Sociology/Anthropology Internet Resources

is the librarian liaison to the S ociology/Anthropology Department.

Organizations & Associations

• American Sociological Association (ASA) serves sociologists in their work; advances sociology as a science and profession; promotes the contributions and use of sociology to society.
• Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) was founded in 1941 to promote the investigation of the priniciples of human behavior and the application of these principles to contemporary issues and problems.
• Association for Applied Clinical Sociology is an international organization for professionals involved in applying sociological knowledge in a wide variety of settings.

Indexes & General Resources

• Anthropology Internet Resources, maintained by the Department of Social Sciences at Western Conneticut State University, links to sites on culture, linguistics, physical anthropology, archaeology, and Native Americans.
• Anthropology Review Database provides access to anthroplogical literature.
• Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace, developed by Michael C. Kearly, Trinity University, San Antonio, invites thoughful exploration and research in sociology.
• Sociology Internet Resources, maintained by the Department of Social Sciences at Western Conneticut State University, links to sites on culture and society, women, family, criminology, theory, research, et al.
• SocioSite, created by Albert Benschop, University of Amsterdam, is a social science meta-site with links to newsletters, newsgroups, and the tables of contents of major journals in sociology and related fields.
• SocioWeb point-and-click access to the smorgasbord of sociological information available across the World Wide Web designed and maintained by Mark Blair, a graduate student at Sonoma State University.
• Theory in Anthropology, created as part of the Proseminar in Sociocultural Anthropology at Indiana University, this site offers three categories of pages: subdisciplines within the field, changes in anthropological perspectives over time, and prominent theorists.
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology well-conceived indexes to sociology now maintained by Carl Cuneo, McMaster University.

Sub-Discipline-Related Sites

• Center for the Study of Group Process, located at the Sociology Department, University of Iowa, offers access to information on group processes research, researchers, publications, and events around the country.
• Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury, provides links to anthropology resources.
• Criminal Justice Links, created and maintained by Cecil Greek, Florida State University, is a comprehensive, cleverly presented site.
• Data on the Net, compiled at the University of California at San Diego, provides searching or browsing more than 750 Internet sites of numeric social science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, and social science gateways.
• Demography and Population Studies from the Australian National University, has more than 190 links to demographic resources from the WWW Virtual Library.
• Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, is a national center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the U.S.
• VisualAnthropology.net, developed by Franesco Marano, University of Basilicata, is a gateway for information on publications and productions, educational opportunities, and people active in the field.
• World Food Habits Bibliography, compiled by Robert Dirks, Illinois State University, is an interdisciplinary approach covering topics such as behaviors and eating attitudes, beliefs and preferences, culinary history, ethnography, hunger and famine, symbolism, and taboos and avoidances.

Governmental Agencies

• Bureau of Justice Statistics is an outstanding statistical source. Information is current, organized usefully, and presented in a clear and coherent format.
• CenStats, from the Census Bureau, provides access to various databases.
• Fedstats is an excellent starting place for anyone needing U. S. government statistics. It covers over 100government agencies and is searchable by topic or keywords.
• GPO Access provides centralized access to numerous full-text government databases.
• American Folklife Center , from the Library of Congress, is an excellent resource for scholars in anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklife.
• United Nations is information central for a host of international issues and statistics.

Electronic Journals

• Anthropology Journal Archive Project undergraduates at more than 80 colleges are collaborating to create indexing to The American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, and Huamn Organization.
• Journal of World-Systems Research is an electronic journal dedicated to scholarly research on the modern world-system and earlier, smaller intersocietal networks. Published under the sponsorship of the Program in Comparative International Development in the Sociology Department of John Hopkins University.
• JSTOR (available to those affliated with OWU) provides complete backfiles to core anthropology and sociology journals.
• Sociological Collection covers all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
• Sociological Methodology (1994- ) published by the American Sociological Association, is an annual volume on methods of research in the social sciences.