SOCIOLOGY WEB HAWG

Internet Search Engines

Finding Information on the Internet--Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley. Excellent.

Beyond the Web--Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley. Also an excellent resource.

Alta Vista

Lycos

Go.com f/k/a InfoSeek

Yahoo

WebCrawler

Hot Bot--Parallel search engine.

Dog Pile--an unsavory name, but effective search engine.

Google

Internet Resources

Sociological Gateways on the WWW--Excellent links to Europe and America

On-Line Newspapers.com---f/k/a Web Wombat

LSU Libraries: Sociology References--a solid collection of online internet resources for students of sociology.

LIBDEX: Library Web-Based OPACS, f/k/a WEBCATS

U.S. Library of Congress

National Library of Canada

Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries

Infomine--Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

BUBL Link--an excellent collection of quality internet sites at the University of Bath, U.K.

Joint Information Systems Resource Guide to the Social Sciences (ESRC)---collected jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Commission (JISC) of the United Kingdom. It features annotated links to internet sites sorted by subject matter, including bibiographic and data services.

Digital Librarian--Librarian's Choice of the Web. ---A collection of selected internet resources by Margaret Vail Anderson. Recommended.

FEDSTATS/Guide to Federal Statistical Sites

FedWeb Locator & Other Federal Sites--A joint project of The Center for Information Law & Policy at Villanova and the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent.

The State Web Locator---A joint project of The Center for Information Law & Policy at Villanova and the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent.

GPO Access

GPO Access Finding Aids

Doc-Law Web---a gateway to Federal government internet resources and government related material, by subject, and organizational chart links to various agency publications by the Washburn University School of Law.

The Avalon Project---at the Yale Law School. It compiles documents of law, history and diplomacy in the 18th to 20th centuries. A valuable historical and human rights resource.

LibWeb: Libraries on the Web--University of Berkeley

The SocioWeb

SocioRealm---a good collection of general sociological articles and internet sites.

Social Sciences WWW Virtual Library

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology

WCSU List of Sociological Net Resources

Research Resources for Social Sciences

Prof. Kearl's Sociological Tour of Cyberspace--this is an excellent and well-known site for sociology links by Prof. Kearl of Trinity Univ.

SocioSite---This is one of the great sociology sites of the Internet, maintained by Albert Benschop of the University of Amsterdam. This site should be visited by everyone with an interest in sociology. It has world-wide links. Recommended!

UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet

Sociolog.com: Dept. of Sociology Web Links--A very good collection of internet links maintained by Julian Dierkes .

INVITATION TO SOCIOLOGY

The World of the Sociologist--by Dr. John Lamberton of Transtrak.com

What is Culture?---Contributions by Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, Clifford Geertz and John H. Bodley.

Sociology FAQ--U.W.-Superior

"Careers in Sociology," by W. Richard Stephens, Jr.

American Sociological Association Code of Ethics

ON-LINE NEWSPAPERS:

The New York Times

The Washington Post

The Chicago Tribune

The Los Angeles Times

Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune

Boston Globe

Detroit Free Press

San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner

The Wall Street Journal

The Village Voice

Academe Today/The on line version of The Chronicle of Higher Education

The London Times Higher Education Supplement

The Daily Telegraph--London

On-Line Newspapers.com---f/k/a Web Wombat

On-Line Magazines/Journals

National Geographic

The Smithsonian Magazine

Scientific American

Nature

Science Magazine---weekly publication of the Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science.

U.S. News & World Report

The Nation On-Line

Commentary

The Social Science Review

The Annual Reviews/Social Science Publications

Demographic Research--a peer reviewed online journal by the Max Planek Institute for Demography in Rostock, Germany.

The American Sociological Review

Sociological Research On-Line--This will be subscriber based effective 08/98.

Social Science Paper Publisher--an electronic journal of the social sciences.

The Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality--a peer reviewed electronic journal.

Current Issues in Education--a peer reviewed electronic journal published by Arizona State Univ. and the College of Education.

REGIONAL COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Beloit College Library/BELCAT

WebVoyage: UW Colleges On-Line Catalog

WISCAT--Online catalog, bibliographic database for Wisconsin. It contains 5.9 million records from 1,137 Wisconsin Libraries

BadgerLink--this is a handy link to proprietary databases courtesy of the Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction. Several databases such as EBSCOhost and Wilson Web are available through BadgerLink, for Wisconsin State residents.

