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Sociology Resources

The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.

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Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

http://vector.cshl.org/eugenics/

This site is a collaborative effort of several archives to make available the records of the American Eugenics Movement. "Virtual exhibits (using the Flash Player plugin) introduce the key events, persons, and social conditions that contributed to the development of eugenics." The archives is searchable.

Author: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--20th Century History

Science & Technology--Life Sciences--Genetics

Social Sciences--Sociology

Inequality.org

http://www.inequality.org/

This site, created by a network of journalists, writers and researchers, features "news, information and expertise on the divide in income, wealth and health" in the United States. This Web site explores the gaps between the rich and poor that are usually ignored by the media. It is meant to serve as "astorehouse of information, comment, and original thinking about theincreased material and socioeconomic differences among us, and about theimplications of this trend in such areas as health, work life, the coherence of communities, and the workings of democratic government."

Author:

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Sociology

Social Sciences--Social Issues and Social Welfare

Keywords: Socioeconomic; Poverty; Wealth; Rich; Poor

Psybersite

http://www.muohio.edu/psybersite/index.htx

This site analyzes the social psychological aspects of modern behaviors through essays and tutorials created by advanced undergraduate and graduate students at Miami University (Ohio), providing an interesting look at today's society.

Author:

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Psychology

Social Sciences--Sociology

Resources for Social Researchers

http://www.soc.umn.edu/~edwards/soclinks.htm

This site provides a variety of links useful to anyone interested in the field of sociology. Links include things like publications, data information, research organizations, graduate student information sites, univeristy and departments of sociology, media news sites, and other social science sites of interest.

Author: Kevan Edwards (edwards@atlas.socsci.umn.edu)

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Sociology

Social Psychology Network (SPN)

http://www.socialpsychology.org/

A gateway site with links to a variety of resources in the field of social psychology. Includes links to sites on specific social psychology topics, graduate programs, organizations, professional journals, teaching resources and more.

Author: Scott Plous (splous@wesleyan.edu)

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Psychology

Social Sciences--Sociology

Keywords: Social psychology; Research; Study; Graduate programs

Social, Economic and Political Change

http://gsociology.icaap.org/

An annotated listing of links to information about large scale long-term political, economic and social systems change at the national and international level. This site links to sites with data, theory, national profiles, history, research, course syllabi, and other useful information.

Author: Gene Shackman

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Economics

Social Sciences

Social Sciences--Sociology

Keywords: Social Systems Theory; Globalization

Sociology Resources on the Internet

http://www.lib.vt.edu/subjects/soci/

This site, put together by the library at Virginia Tech is a comprehensive resource for finding sociology-related information on the internet. It lists associations and organizations, discussion groups and listservs, electronic journals and newsletters, social theory resources, and World Wide Web starting points to help you on your way.

Author: Bradley Nash, Jr. (bnash@vt.edu)

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Sociology

Keywords: Resources

A Sociology Timeline from 1600

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/timeline.html

A clickable time line of events in the history of sociology. You can click on people, events, names of essays or dates to find information and links. You can, for example, scroll to the list and see that Adam Smith was born on June 5, 1723 then click on his name to get information about him and his role in the history of sociology. Spans from 1600-1995

Author: Ed Stephan (stephan@cc.wwu.edu)

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Sociology

Tolerance.org

http://www.tolerance.org/

"The mission of Tolerance.org is to create a national community committed to human rights. Its goal is to awaken people of all ages to the problem of hate and intolerance, to equip them with the best tolerance ideas and to prompt them to act in their homes, schools, businesses and communities... Tolerance.org is structured for easy access to news, solutions and engaging exercises that teach and prompt personal soul-searching." Includes a map and profiles of hate groups in the United States; a map and profiles of U.S. human rights groups; Tolerance and Hate in the News; tests to explore your personal biases; a Civil Rights Movement exhibit; and ways to fight hate.

Author: Southern Poverty Law Center

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Sociology

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race

Social Sciences--Social Issues and Social Welfare--Human Rights

Keywords: Gender; Hate

World Systems Archive

http://csf.Colorado.EDU:80/wsystems/wsarch.html

"The purpose of this electronic archive is to promote the free exchange of information relevant to the study and understanding of the modern world-system and earlier intersocietal networks. The archive contains announcements, documents, books, data, biographical information, bibliographies, newletters, and the archives of conversations that have taken place on WSN. The archive is also the main repository of the Journal of World-Systems Research." The main page is a Web document, but all the subsections are links to gopher resources.

Author: Chris Chase-Dunn (chriscd@jhu.edu)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Economics

Law, Government & Political Science--Political Science--Foreign Policy & International Relations

Social Sciences--Sociology

Keywords: World Systems; Biographies; Bibliography

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