Companion Website

A Dictionary of Sociology

Web Links

Here is a list of recommended web links, arranged alphabetically by the relevant dictionary entries.

 A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W

A  Top

Addams, Jane
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7162(189905)13%3C33%3A...
A classic article by Jane Addams on the idea of the social settlement: 'A Function of the Social Settlement.' (Subscription.)

Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/SWA/Some_writi...
A selection of extracts from works by Adorno on music and the culture industry.

ageing, sociology of
http://www.sociosite.net/topics/aging.php
A portal site with links to numerous sites on aspects of ageing.

AIDS
http://www.unaids.org/en/
A United Nations site providing statistical and other information on HIV/AIDS.

B  Top

Becker, Howard
http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/
Howard Becker's home page, containing some recent papers and providing the opportunity to communicate with him.

Beveridge Report
http://www.sochealth.co.uk/history/beveridge.htm
Includes a lengthy extract from the Report.

body, sociology of
http://intl-bod.sagepub.com/
The journal Body & Society: the leading source for research in this area. (Subscription.)

Booth, Charles
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
An online archive of Booth's original data and notebooks covering the London survey.

C  Top

CAMSIS
http://www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/
The official site for the Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification Scale.

capitalism
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/jibs/2005/00000036...
An article on cultural influences in producing variant forms of capitalism, by Gordon Redding: 'The thick description and comparison of societal systems of capitalism.' (Subscription.)

census
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/index.html
The official government site for the UK census.
http://www.census.gov/
The US Census Bureau.

communitarian, communitarianism
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/index.html
A website associated with the communitarian ideas of Etzioni.

Comte, Auguste
http://membres.lycos.fr/clotilde/
A French site covering all aspects of Comte's work, including key texts (in French and English).

criminal statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/crime-justice/crime/crime-t...
Reports on official statistics on crime in the UK.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
The US Department of Justice.

D  Top

demography
http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm
The United Nations site for its Population Division, containing data and policy proposals.

disability
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/
The disability archive at Leeds University.

drugs, drug addiction
http://www.release.org.uk/
Release: a campaigning pressure group in the field of drug use.

Durkheim, Emile
http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/research/durkheimian-studies/
The British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, University of Oxford.

E  Top

economic sociology
http://econsoc.mpifg.de/
European Electronic Newsletter on Economic Sociology (a free online journal).

employment
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/labour-market/people-in-wor...
A gateway to official statistics on employment.

environment, sociology of
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/Gallery/Neto/Envsoc1.html
An academic website with links to resources on the sociology of the environment. This link no longer works and we are looking for a suitable alternative.

ethnicity, ethnic group
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/crer/
The Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations: the leading UK research centre.

exclusion, social exclusion
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.cabin...
The Social Exclusion Task Force, formerly the Social Exclusion Unit: the UK government agency responding to deprivation.

F  Top

family, sociology of
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/abou...
The Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, University of Manchester.

feminism, feminist theory
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/
The Women's Library (formerly the Fawcett Library): a major archive and source of information on feminism and women's history.

Foucault, Michel
http://www.michel-foucault-archives.org/
The Michel Foucault Archives (in several languages).

Freud, Sigmund
http://www.freud.org.uk/
The Freud Museum, London, with links to many useful resources.

G  Top

Geddes, Sir Patrick
http://www.patrickgeddestrust.co.uk/
The Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust, Scotland, encompassing his life and work.

genocide
http://www.instituteforthestudyofgenocide.org/
Institute for the Study of Genocide: a source of materials and policy proposals organised by an interdisciplinary group of academics.

Giddens, Anthony
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_99/defa...
Giddens' Reith Lectures of 1999, including an interview, and lectures on contemporary modernity.

Goffman, Erving
http://www.tau.ac.il/~algazi/mat/bib-goffman.htm
A comprehensive bibliography of Goffman's articles and books.

H  Top

Habermas, Jürgen
http://www.habermasforum.dk/
The Habermas Forum, including up-to-date information, and links to resources.

health and illness, sociology of
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL: a useful starting point for information.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/index.htm
The Department of Health (UK), with links to publications and statistics.

hunter gatherers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/tribes/kombai/index.shtml
A BBC site with video links on New Guinea hunter gatherers and the threat from the logging industry to their way of life.

I  Top

ideology
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2656(1965)4%3A2%3C164%...
A key paper by George Lichtheim: 'The Concept of Ideology.' (Subscription.)

income distribution
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/labour-market/people-in-wor...
Official National Statistics on income and wealth for the UK.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/income.html
The US Census, with information on income distribution.

industrial democracy
http://www.mondragon-corporation.com/language/en-US/ENG/Who-...
The Mondragon cooperative in Spain.

institutional racism
http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm42/42...
The Macpherson report on the murder of Stephen Lawrence: a report that popularized the term 'institutional racism'.

interlocking directorships
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev....
A review of research by Mark Mizruchi, in Annual Review of Sociology. (Subscription.)