UW Madison Campus Libraries

The UW Madison Electronic Library

UW Madison's WWW Library Links--valuable links to libraries of the Big Ten, University of Wisconsin system libraries, and world-wide links too.

Minnesota Libraries--Statewide Connection and Networks to Minnesota colleges, universities, governmental agencies, private colleges, public libraries and special libraries. This is a gem of a collection. Recommended.

COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SOURCES

Community College Index of Community College Web Sites/Searchable Index of 1,302 Community Colleges

College/University Homepages/Alpha. listings

Map of Location of University Wisconsin Campuses

WISINFO/Directory of U.W. System Information

UniGuide to U.S. Universities

HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIOLOGY

The Timeline of Sociology from 1600--by Prof. Ed Stephan

SocioSite: Famous Sociologists

Classical Sociological Theory--Univ. of Chicago. This is a collection of notes assembled by students studying for qualifying examinations.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Rousseau's Social Contract

The Durkheim Pages--Prof. Robert Jones of Univ. of IL

Max Weber---See the Social Therory Links from SocioRealm

John Stuart Mill

George's Page: George Herbert Mead---Brock University project to collect the works of George H. Mead.

The Sociology of Knowledge--Univ. of Colorado at Denver School of Education, by Martin Ryder.

The Progressive Sociologists Network--Radical and Marxist

Marxists.org Internet Archive

The Emma Goldman Papers at U.C.-Berkeley--Radical feminist

METHODOLOGY

When it comes to the internet as a tool for teaching sociology and sociological methods, hats-off to Prof. Bill Trochim of Cornell University. His site is remarkable for its quality, and breadth. Here are just a few links I suggest, and Prof. Trochim's figure promeniently:

Inductive/Deductive Reasoning--Prof. Trochim of Cornell Univ.

The Structure of Research, beginning with the Problem--Prof. Trochim

Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods--Cornell Univ. This is a must-visit-site for learning or teaching social research methodology and problem solving. Prof. Trochim has a"Knowledge Base" loaded with lots of links, lots of tips, and lots of guidelines. This is a remarkable site.

Prof. Kearl's Guide to Research Paper Preparation--Trinity University

The Protection of Human Subjects, and Guidelines for Conducting Research involving Human Subjects--the N.I.H.

RACE & ETHNICITY

What is Culture?---Contributions by Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, Clifford Geertz and John H. Bodley.

Race and Ethnic Studies Institute--at Texas A. & M.

Ethnic Studies--Univ. So. Calif.

Race and Ethnicity--Links from the Allyn & Bacon Publishing Company

Race and Ethnicity Link Index--Prof. M. Kearl of Trinity Univ.

Race/Affirmative Action Links-- a collection of readings from the Atlantic Monthly Magazine Archives

American Studies Web--by David Phillips of Georgetown Univ.

African Links of Univ. of Penn.

WWW Virtual Library of African Studies

Center for African Studies--Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Index on Africa--annotated links compiled by the Norwegian Council for Africa

Yale Africa Guide Interactive

Black/African Related Resources--Univ. of Penn.

Archives of African American Music & Culture

The National Civil Rights Museum

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library

Stop-the-Hate, f/k/a Bizarre Pages--An interesting compendium of Militia and Hate Group Web Sites in the U.S. compiled by Stop-the-Hate

Militia Watchdog---monitoring the extreme right-wing of America.

Hatewatch--combating online bigotry.

Affirmative Action and Diversity Project--the English Dept. of the Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara. This is an interesting and relatively well balanced compendium of view points and links to affirmative action issues and positions. It is not an advocacy site, and it has lots of information on the situation in California.

HUMAN RIGHTS:

Amnesty International--Information about the state of human rights throughout the world, and a report of 151 countries documenting acts of violence.

Amnesty International Annual Report: 2002

International Relations Library Resources---Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Univ.

Human Rights Library--Univ. of Minnesota.

Human Rights Web

Human and Constitutional Rights--Columbia University. A searchable database of documents and laws from around the world dealing with human rights.

