I have selected the following resources because either they are
central to information about sociology on-line, or because the are
particularly well-designed or informative.
Pages that I help
maintain are marked by a 
, though I include them because of their quality, not
only to toot my horn.
General Sociology Reference
Professional Associations
Central Resources
- American Sociological
Association
- The main professional association in the U.S. Includes membership,
section, and conference information.
Not always easy to navigate and some outdated internal links.
- European Sociological
Association
- Recent attempt to organize a transnational European umbrella
organization. Includes information about research networks and
conferences. Server is sometimes not very responsive.
- International Sociological
Association
- Global umbrella organization
Pleasantly straightforward design. Increasing amount of information
available, particularly about national organizations and ISA research
committees and conferences.
- Asociación Latinoamericana
de Sociología
- Umbrella organization for South America. Includes newsletter and
information about conferences. Slightly buggy.
Meritorious Resources
- Eastern Sociological Society
- Simple, but nice design, easy to navigate. Includes information about
membership, journals, and conferences. Makes good use of web-based
submission and registration tools.
Departments of Sociology
Central Resources
- WWW Virtual Library:
Sociology: Institutions - Departments: United States, for the
United States
- Comprehensive listing of US departments. Frequently updated.
- Open
Directory Project: /Sociology/Academic_Departments, for
English-speaking countries
- Growing listing of departments in various English-speaking countries.
Regularly updated.
- SocioSite:
Social Science Departments, for departments world-wide
- Great place to find social science departments (rather than
just sociology), but sometimes slow because most of the
information is on huge pages with internal links. Regularly
updated.
Meritorious Resource
- U
of Reading Sociology Department
- Clear and useful design. Loads of information about the
department with very helpful links of general relevance. Exemplary
for other departments!
E-Journals
Central Resources
- Electronic Journal of
Sociology
- Prescient initiative to pull sociological journal publishing on-line.
Papers available on-line and indexed by author, title and date.
Meritorious Resources
- Electronic Journal of
Sociology
- Ditto!
Web-Pages of Paper Journals
Central Resources
- JSTOR
- Ever-growing depository for past issues of many journals, but
only available to subscribers.
- American Journal of
Sociology
- One of the two main American sociology journals.
- American Sociological
Review
- The other of the two main American sociology journals.
Meritorious Resources
- Canadian Journal of
Sociology
- Though a conventional paper journal, the CJS makes tables of
contents, abstracts, and "featured" articles available on-line;
book reviews are especially commissioned for the on-line edition. In
addition, the site offers a great collection of general and up-to-date
sociology information (e.g., conference listings). Useful design that's
easy to navigate.
Mailing Lists
- Listservs associated with H-Net, Humanities and Social
Sciences OnLine
- Loads of academic listservs on a variety of topics, regional and
thematic
- Social Science
Japan-Forum
- Long-established academic listserv with an unusually high
signal-to-noise ratio, though discussions are restricted to social
scientific analyses of Japan.
Teaching Sociology
Central Resources
- Cal State's Social
Science Research and Instructional Council
- Teaching Resources Depository
Meritorious Resources
- The Internet
Sociologist
- A "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills
for Sociologists written by Stuart Macwilliam, Library and Information
Services, University of Exeter (UK).
Sociological Classics
Central Resources
- Emile
Durkheim
- Biorgraphy, bibliography and resources
- Marxists' Internet Archive
- Encyclopedic Reference Site
- Verstehen:
Max Weber's Homepage
- References, commentary and glossary
Meritorious Resources
- Georg Simmel
Online
- Extensive collection of texts by and (information) on Georg
Simmel
visitors since April 2001
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