General Information
Sociosite–Social Science Information System University of Amsterdam
http://www.sociosite.net/index.php
A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/
Awesome blogs
The Society Pages (a dozen really fine blogs)
http://thesocietypages.org/
Family Inequality blog
http://familyinequality.wordpress.com/
Everyday Sociology Blog
http://nortonbooks.typepad.com/everydaysociology/
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting–challenging media bias & censorship)
http://www.fair.org/index.php
News and trends
e! Science News Psychology and Sociology
http://esciencenews.com/topics/psychology.sociology
New York Times Sociology in the News
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/sociology/index.html
Trenspot (a sociologist charts online trends)
http://www.trenspot.com/
Research Reports
National Child Abuse Incidence Study (Jan 2010 report to Congress)
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/abuse_neglect/natl_incid/
Social Science for Counterterrorism (600 page monograph by researchers at Rand Corporation; 12 chapters of ways to use social science to understand terrorism)
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG849.pdf
The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (UN Report)
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/SOWIP_web.pdf
War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (in English or Spanish)
http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/Report
Online sociology journals
Contexts: understanding people in their social worlds
(LSC library, located in Databases under “Hot Topics”, free access with LSC library barcode)
The Socjournal: A New Media Journal of Sociology and Society
http://www.sociology.org/
Organizations that research social science topics
Economic Policy Institute (briefing papers, research)
http://www.epi.org/
The National Priorities Project (what our taxes buy)
http://nationalpriorities.org/
Pew Research Center “numbers, facts and trends shaping your world”
http://pewresearch.org/
Census Scope: Census Data, Charts, Maps, and Rankings
http://www.censusscope.org/index.html
SDA: Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA is a set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data. SDA is developed and maintained by the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at the University of California, Berkeley.)
http://sda.berkeley.edu/
Center for Responsive Politics (political information and contributions databases-U.S.)
http://www.opensecrets.org
FBI Crime Statistics
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/crimestats
Centers for Disease Control “Wonder Online Databases”
http://wonder.cdc.gov/
Gallup polling data
http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.bea.gov/
Bureau of Justice Statistics (including crime victimization and law enforcement data)
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/
(Global)
World Bank global data
http://data.worldbank.org/
United Nations Data on the world
http://unstats.un.org/
IBOPE Zogby International Polling
http://zogby.com/news/
Gapminder World Guide (statistics in visual form)
http://www.gapminder.org/
Guttmacher Institute (U.S. and international sexual and reproductive health data)
http://www.guttmacher.org/datacenter/index.jsp