INCORE--Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity with Regional Internet Guides. It has information about specific ethnic groups, countries and regions.

Inter-American Human Rights Database--Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, the American University.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN Human Rights Research Guide--the UN Dag Hammarskjold Library. Recomended.

Democracy, Human Rights & Labor: Human Rights Reports---U.S. Dept. of State

Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the USA--by Human Rights Watch. Recommended.

War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity--Genocide--by the Univ. of Minn.

Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's 'Untouchables'--by Human Rights Watch.

The Cambodian Genocide Program

Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights--by Stefan Schmitt of Florida State Univ.

CIVIL RIGHTS:

Civil Rights Law, compiled by Cornell Univ.

The U.S. Dept. of Justice Americans with Disabilities Act Homepage

American Civil Liberities Union (ACLU)

U.S. Civil Rights Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice

Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute

Center for Equal Opportunity---a thinktank for the promotion of colorblind equality and racial harmony.

Race/Affirmative Action Links-- a collection of readings from the Atlantic Monthly Magazine Archives

Employment Discrimination Materials, compiled by Cornell University

MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY:

Children's Civil Rights, Cornell University Legal Information Institute

Child Custody, Cornell University Legal Information Institute

Family Law: 'Lectric Law Library's Lawcopedia

Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement

State Links/Office of Child Support Enforcement

USDA: Food and Nutrition Services--including the Food Stamp and WIC programs

Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Inc.

Research Forum on Children, Families and the New Federalism---by the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Columbia School of Public Health.

KidsCount Data Online---by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It contains demographic, education, social and economic characteristics of children in America. Profiles by state and national data is also available.

My Virtual Reference Desk (MVRD): Family Matters

Cybergrrl Safety Net, f/k/a Domestic Violence Materials by Safety Net

The Australian Institute of Family Studies

Association for Population/Family Planning (APLIC-I) Libraries and Information Centers International

CRIME & CRIMINAL JUSTICE:

Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, compiled by Cornell University Law School

Supreme Court Decisions/FindLaw

Criminal Law and Procedure: The 'Lectric Law Library's Lawcopedia.

The Criminal Justice System: The 'Lectric Law Library's Lawcopedia

Drugs and Alcohol: The 'Lectric Law Library's Lawcopedia. The emphasis is upon the U.S. drug laws, policies and related matters.

Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP)

The Prison Privatization Research Site, Univ. of Conn.--Dr. Charles Logan of the Univ. of Conn.

The Sentencing Project

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

FBI: Uniform Crime Reports, 1995-2002---available from the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the FBI in .pdf format. It features 17,000 city, county and state law enformcement agencies data and tables.

Justice Information Center: National Criminal Justice Reference Center

National Criminal Justice Reference Center Abstracts Database--searchable. Summaries of over 140,000 criminal justice publications from federal, state and local governments; research institutions; journals; and unpublished sources.

The Royal Tai Police: National Police of Thailand

The Metropolitan Police on the Net

Office of International Criminal Justice

International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)

Bureau of Justice Statistics

NCJRS Statistics Sites and Additional Resources

Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention

Uniform Crime Reports---4 county data files from the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center at the Univ. of Virginia.

Correctional Populations in the US, 1996--by the Bureau of Justice Statistics

Uniform Crime Reports Preliminary Crime Statistics 1998 (.pdf format)--by the FBI.

Facts about Violence Among Youth and Violence in Schools--CDC, April 21, 1999.

Criminal Victimization and Perceptions of Community Safety in 12 Cities, 1998--by the BJS.

Serial Killer Hit List---this is an eery site, especially if you have multi-media.

Street Gang Dynamics

The National Youth Gang Center Page

An Urban Ethnography of Latino Street Gangs in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

The F.B.I. Homepage

U.S. Dept. of Justice Homepage

Police Resources, f/k/a COPNET

Officer.com, f/k/a The Police Officer's Internet Directory--created and maintained by a Boston Police Dept. Cop. It is well-recognized on the Net, and has lots of law enforcement information.

The Corrections Connection

Crime Blogf/k/a APB Online--Police and crime news online.

Prisoner's Dictionary--an interesting and colorful collection of prison slang ("argot").

