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Education Index - an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. Library of Congress - information on legislation, congressional record, committee reports; links to state/local governments; links to the three branches of government; basic information on how the house and senate function; links to historical documents; links to current bills, etc. Resources - topics include poverty, ethnicity, culture, race, women, family, criminology, theory, research resources, and much more. Sociology - Julian Dierkes' Comprehensive Guide to Sociology On-Line. Sociology Directory at Yahoo! - links to sociologists, research engines, virtual library, criminal justice, urban studies, institutes, journals, organizations, etc. Sociology Organizations from Yahoo! - a list of links to sociological societies and organizations. Sociology Subject Index - links to websites on sociological subject areas, sociology subfields, sociological theories, society, socialization, social problems, social structure, social inequality, sociologists, rural sociology, urban sociology, family, aging, gerontology, demography, astrosociology, cyberspace, terrorism, population, education, environment, health, ecology, law, politics, religion, collective behavior, culture, cultural studies, deviant behavior, gender, women, globalization, groups, minority problems, postmodernism, social change, social control, social movements, social activism, social organization, social planning, social power and researched resources. A Sociological Tour through Cyberspace - General sociological resources; Sociological theory; Data resources; Methods and statistics; Guide to writing a research paper; Exercising the imagination: Subject-based Inquiries. Sociosite - hundreds of online resources including organizations, mailing lists, journals, data archives, etc.; over 100 topics from activism to youth. Top 20 Sociology - Online Directory for Sociology Education. Tri-co Library Guide to Sociology - includes links to resources on the following topics: AIDS, international/developing countries, poverty, and sport; also has links to organizations and data/statistics; some, but not all, of these links are reproduced on this page.
Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center - journals/archives; articles/papers; theorists and critics such as Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, bell hooks; book reviews; links and much more.
Bureau of Justice Statistics - statistics about crimes and victims, drugs and crime, homicide trends, criminal offenders, law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections, expenditure and employment, etc. FedStats - "More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public." A to Z search engine by topic. Historical Census Data 1790-1970 International Archive of Education Data - data archive with education as the main focus. International Statistical Agencies - listed alphabetically by country name.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research - large data archive with a search engine (search by study title, topic, or principle researcher). National Archive of Criminal Justice Data - Bureau of Justice Statistics; other data archives. National Center for Education Statistics - data archives; surveys; fast facts; links to organizations; info on the condition of education in the US. Survey Documentation & Analysis - data archive including GSS and NES data; allows one to perform frequencies, crosstabs and simple statistical procedures on-line. World Bank Database - more than 50 links to international data
The National Center for Education Statistics - elementary/secondary school surveys, post secondary school surveys, longitudinal surveys, education assessments, library surveys, international comparisons, programs. United States Department of Education - research and statistics, news, programs, publications, A to Z topic search, directories and guides.
Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services - recent news and current issues; links to ACF programs and services. American Public Human Services Association - "a nonprofit, bipartisan organization of individuals and agencies concerned with human services….APHSA educates members of Congress, the media, and the broader public on what is happening in the states concerning welfare, child welfare, health care reform, and other issues involving families and the elderly." Children Now - "Children Now is a nonpartisan, independent voice for children, working to translate the nation's commitment to children and families into action." - publications on-line, a huge number of links to resources on issues relevant to children, parenting, family, etc. Idea Central: Welfare and Families - a journal discussing current issues in welfare reform. Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse - topics include: Alcohol; Other Drugs and Violence; Child Abuse; Child Abuse and Violence Against Women; Disabilities and Violence; Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women; Early Childhood; Elder Abuse; Electronic Databases; Violence Against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender People; Gun Violence; Hate and Bias Violence; Human Rights Abuses and Genocide; International Connections; Men's Issues; News and Discussion Groups; Other Forms of Violence; Peace, Nonviolence & Conflict Resolution;Personal Stories; Prostitution and Trafficking in Women and Children; Religious Communities and Violence; School Violence; Sexual Violence; Television Violence; Welfare and Domestic Violence; Workplace Violence; Youth and Gang Violence.
Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy - "publishes one symposium issue per year relating to conferences hosted by the Journal at the Duke University School of Law and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina." Institute for Teaching and Research on Women - areas of research: economic restructuring (its effects on communities, families, and children), gender and communication in organizations, sexual harassment, domestic violence and substance abuse, research on women and development. National Organization for Women Resources on the Net - legal resources (legislative, executive, judicial), political news, feminist indexes on the internet. SIECUS - sexuality information and education council of the US. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - "examines political systems and cultural institutions through the lens of gender. It addresses changes in family, state, market, and civil society, employing several disciplines and drawing from a variety of cultures to illuminate these areas of research." Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality - "an international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality." Sociologists for Women in Society - journals, links to women's centers and programs Sociologists' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Caucus - queer social science links, sociology and sexuality links, queer academic links. Third World Women's Issues Web Page - links to information on women in various parts of the developing world. Women and Social Movements in the United States--1600-2000 - contains the following resources: · 57 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 1,500 documents, 600 images, and over 600 links to other websites. They demonstrate that historical analysis is an interpretive process based on documents. Viewers of the site are encouraged to participate in that interpretive process. We expect to add twelve new document projects annually. Women and Social Movements is also now accepting submissions of document projects for consideration for online publication. See below for more information.... 20,000 pages of documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements. These materials have been selected by the Editors for their relevance to the focus of the website.... A dictionary of social movements and organizations.... A chronology of U.S. Women's History. AEGIS - largest HIV/AIDS information archive in the world. Contains a vast amount of information including a law library, news updated hourly, prevention, exposure, and treatment information, publications, resources including statistics, links, books in print by year of publication, connections to HIV/AIDS newspapers, and more… Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control National Prevention Information Network - HIV/AIDS, STD, TB information including publications by topic, resources by topic, databases, news, and links. National Institute on Drug Abuse - information on abused drugs, reports, news, links. US General Accounting - HIV/AIDS drugs: funding implications of new combination therapies for federal and state programs: report to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate.
Immigration and Naturalization Service - statistics, reports and studies, laws and regulations, etc. Mexican Migration Project - The MMP is a multidisciplinary research effort between investigators in Mexico and the United States.
AFL-CIO - "Our mission is to improve the lives of working families and to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to the nation. " - includes press releases, news, women and labor, safety and health, and labor links. Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management Page - large number of links to labor related pages. International Labor Organization - The ILO is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. It was founded in 1919 and is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles which brought the League of Nations into being and it became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946. US Department of Labor - data resources, information on statutes and regulations administered by the Dept. of Labor, library (speeches, publications, press releases, etc.), programs and services, news, links. US Department of Labor - Minimum Wage - information on the minimum wage - history, questions and answers about the federal minimum wage, recent wage increase info.
United Nations - peace and security, international law, humanitarian affairs, human rights, economic and social development, news, documents, databases, publications, and other information.
1998 HSS Poverty Guidelines - Contains data corresponding to the two versions of the federal poverty measure: poverty thresholds and poverty guidelines. Income and Poverty publications from the U.S. Census Bureau - more than 40 substantive reports on issues relating to poverty. Institute for Research on Poverty Poverty guidelines, research, and measurement - Presents poverty guidelines and measurements provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Poverty Lines - "A joint publication by the Policy Research & the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank." Poverty Reduction Project - A pilot project, sponsored by a German technological cooperative, aimed at bringing "... the needs of poor people to the forefront of economic development agendas worldwide through an Internet forum." Poverty-related Links - Presents a directory of online resources related to poverty, compiled by the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP). Publications of the Joint Center for Poverty Research - includes Poverty Research News: a quarterly newsletter of the JCPR, and the Working Papers Series: publications of researchers at the Center, and papers presented at conferences, seminars or other events held under its auspices. US Department of Housing and Urban Development US Census Bureau Housing Information and Data - American housing survey data; home ownership data; housing affordability; housing vacancy data; market absorption of apartments; property owners and managers survey; residential segregation; historical tables from the housing censuses.
