. It offers the full test of over 150 papers from all over the world, as well as citations from magazines, books, and television and radio transcripts.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayAbstractSearch.cfm
The Christian Science Monitor's archives go back to January 1980 and are free. Than't right: no registration, no nothing, and you get full text as well. The archives don't contain the entire paper; rather, there are "stories of interest," to quote from the help pages. The Monitor, which runs fewer articles than most major papers, is known for the breadth of its international coverage.
http://www.csmonitor.com
The Institute for Global Communications has five online communities of activists and organizations: PeaceNet, EcoNet, AntiRacismNet, and WomensNet. These internet sites are gateways to articles, headlines, features, and weblinks on progressive issues.
http://www.igc.org/
The Electronic Policy Network contains information concerning national policy and politics. http://organizerscollaborative.org/
Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center is an up-to-date, universal guide to the assortment of cultural studies resources and information on the World Wide Web.
http://www.popcultures.com/
Developed by Michael C. Kearl (Trinity University, San Antonio), this site is an invitation to the thoughtful exploration and research in sociology. To create a "theatre of ideas," the tour begins with general sociological links, followed by links to the resources for theory construction; data sets; materials on research methods and statistics; resources on writing the research paper; and finally, selected sites in cognate subject areas.
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/
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Library Encyclopedias and References
Encyclopedia of social theory / editor George Ritzer.
Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2005. (2 vols.) Reference HM425 .E47 2004.
A Dictionary of sociology / edited by Gordon Marshall.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Reference HM17 .C66 1998.
Sociology : a guide to reference and information sources / Stephen H. Aby.
Eaglewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1997. Reference HM51 .A24 1997.
Encyclopedia of sociology / Edgar F. Borgatta, editor-in-chief, Marie L. Borgatta, managing editor.
New York : Macmillian, 1992. (4 vols.) Reference HM17 .E5 1991.
Key sociological thinkers / edited by Rob Stones.
New York : New York University Press, 1998. Reference HM51 .K43 1998.
Dictionary of the social sciences / edited by Craig Calhoun.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. Reference H41 .D53 2002.
International encyclopedia of the social sciences. David L. Sills, editor
Sills, David L. [New York] Macmillan [1968]. (17 vols.) Reference H40 .A2 I5
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Specialized Areas
Institute for Research on World Systems
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php
Established in 1994 and supported by the Australian National Library, the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library provides an authoritative, large-scaled subject-oriented scholarly guide to Internet resources in the field of Asian Studies
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Produced by the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, and by both the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this site seems assured of both reliability of content and continued development and stability.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html
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Qualitative Research
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu
Many Pasts, First Person Accounts
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts
H-Oral History
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist
Mississippi Oral History Program
http://www.usm.edu/msoralhistory/about.php
Oral History Interviews of Latino Artists (Conducted for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/oralhist/oralhist.htm
Oral History Online! University of California at Berkeley
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/
Oral History Projects by Subject
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist/projects.html
Oral History Research Center, Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
http://cds.aas.duke.edu
The Papers of African American Artists and Additional Collections and Oral History
Interviews at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org
"Using Photographs to Cosntruct a Narrative"
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu
Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent
Will The Circle Be Unbroken? An Audio History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Communities
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol3/circle/circle-OLD.html
Human Rights Organizations and Violence Against Women Population Report on Ending Violence against Women, Lori Heise
http://www.jhuccp.org/pressroom/2000/01-20.shtml
Women's Human Rights: An Introduction By Charlotte Bunch and Samantha Frost
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Bibliography and Resource List
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/kit06/biblio.pdf
Heise, Lori, Mary Ellsberg and Megan Gottemoeller. (1999) Population Reports: Ending Violence Against Women, Baltimore, Maryland: Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Population Information Program. Contact: CHANGE, 6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 910, Takoma Park, Maryland 20912, USA.
http://www.genderhealth.org
Center for Health and Gender Equity
http://www.genderhealth.org/index.php?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948. Also available translated into over 300 different languages.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
National Domestic Violence Hotline
http://www.ndvh.org/
Afkhami, Mahnaz and Haleh Vaziri. (1996) Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies, Bethesda, Maryland, USA: Sisterhood is Global Institute. Contact: Sisterhood is Global Institute, 1200 Atwater, Suite 2, Montreal, QC, Canada H3Z 1X4
http://www.sigi.org
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Religion
Considered to be one of the very best religion sites. It has lots for many religions: religious texts, libraries, psychology and sociology of religion, ethics and moral values, biblical studies, comparative religion.
http://virtualreligion.net/vri/
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