Cecil Greek's Law Enforcement Agencies Links--Federal, State, and local jurisdictions.

Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the USA--by Human Rights Watch. Recommended.

Federal Criminal Justice Links, by Cecil Greek of the F.S.U. School of Criminology--Cecil Greek's internet pages are well-known among criminal justice researchers, teachers, and students.

Australian Institute of Criminology

Canadian Criminal Justice Resource Page

TRACCC--Transnational Crime and Corruption Center--American University

POPULATION/U.S.

The Statistical Abstract of the U.S. 2001-2002, Census Bureau

The Statistical Abstract of the U.S., 1995-2000--by the U.S. Census Bureau. It features over 1,700 tables and graphic summaries and allows for easy comparison to the 1995, 1996 and 1997 online editions.

The County City Book, the Census Bureau

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book---the US Census Bureau

Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Places in the U.S.: 1790 to 1990---U.S. Census Bureau Working Paper 27.

U.S. Bureau of the Census

U.S. Census State Data Centers

Missouri Census Data Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Office of Sociolgical and Economic Data Analysis (OSEDA), Univ. of Missouri

Interactive Tutorial of Census Data, Univ. of Missouri

Citation Style for Census Internet Information, U.S. Bureau of the Census

U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER Files Homepage

The U.S. Census Bureau GAZETTEER

The Population Studies Center, Univ. of Michigan

The Demography Homepage--Excellent source of information re: the Economic Census; County Business Patterns; County City Data and more.

The Princeton Office of Population Research--datasets of American, European and world fertility.

Population Index on the Web---joint project of Princeton Office of Population Research and Population Index. The database has 40,243 citations, 1986-1998. You can search by author, subject, geographic region, year or title.

Geospatial & Statistical Data Center--at the Univ. of Virginia; formerly known as the Univ. of Virginia Social Science Data Center.

Louisiana Population Data Center--at LSU.

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (ISN)

POPULATION/INTERNATIONAL:

International Statistical Agencies, U.S. Census Bureau

The CIA's World Fact Book 2002

The World Bank

InfoNation---the UN database of statistical data for member states of the United Nations.

Population Research Institute, Penn State Univ./Africa, Caribbean; Latin America. Excellent links to North America and the world.

Population Research Catalogue/Data Archive--Penn. State Population Research Institute.

Asia-Pacific Migration Network (APMAN)

Forced Migrations Projects and Refugee Related Sites

Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO)--Sweden

International Organization for Migration

WWW Virtual Library of Migration and Ethnic Relations

Council of European Social Science Data Archives--Electronic data for social science education and research. It allows a broadcast search of up to eleven social data catalogs all over the world, but primarily in Europe.

Central Eurasia Project--a resources page on each country of Eurasia. Recommended.

Mass Behavior in Post-Communist Societies--by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP) at the Univ. of Strathclyde in Glasgow. It compiles an overview of 11 Russian regions from official government statitics and public opinion polls

WWW Virtual Library. of Demography and Population Studies---It has numerous international links to population studies and datasets.

The Census of India--a well organized and interesting site with the demographic profile of one of the world's most populous countries (975 million people and growing). By the Office of Registrar General and Census Commission.

The UK Census of Population Programme--United Kingdom

The Pan American Health Organization Country Health Profiles, 1998, 1999---This is a great online source of demographic and health information/statistics about each country of the Americas.

UN Population Information Network (POPIN)---Demography, population and family planning.

POPIN Electronic Library--Bibliography and biobliography database worldwide.

PopNet--the Population Reference Bureau

CIESIN--Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia Univ. It features a global population database and much more.

African Population Database Documents (NCGIA)--the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the Univ. of California at Santa Barbara.

ECONOMICS/LABOR

Bureau of Economic Analysis

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

U.S. Dept. of Labor

U.S. Dept. Labor Statistics & Data

Economics & Statistics Administration

WebEc/Economics on the WWW

Trends in Developing Economies, the World Bank

Economic Policy Institute

Institute for Research on Poverty--U.W. Madison

Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA)

LaborNet

Federal Labor Relations Authority

Cornell Univ. School of Industrial and Labor Relations E-Archive---downloadable copies of commissioned reports and executive summaries dealing with "glass ceiling" issues in the work place. It is hosted by the Cornell Univ. School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Recommended.