Anti-Racism Net - many good links/resources; recent news. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - affirmative action, welfare, disability, elderly, education, fair housing, hate crimes, immigration, labor, religious freedom, community reinvestment act, employment non-discrimination act, fair housing, and much more. University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture - data sets, many resources and web links, papers, reviews, poetry & fiction.
Gramsci resources - complete list of his writings, search engine, biography, links to other Gramsci sites. Marx-Engels Internet Archive - extensive online library collection of their works; biographies; search; other writers such as Mao Tse-tung, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky. SocioSite - Noted Sociological Theorists and Samplings of their Works - theorists listed alphabetically; biographies, their works and theories, and more.
Center for Research on Sports in Society - The Center for Research on Sport in Society (CRSS) is founded on the basic principle that sport is an institution that can and does affect our lives and our society in profound and sometimes dramatic ways and, thus, warrants the serious attention of the scholarly community. NCA Sports - The National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) is an ever-growing organization of colleges, universities and individuals. The mission of the NCAS is to create a better society by focusing on educational attainment and using the power and appeal of sport to positively affect social change. Sports in Society - Center for the study of sports in society. Women's Sports Foundation - Excellent set of links and report on Her Life Depends On It, the most comprehensive compilation of research to date about the impact of physical activity on the physical, psychological and cultural health of women.
Progressive Organizations Links Progressive Organizations / Politics / Getting Involved The Society for the Study of Social Problems Labor Studies Division compiled the following list. Though it's incomplete, it provides a good starting point for those looking for opportunities to get involved politically – from electoral reform to gay rights to information about contacting your Senators and Representatives in Washington.
LGBT RIGHTS
Human Rights Campaign http://wwwhrcactioncenter.org/actioncenter/home.html
National Gay Lesbian Task Force http://ga4.org/taskforce/homehtml
Lambda Legal http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html
Gender Public Advocacy Coalition
National Center for Lesbian Rights http://www.nclrights.org/forms/listserve.htm
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
Woodhull Freedom Foundation http://www.woodhullfoundation.org/
Chicago AIDS Foundation http://www.aidschicago.org/community/ http://www.aidschicago.org/advocacy/join_network.php
Chicago Anti-Bashing Network
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS/FEMINIST ISSUES
National Organization for Women http://www.now.org/actions/index.html
NARAL: Pro-Choice American http://www.naral.org/takeaction/index.cfm
CIVIL LIBERTIES/CIVIL RIGHTS/DEMOCRACY
American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org/TakeAction/
American Civil Liberties Union-IL
Democracy Matters: Change Elections, Change America
MoveOn.Org: Democracy in Action http://www.moveon.org/keepmeposted/
True Majority http://www.truemajority.org/actionregister/
People for the American Way http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/
Stop the Hate
Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance Project (Southern Poverty Law Center) http://www.tolerance.org/index.jsp
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Amnesty International http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/join/
Sociologists Without Borders (Sociólogos sin fronteras) http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.org/
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS FOR JUSTICE AND COMPASSION
Faithful America
Soulforce
LABOR RIGHTS
AFL-CIO
Unite to Win (SEIU)
Coalition of Graduate Employees
ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS Greenpeace
Rainforest Action Network
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl
AlterNet
Anarchist People of Color
Media Watch
BuzzFlash.Com
Working For Change http://www.workingforchange.com/
Common Dreams
Chicago Media Watch http://www.chicagomediawatch.org/
Contact Your Senators and Representatives (Federal and State) Congress.Org http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
House of Representatives http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Senate
Thomas: Legislative Information
Find Your State Senators and Representatives (State Legislators) http://www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm
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