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Sociology Librarian: Robert Ridinger
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815-753-1367
rridinger@niu.edu

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Public Opinion Polls	Professional Associations	Government Agencies
Social Work/Welfare on the Net	Research Centers

Web Resources

Justice Links

European Commission: Public Opinion
Hunger Study 2010 Hunger Study 2010
IllinoisAtlas.com
Improving the Lives of the Urban Poor
Making of America - The Making of America begins a digital library, created by the University of Michigan in cooperation with Cornell University and supported by the Mellon Foundation. The University of Michigan scanned 1,600 books and ten journals from their own library. This site is easy to navigate and has advanced features such as three search modes (Boolean, proximate words, and a regular index structured by author, title, and subject).
Migration Information Source - Migration data from around the world. Generate tables, create graphs, follow trends. Find out who is going where and how migration is shaping social, political, demographic, and economic futures country by country.
Pew Global Attitudes Project
Pew Internet and American Life Project
PollingReport.com
PovertyNet - A World Bank web site developed to provide resources for people and organizations working to understand and alleviate poverty. Cultural factors generating and maintaining poverty, analysis of its social impact and strategies for its limitation and reduction are profiled.
Research Resources for the Social Sciences - The site is well organized into 18 different categories, including general resources, reference materials, data archives, and news resources. Each category provides links to web sites including e-journals, listservs, and full-text resources. Another useful category, "Aggressive Pattern Searches," provides links to information about searching the web, effective search strategies, and guides to using Internet search engines.
SeniorNet
Social Psychology Network - This site's main menu provides links in three broad categories: social psychology, general psychology, and Wesleyan University (the home of the site). Under social psychology, one will find links to a wide variety of topics such as prejudice and discrimination, social influence, and interpersonal relationships. General psychology links include sites offering useful information about psychology as a career, various professional organizations, rankings of graduate programs in psychology, Internet research tools, and sources of funding for research.
Sociometrics
SocioSite - Social Science Information System based at the University of Amsterdam
Socnet - "World index of sociology courses wholly or in part on the Internet"
Southern Poverty Law Center - The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded a quarter of a century ago for the purpose of winning equal rights for minorities and poor people through legal action. Today the Center continues to pursue action against those who would attack the freedoms of others, while also promoting tolerance, understanding, and justice through education and publicity. This site is well organized and leads the user to a wealth of material related to civil rights and civil liberties.
SSRN: Social Science Research Network
State of World Population 2008
The ARDA: Association of Religion Data Archives
The Mead Project: Foundational Documents in Sociological Social Psychology
The Rise of New Immigrant Gateways - [pdf]
The SocioWeb: A Sociological Resource Center - A guide to twelve types of data, including surveys and statistics, electronic journals in sociology, professional associations, and "topical research."
UC Atlas of Global Inequality

Journals

Annual Review of Sociology On-line

Public Opinion Polls

Professional Associations

American Sociological Association - Founded in 1905, this is the chief professional organization for sociologists of all subdisciplines within the United States. Its emphasis is on providing the application of sociological analysis for the benefit of society. Useful features include the "code of ethics" and a list of publicly available data sets.
Association of Black Sociologists
Criminal Justice Journalists
Family Violence Prevention Fund
International Network for Social Network Analysis - This site provides a listing of journals in this field and links to software programs used in social network analysis.
International Sociological Association - Founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO, this organization seeks to provide international communication and cooperation in sociological research. Its research committees cover 53 areas in sociology. A list of relevant periodicals is also featured, some with access to back issues.
Justice Research and Statistics Association
Mid-South Sociological Association - Useful for the variety of links to specific subfields provided, links to back issues of Sociological Spectrum.
North Central Sociological Association - Covering seven states and the province of Ontario, this is the premier professional group for the sociologists of the Midwest. A listserver here serves as a regional discussion forum.
Pacific Sociological Association - Established in 1929, this organization provides a professional forum for sociologists in the western United States, Alberta and British Columbia. An index to current and back issues of The Pacific Sociologist is provided.
Society for Applied Sociology - An international organization founded in 1978 for social scientists involved in applying sociological knowledge in a variety of environments. An electronic newsletter is available.
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Focused on qualitative, especially interactionist research, a useful feature of this site for graduate students is the section "Teaching Symbolic Interaction."
Sociological Association of Aotearoa, (New Zealand) - Most useful as a source for following professional discussions and research in the region of the Pacific.
Sociologists for Women in Society
Southern Sociological Society
Western Criminology Review

Government Agencies

Social Work/Welfare on the Net

Grassroots: Social Science Search - A searchable database with over 1,500 reviewed Web sites of interest to social work students and practitioners. A subject arrangement of the sites is also included with topics such as field, research, practice, and more.
Pat McClendon's Clinical Social Work Page - A friendly and informative site that is maintained by a graduate of the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville. This page is a good place to begin exploring social work on the Internet since it is well organized into various subject areas.
Social Work Library at Columbia
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Immigrant Welfare Use
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889- 1963