Divided into 14 sections, this expansive resource list provides a slew of websites on the most frequently discussed sociology topics.
Overviews of Social Inequality Explorations in Social Inequality: links and bibliographic resources relating
to social class, stratification, and inequality: http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/strat.html The Progress of Nations: The nations of the world ranked according to their
achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning, and progress
for women: http://www.unicef.org/pon00 Back to Top
Understanding
Race, Ethnicity and Racial/Ethnic Discrimination 100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans: http://www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: http://www.adc.org Asian Pacific American Network: http://www.apanet.org Black Facts Online: http://www.blackfacts.com History of Jim Crow Segregation Laws: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~ljones/Jimcrow/index.html Japanese American Internment: On-line Exhibit: http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/exhibit2.html Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics: Asian American Experiences in the
U. S.: http://www.askasia.org/image/maps/t000015.htm National Latino Research Center: http://www.csusm.edu/nlrc Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World http://www.nativeweb.org Race data from the U. S. census: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race.html Racial and Ethnic Stratification: A sociological exploration of racial and
ethnic inequality in the U. S.: http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/race.html Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.splcenter.org Back to Top
Socioeconomic Status
and Class Inequality Center for Urban Poverty: http://povertycenter.cwru.edu Corporate Welfare Information Center: http://www.corporations.org/welfare Covington’s Homeless: A Documentary: http://www.intac.com/~jdeck/Covdex2.html Current data on poverty from the U. S. census: http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/hhes/www/poverty.html The Forbes 400: Forbes annual ranking of the 400 richest people in the U. S.:
http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/27/400.html Inequality.org: News, Information, and Expertise on the Divide in Income, Wealth,
and Health: http://www.inequality.org Institute on Race and Poverty: http://www1.umn.edu/irp Institute for Research on Poverty: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp National Center for Children in Poverty: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/index.html National Coalition for the Homeless: http://www.nationalhomeless.org People Like Us: Social Class in America: http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus Poverty and Race Research Action Council: Race, Poverty & Corporate Welfare:
http://www.prrac.org/topics/mar00/leroy.htm PovertyNet: Inequality, Poverty, and Socio-economic Performance: http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/inequal/index.htm United Nations Development Program World Income Inequality Database: http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm Welfare Information Network: http://www.welfareinfo.org Back to Top
Understanding Sex, Gender
and Sexism Boys to Men Sports Media: Messages About Masculinity: http://www.childrennow.org/media/boystomen/report-sports.html European Pro-Feminist Men’s Network: http://www.europrofem.org Feminism and Women’s Issues Links: http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/Women.html Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA): http://www.gender.org
Gender Stats: A Database of Gender Statistics: http://genderstats.worldbank.org Gender Stratification: A sociological exploration of sex and gender inequality:
http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/gender.html Homophobia and Masculinities among Young Men: Lessons in Becoming a Straight
Man: http://online.anu.edu.au/~a112465/homophobia.html Institute for Women's Policy Research: http://www.iwpr.org The International Foundation for Transgender Education: http://www.ifge.org The Intersex Society of North America: http://www.isna.org The National Organization for Men Against Sexism: http://www.nomas.org Back to Top
Perspectives on Sexualities American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists: http://www.aasect.org Cornell Human Sexuality Collection: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/HSC/faq/hscfaq.htm Kinsey Institute: http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology Planned Parenthood Federation of America: http://www.ppfa.org Planned Parenthood resources for teens: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/teens SexQuest: http://www.SexQuest.com Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States: http://www.siecus.org Sexuality Research Council: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/sexuality SIECUS links page: http://www.siecus.org/links/links.html Society for Human Sexuality: http://www.sexuality.org The American Board of Sexology: http://www.sexologist.org The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality: http://www.iashs.edu/ World Association for Sexology: http://www.worldsexology.org/ Back to Top
Work, Employment and the Economy AFL-CIO Executive Pay Watch: http://www.aflcio.org/paywatch/index.htm Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov National Partnership for Women and Families: http://www.nationalpartnership.org Sweatshop Watch: http://www.sweatshopwatch.org The National Committee on Pay Equity: http://www.feminist.com/fairpay Understanding the Unemployment Rate: http://www.mnwfc.org/lmi/review/0899supp.htm The Wage Gap: A history of pay inequity and the equal pay act: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html Back to Top
