Sociology

Print Indexes

• Alternative Literature Index REF Al 3 .A27
  
• Alternative Press Index Indexes A13.A27
  
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature READY INDEX A1 .3 .R47
  

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks

• Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences REF H41.Y68 1999
  
• Dictionary of Quotations in Sociology REF HM 17.B37 1985
  
• Dictionary of Sociology REF HM 17.L392 2001
  
• Encyclopedia of American Social History REF HN 57.E58 1993
  
• Encyclopedia of Sociology REF HM 17.E5 2000
  
• Handbook of Social Psychology REF HM251 .H224 1998
  
• Social Science Encyclopedia REF H 41.S63 1996
  

Unless indicated otherwise, all of the above print resources are located at the O'Toole Library, Jersey City Campus.

Selected Internet Resources

• America's Adolescents: Are They Healthy? Links to a 2003 study on adolescent health from the National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC). Separate fact sheets on the demographics of children and adolescents, mortality, suicide, and substance abuse are included.
• American Sociological Association
• Americans and the World "a source of comprehensive information on US public opinion on international issues. The site includes The Digest, which provides comprehensive analyses of polling on various international topics." A shared project of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International Security Studies (CISSM) at the University of Maryland,
• DARE: Directory in Social Sciences Maintained by UNESCO, is a searchable international directory of over 11,000 references to institutions, specialists, and periodicals.
• Digital Atlas of New York City Dr. William A. Bowen of the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge, has created a demographic atlas of NYC that shows population and race, ancestry, income and poverty, adult educational attainment, household types, and commuters.
• Disability Social History Project News, history, historical profiles, and links to resources.
• Feminae Feminae (formerly the Medieval Feminist Index) is a database of journal articles, reviews and essays from over 225 journals.
• Gallup Organization current Gallup polls on public opinion and selected social surveys.
• Gay and Lesbian Politics & Law "A selective, annotated guide to the best and most authoritative resources on politics, law, and policy. Designed for students, scholars, teachers, journalists, activists, and citizens, and maintained by Steve Sanders at Indiana University. "
• Gay and Lesbian Studies Research Guide From the New York Public Library.
• Gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database A searchable database from Germany of over 6,000 articles, mostly from English and American sources. It also includes links to other databases, meta-pages, and bibliographies.
• Gender Studies Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services from the University of Houston Women's Cybrary links to bibliographies, online magazines, books by and about women.
• GenderStats GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators. Data sources include national statistics, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys.
• glbtq: An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture An authoritative encyclopedia, with essays and discussion areas covering art, theatre, literature and other cultural areas.
• Government Information Sharing Project at Oregon State University has easy-to-use tools for Census data on USA counties, the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, School District Data Book Profiles, Imports & Exports, Regional Economic Data, Earnings, and other data provided by the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the National Center for Education Statistics and the MESA Group.
• Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources A classified bibliography of 4500 monographs and serials based on the collection in the University of Chicago Library.
• H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences links to Web sites and discussion groups for scholarship and teaching.
• Howard W. Odum Institute Poll Item Database Query Page from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is a searchable database of public opinion polls from 1960 on. Data can be displayed or downloaded.
• ICPSR Web Site The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Social science data archives: social surveys, health surveys, historical data.
• InfoNation This United Nations site allows you to select two or more countries and compare social, demographic and economic data.
• Institute for Research on Poverty
• International Data Base Demographic data from 227 countries compiled by the US Census Bureau. The data go back to 1950 and have projections to 2050.
• Latinos in the Northeast "maps and tables indicating the number of Latinos in 1990 and 2000, county by county, in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.?
• Lives Together, Worlds Apart: Men and Women in a Time of Change from the United Nations The State of the World Population publication, this study looks at violence against women, women's reproductive and other rights, and the denial of education to women.
• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information Provides statistical information, a database of over 25,000 abstracts, a database of community-based prevention programs, state civil and criminal statutes, and links to other resources. This is an invaluable resource for anyone involved with children, child abuse, sexuality, or legal issues.
• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
• People with a History: an Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History Historical LGBT documents. Part of the Internet Histories at Fordham University.
• PollingReport.com - Public Opinion Online summaries of current public opinon from CNN, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Gallup, Harris and other polls.
• PopCultures.com Links to resources in cultural studies, sociology, and communication studies.
• Queens College Sociology Department Links to data from the annual social survey and New York City social trends from Queens College.
• Rand Since the end of World War II, RAND has been a leading policy think tank in the areas of national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies. Many of its Research Briefs, Issue Papers, Journals and other electronic titles are available from this site.
• Social Science Data on the Internet Search for social science data sets and vendors. From the Universit of California, San Diego
• Sociosite
• SOSIG - Ethnology, Ethnography, Anthropology This UK based site is the top catalog of social science resources on the Internet. Its Social Science Search Engine indexes over 50,000 Webpages. Subject guides are also available for use.
• State & County QuickFacts National,state, and county maps from the US Census Bureau on population density, race, etc.
• Survey Data: three pamphlets on survey design and data collection From the American Statistical Association.
• Survey Research Center, Princeton University Links to other major polls on social issues, market research, Federal and academic sites.
• U.K. Data Archive The UK Data Archive is a specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.
• UCLA Center for Information Policy The Center is a forum for the discussion and development of policy alternatives addressing the leading issues in media and communication.
• UCLA Television Violence Monitoring Project The UCLA study examines every series, television movie, theatrical film shown on television children's program, special and advertisement hired during a television season. Over 3,000 hours of television are monitored every year. In a major difference from many previous studies, the UCLA report examines the context in which violence occurs thus distinguishing between violence which in its context raises concerns and that which does not.
• United Nations Scholar's Workstation "developed by the Yale University Library and the Social Science Statistical Laboratory, is a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography."
• Women's Studies Resources at the University of Maryland One of the most comprehensive sites on the Internet for women's studies.
• WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites, developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries, this site is prepared by individual librarians and covers a wide range of topics and countries and includes music, theology, and culture, along with history, health, and politics.