SOCI 1101: Sociology: Course Tools: Websites and Other Information

"The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 200,000 interviews in 57 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work."

The American Sociological Association is the national organization for sociologists. A non-profit membership association based in Washington DC, the ASA publishes 9 professional journals and magazines and serves a diverse membership of college and university faculty, students, and practitioners

"Our mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media."

A collection of sociology sites that contains information about social structures, families, mass media, race relations, etc.

Everyday Sociology is a blog that features commentary from sociologists around the United States. Check back regularly to get a sociological take on what is happening in the world. This site was created primarily for people taking or teaching classes in sociology, so it's a great resource for students and faculty alike.

"The Institute for Women's Policy Research conducts rigorous research and disseminates its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies."

An international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew's research conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

US government profiles of countries and territories around the world and includes information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, and etc

.gov is leading the way in democratizing public sector data and driving innovation. The data is being surfaced from many locations making the Government data stores available to researchers to perform their own analysis. Developers are finding good uses for the datasets, providing interesting and useful applications that allow for new views and public

Links to statistics and statistical agencies

Provides access to U.S. Government documents.

http://www.dhs.gov/

This page is maintained by the Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress and is, of course, perpetually under construction. Provides links to government resources

The official web portal for all local, state and federal government information and statistics.

Podcasts from the U.S. government and other sources.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/

"The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a national, university-based, nonprofit and nonpartisan center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States."

Aljazeera America is an American basic cable and satellite news television channel that is owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. The channel, which was launched on August 20, 2013, directly competes with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox New etc.

Cable News Network. Breaking U.S. and International news

News and events. Website has links to audio clips and full shows.

National news and commentary. Website include news and opinion columns not in print. Website for the magazine.

Current news and opinion. Online videos and photo galleries of current events. Website for the magazine.

Univision is an American Spanish language broadcast television network that is owned by Univision Communications. The network's programming is aimed at Hispanic Americans.

U.S. and international business and financial news. Also available online through our databases. Website for the newspaper.