WorkNet@ILR: In the Work Place--Hosted by the Cornell Univ. School of Industrial and Labor Relations. It features links to "hot topics" in the study of work and organizations

National Institute of Economic and Social Research of the UK--the National Institute of Economic and Social Research of the UK. It contains access to data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey of British workplaces.

WorkIndex.com---a searchable database of reviewed internet sites dealing with many issues and topics in work and industry. A joint partnership of Cornell Univ. and Human Resources Executives. Recommended.

Western Pathology Consultants, Inc. (WPCI)---a Substance Abuse Testing Service for Employers. This is a burgeoning business, and a hot topic in current studies of the modern work place.

CyberPicket Line--including a World Trade Union Directory.

Working Stiff: Work Place Diaries (NPR)--an interesting collection of diaries of the everyday worker in America, plus feature articles about such varied topics as drug testing in the work place, etc. It's officially "closed for business" but the internet site is still active for the time being.

HEALTH & ILLNESS

National Center for Health Statistics

National Center for Infectious Diseases

Travelers Health/Center for Disease Control (CDC)

The Pan American Health Organization Country Health Profiles, 1999---This is a great online source of demographic and health information/statistics about each country of the Americas.

Scientific Data/Statistics from the CDC

The Heilbrunn Center for Population and Family Health-- School of Public Health at Columbia University

World Health Organization--Excellent links to world health and epidemiological records

World Health Organization (WHO) Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, f/k/a The Health Care Financing Administration---administers Medicare and Medicaid benefits in the U.S. See the Medicare Chart Book which gives an overview of Medicare and 39 million beneficiaries, health care spending in America, and managed care.

Hospital Web---a collection of hospitals with internet pages.

HIV/AIDS Information--National Library of Medicine.

Global Medic

PDR Net--The Physicians' Desk Reference by Medical Economics Co., Inc. Free online access, but you must register to use the resource.

Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines--Univ. of California at San Francisco.

MedLine/The National Library of Medicine--formerly this was a subscriber-based service, but the National Library of Medicine believes MedLine is such an important source of medical information, it offers it free of charge.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy--this is one of the best known published sources of medical information about illness and disease. The current version is under revision, but selected portions of other Merck publications are available.

Toxicology and Environmental Health--the National Library of Medicine.

Healthfinder--U.S. Government links

Emory MedWeb--Emory University Health Science Center Library.

Health Web

Cities & Communities:

Policy Sci.com, f/k/a The Almanac of Politics and Government-Online---It features information about world politics and the United States, in particular.

The County and City Data Book, U.S. Census Bureau

State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)--Allows the extraction of customized datasets of US cities from statistics gathered by the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Bureau of the Census; and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The State of the Cities Report, 1999--by HUD.

The Urban Information Center, Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis

The Urban Institute

U.S. Bureau of the Census

ECONOMIC/SOCIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT OR ANALYSIS:

The Whitehouse

THOMAS/U.S. Library of Congress--The definitive legislative source of information and text about Congressional activities and bills.

Welfare Information Network--A clearinghouse for information, policy, analysis and technical assistance in welfare reform. Other WWW links are available.

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)--features many interesting articles about various social and economic policy issues.

Ethics Updates: Literature on Poverty and Welfare--by Lawrence M. Hinman. A good collection of articles featured in the Boston Review, New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and more. Recommended.

Ethics Updates---by Lawrence M. Hinman. Ethical and applied ethics from current literature concerning sociological topics such as abortion, racism, gender, the death penalty, euthanasia, and more. Articles are drawn from the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review. Highly recommended.

The Codes of Ethics Online Project--by the Illinois Institute of Technology. It features over 850 codes of ethics of professional organizations and associations.

The Buying of the Presidency 2000--The Center for Public Integrity has collected a wonderful resource detailing the financial contributions of top patrons to each presidential candidate in the race for the Presidency, 2000.

The Brookings Institution

The Democratic Leadership Council and Progressive Policy Institute

The Heritage Foundation

The Economic Policy Institute

The Electronic Policy Network

RAND: A Nonprofit Institution that helps Improve Public Policy through Research and Analysis

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)--a public policy research institute that covers every major geographic region of the world; a directory of CSIS experts and analysis of current events.

