Useful Sociology Web Sites

American Sociological Association
This is the website for the national association of all sociologists. There is considerable information here about jobs and what we do.

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
The university home page

Texas A&M Social Science Library Resources
TAMUCC online social science library resources. Pick one of the data bases to search for sociologically relevant periodical literature.

A Dictionary of Sociology
A place to quickly look up many common terms in the field.

A Mega Sociology site
A site listing a large number of sociologically relevant websites.

Another Mega Sociology site**
Literally 100s of useful sociological sites.

Useful Government Sites

U.S. Government
This is a new site giving access to all governmental information. It has a good search engine attached. Start here if you want government information and don't know where to go.

Bureau of the Census
This is the home page of the census bureau. Here there is a huge amount of information about the number of people by state, county, city etc. Also lots on things like education levels, income, race, familiy and much more.

State of Texas
The home page for Texas. Gives access to all sorts of information on Texas.

Corpus Christi
The home page for the city of Corpus Christi.

Corpus Christi Police Department
The home page of the police department.; Jobs are listed here as well as some very good statistics on crime in the city.

Sites at Other Universities

Princeton Department of Sociology**
There are a number of neat links here including a listing of all sociology departments, encyclopedias, and much other information of interest.

Web Virtual Library in Sociology
A nice source of general information

ICPSR Homepage
This site provides access to computer-readable social science data. This site also provides connections to other social science data archives. This page provides information and applications for the ICPSR training program, and a description of and access to ICPSR publications.

PRAXIS
This page offers links to databases with datasets and research materials related to social and economic development. The material on this page is organized by subject categories. This page also offers links to information on funding for research in social and economic development, employment opportunities, fellowships, scholarships, and international exchange programs.

General Databases and Search Engines

Social Science Data Archives
This page contains many links to European, U.S., and other world databases. The archive links on this page are organized by the name of the country in which the archive is located. In addition this page provides links to several social science search engines and gopher servers.

Universal Codex for the Social Sciences**
If you want to find information about anything related to sociology, anthropology, economics, criminal justice, and education, this is the best place to look. This site offers a wide and comprehensive list of sites important to social scientists. In addition this site offers links to all of the major social science research engines. This page is organized by subject area and each site listed on the page has a brief description. All you have to do is click on the site in which you are interested, and you will be connected.

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology**
This site offers a variety of sociological internet resources including links to various research centers, discussion groups, electronic journals, and newsletters. This site is organized by subject categories.

The SocioWeb
This site serves as a sociological resource center that offers links to a number of topics and organizations important to social scientists. Included are links to sociological associations and university departments. Also included are links to pages dealing with both general and topical.

International Databases and Datasets

Australian National University**
This is a comprehensive page of links to leading demographic research and information facilities. This page provides over 150 links to demographic information world wide. In addition this page provides links to demographic databases and gopher servers for those who wish to search for information by subject.

Social Science Data Archives**
This database contains vast amounts of information about hundreds of Australian studies on a wide variety of sociological issues. The studies in this archive may be searched by subject, sampling procedures, name of principal investigator, names of persons on research team, and data collection methodology. The search results display the names of the relevant papers and a brief description of each study.

ESRC Data Archive**
This data archive houses over 4,500 datasets from the UK and covers many areas and disciplines. These datasets may be searched by subject, geographical location, year, and title. The user may specify in which format the dataset should be downloaded. The choices of download format are SPSS, Microsoft Excel, and ASCII.

Swedish Social Science Data Server
This database houses recent Swedish datasets in several areas. These datasets may be searched by subject categories such as social institutions and behavior, organizational behavior, demography, economic behavior, geography, and the environment. Under each of these larger catgegories,the database provides different links to more specific subject areas. In addition the user may browse the catalog of swedish dataset holdings.

UNICEF and other U.N. Organizations**
This page offers links to the homepages of the main U.N. organizations. This page also offers links to the gopher servers of these U.N. organizations for those interested in searching the databases of these agencies by subject.

LANIC
This site provides connections to several South American research institutions and sociology departments. This page also has links to sociology search engines and information about the hispanic population in the United States. This page may be searched by geographical region.

UK Demography Resources
This page provides links to several UK demography databases and UK demography search engines. The information on this page is organized by name of thedatabase. 

Office of Population Research: Princeton University
This page contains a variety of American, European, Chinese and world fertility studies. This page also provides links to the USAID and DHS homepages. In addition this page provides links to Princeton University's comprehensive data archives and the Population Index.