Sociology Research Guide:Web Sites

Looks at current events and contemporary issues from a sociologist's point of view. Contributors are experienced sociology professors from several academic institutions throughout the U.S. Topics range from consumer spending to infidelity to American Idol judges. This blog is useful for those interested in an academic perspective on today's hot topics. [Source: CHOICE August 2008 - v.45, no 12]

Sociological Images is designed to encourage all kinds of people to exercise and develop their sociological imagination by presenting brief sociological discussions of compelling and timely imagery that spans the breadth of sociological inquiry.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, neutral source of data and analysis. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. It includes socioeconomic and demographic data, publications, and interactives. You can even look at the polling questions asked in the Pew surveys.

Homepage for the organization that conducts Gallup polls, which aim to measure and interpret actions and attitudes of the public.

The most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. The Project facilitates understanding the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states. We comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries.

KIDS COUNT is a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a premier source of data on children and families. Each year, the Foundation produces a comprehensive report — the KIDS COUNT Data Book — that assesses child well-being in the United States

Since 1948, the United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official statistics on a wide range of social and demographic topics.

Provides online access to a variety of publications from the Census Bureau and to data from the decennial census.

A good place to look for census data. The Census Bureau conducts nearly 100 surveys and censuses every year, including the 10-year census, the American Community Survey, and more.

The congressionally mandated center is the primary organization that collects, collates, analyzes, and reports statistics on American education. Includes statistical data from five resources of the NCES: Condition of Education, Digest of Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics, Education Indicators, and Youth Indicators.