K  Top

kula ring
http://www.netspeed.com.au/cr/theartofkula/links.htm
Links concerning the kula and the Trobriand Islands (now part of Kiriwina).

L  Top

labelling, labelling theory
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1224(197406)39%3A3%3C4...
A classic paper by Thomas Scheff: 'The Labelling Theory of Mental Illness.' (Subscription.)

labour movement
http://www.phm.org.uk/archive-study-centre/
The Labour History Archive and Study Centre.

Laing, Ronald D.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9558...
An article on sociological aspects of Laing's work, by Susie Scott. and Charles Thorpe: 9The sociological imagination of R.D. Laing.' (Subscription.)

law, sociology of
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home...
International Journal of Law, Crime, and Justice: the leading socio-legal studies publication. (Subscription.)
http://www.slsa.ac.uk/
The Socio-Legal Studies Association.

M  Top

McDonaldization
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/ritzer/
The official website of George Ritzer.

Malinowski, Bronislaw
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/thinkingallowed_200...
A BBC Radio interview on the life and work of Malinowski.

Martineau, Harriet
http://essays.quotidiana.org/martineau/
Includes extracts from essays by Martineau.

Marx, Karl
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/index.htm
Marx and Engels Internet Archive.

Mead, George Herbert
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Mead/socialself.htm
The full text of Mead's paper on 'The Social Self'.

Mental illness
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
The National Institute of Mental Health (US).

N  Top

NS-SEC
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec/default.asp
The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification. This link no longer works and we are looking for a suitable alternative.

network analysis
http://www.insna.org/
A key site for resources on social network analysis.

new religions, new religious movements
http://www.inform.ac/node/1557
The official site of INFORM, providing sociologically informed material on new religions.

O  Top

official statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
UK Statistics Authority.
http://www.census.gov/
US Census Bureau.

oral history
http://www.ohs.org.uk/index.php
The Oral History Society, with links to resources.

ownership and control
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev....
A review of comparative studies of contemporary forms of ownership, by John Scott: 'Networks of Corporate Power: A Comparative Assessment.' (Subscription.)

P  Top

panel study
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/
The Institute for Social and Economic Research, responsible for the principal longitudinal and panel studies in Britain.

paradigm
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1224(197912)44%3A6%3C9...
A critical discussion of the use of the idea in sociology, by Douglas Lee Eckberg and Lester Hill: 'The Paradigm Concept and Sociology: A Critical Review.' (Subscription.)

Parsons, Talcott
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev....
A review of recent reassessments of Parsons' work, by David Sciulli and Dean Gerstein: ‘Social Theory and Talcott Parsons in the 1980s.’ (Subscription.)

poverty
http://www.cpag.org.uk/
The Child Poverty Action Group: a campaigning and publicity organisation.

Q  Top

queer theory
http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-quee.htm
Queer Theory: a good site with information and resources.

R  Top

race
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713685087
Ethnic and Racial Studies: the leading journal in the field. (Subscription.)

rational choice theory
http://home.uchicago.edu/~gbecker/
The home page of Gary Becker.

realism
http://www.criticalrealism.demon.co.uk/
The Centre for Critical Realism.

religion, sociology of
http://www.sssrweb.org/
The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

S  Top

secondary analysis
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
The UK Data Archive, incorporating Qualidata: the major archive of datasets available for secondary analysis.

sex, sociology of
http://www2.asanet.org/sectionsex/links.html
Links provided by the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the ASA.

slavery
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/
The International Slavery Museum, Liverpool.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Slave narratives held in the US Library of Congress.

sociology
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/
The British Sociological Association.
http://www.europeansociology.org/
The European Sociological Association.
http://www.asanet.org/
The American Sociological Association.
http://www.isa-sociology.org/
The International Sociological Association.

T  Top

Third World
http://www.twnside.org.sg/
The Third World Network: an information and pressure group providing news on trade and politics.

U  Top

utopia, utopianism
http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/
Utopia Britannica, dealing with British utopian communities.

V  Top

voting behaviour
http://www.essex.ac.uk/bes/
The British Election Study, University of Essex.

W  Top

Weber, Max
http://www.zeno.org/Soziologie/M/Weber,%20Max
The official guide to Weber's collected works in German.
http://www.sociosite.net/topics/weber.php
A site dedicated to Weber and his work.

world-system, world-system theory
http://irows.ucr.edu/
The Institute for Research on World-Systems, managed at the University of California at Riverside.