Sociology

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

Resources in this category:

The Association of Religion Data
http://www.thearda.com/

The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) provides quality data on American and international religion. Most of the data from the over 450 surveys, membership reports, and other data collections can be downloaded for free. All of the data can be previewed.

Inequality.org
http://www.demos.org/inequality/books.cfm

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 "a storehouse of information, comment, and original thinking about the increased material and socioeconomic differences among us, and about the implications of this trend in such areas as health, work life, the coherence of communities, and the workings of democratic government."

National Atlas of the United States
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a map is worth ten thousand." Explore hundreds of United States maps, including dynamic maps of invasive species and volcanoes. View and print maps for agriculture, biology, boundaries, climate, environment, geology, government, history, people, transportation and water, or make your own map!

Psybersite
http://www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/

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.

Social Psychology Network
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.

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.

Sociology Resources on the Internet
http://www.sociology.org/content/vol001.003/nash.html

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.

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

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.

World Systems Archive
http://wsarch.ucr.edu/

"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.