AACTE Education Policy Clearinghouse--by the American Assoc. of Colleges for Teacher Education. This database helps researchers locate information about educational policy issues at the city, state, regional and federal level.

Institute for Policy Research--Univ. of Cincinnati.

Public Policy Institute of California

The Pulse: A Consumer's Guide to Public Opinion Data on the Web--by the Economic Policy Institute

SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENTS/RELATED PROGRAMS:

WISCONSIN STATE UNIVERSITIES

Dept. of Rural Sociology, UW-Madison

Dept. of Sociology, UW-Madison

Dept. of Sociology, UW-Green Bay

Dept. of Sociology, UW-Whitewater

Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, UW-Parkside

Dept. of Social Sciences, UW-Stout

Dept. of Sociology, UW-River Falls

Dept. of History, Politics, & Society, UW-Superior

Dept. of Sociology and Archaeology--UW-LaCrosse

Dept. of Sociology, UW-Platteville

Dept. of Criminal Justice, UW-Platteville

Dept. of Sociology, UW-Oshkosh

Dept. of Sociology, UW-Stevens Point

Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, UW-Eau Claire

Dept. of Sociology, UW-Milwaukee

The Land Tenure Center, UW-Madison

Center for Demography and Ecology, UW-Madison

The Institute for Research on Poverty, UW-Madison

U.W. Survey Center, UW-Madison

Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, UW-Madison

OTHER UNIVERSITIES

Dept. of Sociology, Northwestern University

Dept. of Sociology, Princeton University--A very nice collection of internet sites rated by the Argus Clearinghouse. The site is maintained jointly by Blanche Anderson.

Office of Population Research, Princeton University--A premier demography site.

Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Iowa

WWW Virtual Library of Sociology Institutions and Departments in the U.S. --a comprehensive list of academic sociology departments maintained by Julian B. Dierkes for the WWW Virtual Library of Sociology.

School of Criminology, Florida State University

Dept. of Sociology, Beloit College

Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton College

Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Chicago

Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Minnesota

SOCIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS

Scholarly Societies Project: Sociology---Univ. of Waterloo

American Sociological Association

The British Sociological Association Postgraduate Forum

Pacific Sociological Association

The Midwest Sociological Association

Mid-South Sociological Association

The Southern Sociological Society

The Rural Sociological Society

Society for Applied Sociology

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

The Center for the Future of Children

The Russell Sage Foundation

The Population Reference Bureau

The International Sociological Association

The Critical Thinking Consortium

Social Science Research Council

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center for the Study of Group Processes--Univ. of Iowa

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research--Univ. of Connecticut.

The Gallup Organization--Princeton Univ.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITY

The Web HAWG is an internet jumpstation for Anthropological and Sociological on-line resources. However, all students are cautioned to remember that electronic media, while interesting and exciting forms of technology, are still evolving. The long and the short of it is that there is a lot of "junk" on the Net, some of it with little or no redeeming scholarly value. Internet users must always assess and discern the information, and consider the source. The internet is no substitute for hands-on library research and traditional methods of information gathering and assessment. I expect all my students to make the college library their first and last stop in information gathering.

The basic fundamental principles of academic research remain a duty of the student/researcher, among them, cite your sources. Internet citations are important for the same reasons as citations of traditional sources: You must know the foundation of knowledge on which your analysis and treatise is built, and readers have the right (and duty) to check your sources.

The citation form of electronic media sources is not universally accepted, but for the Internet, the basic acceptable form is:

Author, Title, (On-line), (Date, Date Retrieved), Available: protocol://host(port)/directory/subdirectory/file.name.

I suggest students consult the Citing Data Files and Internet Sourcesfor some useful guidelines on citations forms of electronic and internet media.

For comments, suggestions or additions to this web page, contact Prof. Philip Groth, UW-Rock County, 2909 Kellogg Avenue, Janesville, WI 53546, or e-mail him at pgroth@uwc.edu. Telephone: 608-758-6545.

Created 10-10-97 by Philip G. Groth and Janice Pierce. Last updated on 05/09/03. (c) copyright, 1997-2003 all rights reserved by the authors.

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