Sociology Resources

Created in 1994, the Commission has taken as its mission working to increase access to justice for victims of stalking, domestic violence and sexual assault.

Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth, and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals as well as the public to information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and more.

A report prepared by the Law Library of Congress covering children's rights as they existed in the legal systems of sixteen nations in both hemispheres ( last updated in August 2010 ) with each national report available in full text form.

The Poverty Mapping Collection enhances our understanding of the geographic distribution of people living in poverty and the conditions of their environment. The data assists policy makers, development agencies, and academic researchers in making decisions to reduce poverty.

The analysis of a new dataset on state prisoners in the 1900 to 1930 censuses reveals that immigrants rapidly assimilated to native incarceration patterns.

This special library is the oldest collection of materials documenting a wide variety of social protest movements from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Materials held range from political buttons to original manuscripts and audio recordings.

Mass Violence & Resistance (MV&R) is an interdisciplinary online journal focusing on 20th and 21st century massacres and genocides as well as on local resistance against mass violence. The aim of the journal is to provide reliable information on events that are sometimes difficult to document and that remain deeply rooted in individual and collective memories.

The Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) at Harvard University, led by David E. Bloom, received funding from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health to carry out research on important themes related to global aging and health, with an emphasis on issues in the developing world.

The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods.

This is a series of collections featuring different social issues like immigration, community, race, the veteran experience, etc. It links to maps, exhibitions, bibliographies, and other resources. This is edited and maintained by the Library of Congress.

SocioWeb is an excellent site which offers keyword searching for sociology topics as well as links to indexes, guides, journals, associations, other sites. It also offers a chat room for the field.

The Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government. This page link provides a listing of topic or research areas.