Department of Sociology
American History
George Mason University’s History Project http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Wm. Murray’s Cycles in U.S. History (great for time lines and other stuff)
http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/index.html
A Hypertext on American History (The Netherlands)
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/usa.htm
American Writers’ and Books About America Links
About De Tocqueville
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html
Anthropology
Anthropology journal archive (all articles, summary & clarity rating)
http://www.publicanthropology.org/index.htm
Canadian Sources
http://www.statcan.ca/start.html
Colombia
Ministry of Social Defense (crime & justice)
http://www.mindefensa.gov.co/
Crime and Justice Links (including United Nations)
Bounty Hunters
http://www.onworld.com/BHO/index.html
EUROPOL
http://www.europol.eu.int/content.htm?reports/ar99/en.htm
INTERPOL
http://www.interpol.int/
Racial Profiling
http://www.profilesininjustice.com/
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Source for Crime & Justice Studies
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://puborder.ncjrs.org/register/
Statistics on crime and justice data:
for United States
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
for Europe:
http://www.europeansourcebook.org/esb/
United Kingdom, Home Office
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/
United Nations Crime and Justice
http://www.uncjin.org/
United Nations Inter-Regional Crime and Justice Research Institute
http://www.unicri.it/index.htm
US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/
US federal justice statistics
http://fjsrc.urban.org/
Victimology
http://www.victimology.nl/
Other criminology websites
http://www.onworld.com/BHO/index.html
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cj.html
Education (statistics/ survey)
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/
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European Sources
European Union
http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm
European Social Science data
http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/
Civil Rights (watchdog organization: Statewatch)
http://www.statewatch.org/
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
http://www.osce.org/
Governments on Internet
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/sources.html
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Human & Civil Rights
http://www.hrw.org/
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/
European watchdog on police, courts, immigration
http://www.statewatch.org/
Italy
Data archive for social sciences, U. Milan
http://www.sociologia.unimib.it/sociodata/eng/home.htm
Minister of Justice
http://www.giustizia.it/
Italian government (sources)
http://www.italia.gov.it/
Labor / Occupational Data
US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/
Middletown Area Studies
Surveys of the Middletown area (Muncie, Indiana)
http://www.thearda.com/archive/MAS96an.html
Mexico
Judicial statistics & information
http://www.juridicas.unam.mx/
Federal Attorney General’s Office
http://www.pgr.gob.mx/
Mexico newspapers on the internet
http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/eMexpaper.html
Federal Secretary of Public Security
http://www.ssp.gob.mx/
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Population/Migration
Ameristat Journal
http://www.ameristat.org/
Stop Trafficking and Slavery
http://www.trafficked-women.org/main.html
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/
n on foreign born people in US) http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign.html
Population Reference Bureau Web Site
http://www.prb.org/prb/
Social Science Data Network (& The American Community Survey)
http://www.ssdan.net//
Migration Dialogue (University of California, modern immigration issues) http://migration.ucdavis.edu/
Center for Immigration Studies
http://www.cis.org/
Statue of Liberty symbolism
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LIBERTY/lady_frm.html
E Pluribus Unum
http://panther.bsc.edu/~shendley/interim98.htm
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Public Opinion Polls
(see also GSS and NES sites)
How to create an on-line survey:
http://www.createsurvey.com/
European Public Opinion “Eurobarometer”
http://www.gesis.org/en/data_service/eurobarometer/
The Gallop Polls On-line
http://www.gallup.com/index.html
Harris Poll:
http://vr.harrispollonline.com/register/
International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
http://www.issp.org/
Netherlands Survey Data
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/us/homepag.htm
The Public Agenda (lots of topics & polls)
http://www.publicagenda.org
University of California polls done in California:
http://gort.ucsd.edu/calpol/
World Value Survey
http://www.statcan.ca/start.html
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Religion
Surveys of religion in America http://www.thearda.com/datafiles_ix.html
Research Methods & Statistics
Content analysis resources
http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcom/
Great examples of statistical questions
http://www.marquette.edu/dept/comm/classes/comm203/awesxmpl.html
Simulations
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/simul/simul.htm
Logical fallacies
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/index.html
Jokes (alleged) about statistics (really – you have to see this one to believe it)
http://www.ilstu.edu/~gcramsey/Gallery.html
Qualitative Research Sources
http://osiris.colorado.edu/SOC/RES/qualist.html
Ethics in Science (or, why you should plagiarize this page)
http://www.chem.vt.edu/ethics/ethics.html
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Sociological Professional Associations
Alpha Kappa Delta (International Sociological Honor Society)
http://www3.uakron.edu/hefe/akd/akdhome.htm
American Sociological Association
http://www.asanet.org/
Eastern Sociological Society
http://www.essnet.org/updates.htm
Social Science Links
General Social Survey (GSS) Links:
For an online search of the GSS Annotated Bibliography go to http://www.soc.qc.edu/
Click on: Local Resources in Sociology: “General Social Survey Resources”
Then, click on: Online search of The GSS Annotated Bibliography
Then insert the KEYWORD of your choice.
Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the largest data archive in the world for data-based research on all kinds of topics. On the INTERNET go the following address:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
Once you are on the home page of ICPSR, go to the pull-down menu that says “title”. Click on it (or the arrow next to it). It will give you choices for your search of the archive.
National Election Survey (NES), an enormous archive of political and social data on Americans can be searched at : http://www.umich.edu/~nes/
National Opinion Research Center (NORC) (access to GSS data and tables:
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/
Social Science Links:
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/
U.S. Census Bureau Web Site
http://www.census.gov/
Public opinion polls archive at Roper Center, University of Connecticut (Take a look even though you can not search without a fee.
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
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Social Science sites
Yahoo’s sites:
http://dir.yahoo.com/social_science/data_collections/
University of Amsterdam (extensive sociology links)
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/index.html
Stratification/ Social Inequality
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (incomes over time)
http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid/
People Like Us: Humorous Companion to P Fussell’s book, Class.
http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/
Research on poverty
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
United Nations (Home page)
http://www.un.org/
Research on American tax system
http://www.taxfoundation.org
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U.S. Government
U.S. Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov/
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/
White House
http://www.whitehouse.net/index5.html
General Accounting Office
http://www.gao.gov/
United States (General Information)
Statistical Abstract of U.S.
http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract/
State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/smadb.html
County and City Data Book
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html
Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970
http://www.census.gov/mp/www/pub/gen/msgen11b.html
United Kingdom (government sources)
http://www.ukonline.gov.uk/