Families Alternative Family Institute: http://www.altfamily.org Alternative Family: http://www.alternative-family.com Center for Working Families: http://workingfamilies.berkeley.edu Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy: http://www.cffpp.org Familes and Work Institute: http://www.familiesandwork.org Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics: http://www.childstats.gov Kearl’s Guide to the Sociology of the Family: http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/family.html Kids Count: http://www.aecf.org/kidscount Love Makes a Family: http://www.familydiv.org/lovemakesafamily National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families: http://www.cpr4womenandfamilies.org Back to Top
EducationThe Chilly Climate: How Men and Women are Treated Differently in Classrooms
and at Work: http://www.bernicesandler.com/id4.htm Gender and Ethnic Bias in Instruction: An ERIC information guide: http://askeric.org/Old_Askeric/InfoGuides/alpha_list/Gender-bias07-98.html How Selective Colleges Heighten Inequality: http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i03/03b00701.htm Institute for Education and Social Policy: http://www.nyu.edu/iesp Latina High School Leaving: Some Practical Solutions: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed423096.html National Center for Education Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education: http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu The Native American Boarding School Experience: http://www.heard.org/exhibits.php Native American Education: Documenting Native American Boarding Schools: http://www.duke.edu/~ehs1/education Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances: The Challenges to Equal Opportunity in the
Americas: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/REIUNE.html Back to Top
The
State, Public Policy & the Criminal Justice System Affirmative Action Review: Report to the President: http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/aa/aa-index.html Criminal Injustice Links: http://www.radiovolta.org/criminalinjusticelinks.html Economic Policy Institute: http://www.epinet.org Human Rights Watch: Race and Incarceration in the United States: http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/race Latino Youth and the U. S. Justice System: http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/latino_rpt Racial Profiling in America: http://www.aclu.org/profiling/report/index.html The Roots of Sprawl: Highway Building: http://www.plannersweb.com/sprawl/roots_highway.html The Sentencing Project: http://www.sentencingproject.org Welfare Reform Reauthorization: An Overview of Problems and Issues: http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/wrb/publications/pb/pb02/pb02.htm Back to Top
MediaAbout-Face: Representations of Women in Media and Advertising: http://www.about-face.org Children and the Media: Children’s Perceptions of Race and Class on Television
http://www.childrennow.org/media/fc2002/fc-2002-highlights.htm FAIR: The National Media Watch Group: http://www.fair.org Gay Images: TV’s Mixed Signals: http://www.gaylib.com/text/rept20.htm HYPE: Monitoring Black Images in the Media: http://www.ayaed.com/hype Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow Latino Representations in the Media: http://www.nlci.org/press/Past%20articles/whosontheair.htm Media Action Network for Asian Americans: http://www.manaa.org Media Portrayals of Wheelchair Users: http://www.youknow.com/disability/portrayals.html Representations of American Indians in Film and Culture: http://subject.lib.umn.edu/socsci/amerindfilm.html We Rarely See Those Who Labor: http://www.tbwt.com/views/feat/feat1433.asp Back to Top
Language and Images "American Indian" Sports Team Mascots: http://earnestman.tripod.com/1indexpage.htm Disability is Natural: People First Language: http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/peoplefirstlanguage.htm English Only Movement: Information and Resources: http://usliberals.about.com/cs/englishonly English Only: An ACLU Briefing Paper: http://www.aclu.org/library/pbp6.html Language Matters: Language and Disability: http://www.equity.uts.edu.au/resources/ablist.html Living in a Symbolic World: http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/socpsy-4.html Studies on Gay and Lesbian Language: http://www.msu.edu/~greenm14/outil/gaybib.html Wisconsin Indian Education Association: "Indian" Mascot and Logo
Taskforce: http://pages.prodigy.net/munson Youall: A site concerned with Sexist Language: http://www.youall.freeservers.com Back to Top
Health, Illness and the BodyAlan Guttmacher Institute: Sexual and Reproductive Health Research, Policy
Analysis and Public Education http://www.guttmacher.org The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals: http://www.arhp.org The Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource: http://www.thebody.com/index.shtml Coming of Age: From Facts to Action for Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive
Health: http://www.sexplained.com Fat!So?: For People Who Don’t Apologize about their Size: http://www.fatso.com Institute on Race, Health Care, and the Law: http://academic.udayton.edu/health/index.htm Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: http://www.unaids.org Links to information on men’s health and sexual concerns: http://www.health-library.com/men/ MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health: http://www.macses.ucsf.edu Men’s Health: http://www.vix.com/men/health/health.html#physical Michigan Initiative on Inequalities in Health: http://www.sph.umich.edu/miih Mirror Mirror: Eating Disorders: http://www.mirror-mirror.org/eatdis.htm National Women’s Health Information Center: http://www.4woman.gov Q Web Sweden - Women’s health issues in cross-cultural perspective: http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se Reproductive Rights and Women with Disabilities: http://www.crlp.org/pub_art_disabilities.html Sexual Health Network: http://www.sexualhealth.com Something Fishy: A Website on Eating Disorders: http://www.something-fishy.org U.N. Report: Gender and Health: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=293&mode=today; Women and Health Concerns: http://www.womenshealth.org World Health Organization Statistical Information System: http://www.who.int/whosis Back to Top
