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This list was reviewed and updated on 6 August 2001. Please send news of dead and changed links and suggestions for new resources to the College Webmaster
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), an extraordinary meta-page of internet resources. Click on "Browse SOSIG."
ESRC: Resource Guide to the Social Sciences, annotated links to sites sorted by subject matter,
including bibliographic, reference and research information.
International Institute of Social History, from one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions for social history in general and for the history of the labor movement in particular.
Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century, documents a century of labor in the city, drawing on photos,
oral histories, and an interactive timeline..
Country Studies, from the Library of Congress, includes interesting country profiles for the sociologist.
FedStats, from the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
Working Papers of the Center for Demography and Ecology, from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Focuses "on population composition and distribution within the United States, especially on changes in family structure and process and social inequality."
America's Demography in the New Century: Aging Baby Boomers and
New Immigrants as Major Players Released on March 8, 2000, this 62-page report (a .pdf document) from the Milken
Institute considers the changing landscape of the demographics of the
United States.
Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), located at the University of Minnesota, this site is an "international
resource on American immigration and ethnic history" that offers a number
of resources of interest to migration and ethnic specialists.
The Myth of the Melting Pot, from the Washington Post. The article discusses the "second great wave of immigration" into America, which greatly differs from the first wave of European immigration in that it is mostly fueled by Asian and Latin American immigrants.
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit Created by Lowell Boileau, this site documents what some feel is the
"American Athens": postindustrial Detroit.
State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the
United States: 1790 to 1990 This paper presents decennial census population totals for the 100 largest
cities and other urban places in the United States based on the 21
decennial censuses taken from 1790 to 1990
Digital Image Access Project:The Urban Landscape The Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
has made this image base of 1,000 images depicting urban life at various
time periods, primarily in the American South, available.
Radical Urban Theory (RUT), an exciting web-only journal of writings on the modern urban condition.
Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography (EJAB), Provided by John Howell, International Studies Bibliographer at the University of Iowa Libraries. Bibliographical materials, not articles or primary resources.
Arctic Circle, from the University of Connecticut. Material on history and background, the people, the social and political environment as well as the natural environment.
Internet Resources in Sociology
Population Index, maintained by Princeton University.
International Database Population Pyramids--US Census Bureau Selecting the dynamic option gives you practically a moving picture of population changes from year to year.
Center for Demography and Ecology, from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Urban Environmental Management The homepage of the Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI) in Japan.
World Census Information (Choose "World Demographic Trends" option.)
Statistical Abstract of the United States 1996, from the U.S. Census Bureau
Uniform Crime Reports, county-level, state by state, as provided by the F.B.I.
Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice, research report from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Crime Mapping Research Center.
Ending Violence Against Women, from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the
Center for Health and Gender Equity.
Southeast Asia Images and Texts, from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies (VICS), this site is under development (10/97), but it promises to have a lot of good material in time..
Indigenous Studies Resources, a World Wide Web Virtual Library.
Yaxuna Archaelogy Project, provided by the Selz Foundation, headquartered at Southern Methodist University, details archaeological work done on the little-known city site of Yaxuna in the heart of the Yucatan.
Canada's Digital Collection, provided by the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature.
Teotihuacan Home Page, a detailed, scholarly look at an ancient pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Race in America--Atlantic Unbound, a roundtable discussion on race in America.
Archival Data Online Repository, an enormous resource of primary materials on a number of subjects -- from 18th-century slave trade to the disappearance of vegetation in the Bahamas.
Anthropology in the Field, maintained by Professor Laura Tamakoshi of Truman State University.
Theory in Anthropology, Provided by Richard Wilk, an Indiana University Anthropology Professor,
this site offers resource guides compiled by IU Anthropology graduate
students. Guides are divided into ten subdisciplines including Urban
Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Feminist Anthropology, Cognitive
Anthropology, Humanistic Anthropology, and Cultural Materialism.
National Coalition for the Homeless Home-page