Violence and Social Control Andrea Dworkin On-line Library Catalog: materials against pornography: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin Communities Against Violence Network: http://www.cavnet2.org FBI Civil Right Program—Hate Crimes: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/hate.htm Impact: Feature Issue on Violence Against Women with Developmental or Other
Disabilities: http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/133/default.html National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect: http://www.calib.com/nccanch National Clearinghouse on Family Violence in Canada: links to resources on
child sexual abuse: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape: http://members.aol.com/ncmdr/index.html National Coalition Against Domestic Violence: http://www.ncadv.org The New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project: Reports and Publications
http://www.avp.org Rape 101: resources and education for stopping rape: http://www.rape101.com Sexual abuse of child, child pornography and the internet: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/child_screen/conf_index_2.html U. S. Department of Justice Violence Against Women Office: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/welcome.html Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act 2000: Trafficking in Persons
Report: https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/4107.pdf Violence Against Women and Sexual Harassment: http://www.feminist.com/violence Back to Top
Organizations Working
for Social Justice Action Without Borders: http://www.idealist.org Advocates for Youth: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power—New York: http://www.actupny.org American Civil Liberties Union: http://www.aclu.org American Disability Association: http://www.adanet.org Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org Anti-Defamation League: http://www.adl.org Black Radical Congress: http://www.blackradicalcongress.com Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership: http://www.boggscenter.org Campaign to End Homophobia: http://www.endhomophobia.org Center for Economic Justice: http://econjustice.net/wbbb Center for Third World Organizing: http://www.ctwo.org/index.html Chicago Direct Action Network: http://www.chicagodan.org Child Sexual Exploitation (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children):
http://www.missingkids.com/html/ncmec_default_ec_cse.htm Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking: http://www.trafficked-women.org Coalition for Positive Sexuality: http://www.positive.org The Disability Rights Activist: http://www.disrights.org End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking International: http://www.ecpat.net/eng/index.asp Equality Now: http://www.equalitynow.org Feminist Majority Foundation: http://www.feminist.org Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: http://www.glaad.org/org/index.html The Green Party: http://www.greenpartyus.org Gender Watchers: http://www.genderwatchers.org Hetrick-Martin Institute: seeks to create safe environments for l/g/b/t teens
and their families: http://www.hmi.org International Action Center: http://www.iacenter.org Jews for Racial and Economic Justice: http://www.jfrej.org Kensington Welfare Rights Union: http://www.kwru.org Labor Party News: http://www.igc.apc.org/lpa Men Can Stop Rape: http://www.mencanstoprape.org Men Stopping Violence: http://www.menstoppingviolence.org MIFTAH: The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and
Democracy: http://www.miftah.org Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse: http://www.mincava.umn.edu The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: http://www.outproud.org National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: http://www.ngltf.org/index.cfm The National Organization for Women: http://www.now.org A New Contract With The Planet: http://www.truemajority.org Prison Activist Resource Center: http://www.prisonactivist.org Progressive Majority: http://www.progressivemajority.org Project Underground: Supporting the Human Rights of Communities Resisting Mining
and Oil Exploitation http://www.moles.org Prostitutes’ Education Network: http://www.bayswan.org/penet.html The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition: http://www.rainbowpush.org Refuse and Resist: http://www.refuseandresist.org Resist, Inc.: http://www.resistinc.org Solidarity: A Revolutionary, Socialist, Democratic, Feminist, Anti-Racist Organization:
http://www.igc.apc.org/solidarity Stop the Hate: http://www.stopthehate.org Student Liberation Action Movement: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/6353 Syracuse Cultural Workers: http://www.syrculturalworkers.org Teachers for a Democratic Culture: http://www.tdc2000.org/home.html The United Auto Workers: http://www.uaw.org U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice: http://www.50years.org UNITE! Sweatshops Campaign: http://www.uniteunion.org/sweatshops/index.htm United Farm Workers of America: http://www.ufw.org United for a Fair Economy: Inspiring Action to Close the Economic Divide: http://www.ufenet.org University of the Poor: http://universityofthepoor.org War Times: http://www.war-times.org Welfare Law Center: http://www.welfarelaw.org Back to Top | 
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