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American Religion Data Archive
An Internet-based Archive for the Study of American Religion
"The ARDA solicits data collections on American religion that are currently not stored in a public archive. Most of our data files are from surveys."
Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University
See also our Religion in America page.

Anthropology of Food (AOF) - (dead link) (ejournal)
"AOF is a bilingual academic journal in French and English.It aims to publish results of latest research in Sociology and Anthropology of Food."

Annual Review of Sociology

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

• Hate on Display
  A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos

Aztlan: International Journal of Chicano Studies Research
"...the interdisciplinary, refereed journal of Chicano/a Studies, is dedicated to scholarly research relevant to or informed by the Chicano/a experience. First published in 1970 and still the premier journal of Chicano/a studies, Aztl·n is issued twice a year."
Many articles available online

Brookings Institution

• Center on Social and Economic Dynamics (CSED)
• Economic Studies - (dead link)

Buscartigo (English, Spanish, or Portuguese)
"This site is consequence of a project which aim was provide all web users, with an auxiliary tool on online scientific research. The page is dedicated to Human Sciences and Applied Social Sciences issues in Brazil, containing nearly 20.000 online and downloading articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish languages

Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

• Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Catholic Clergy and Other Professionals
  Special Report by Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, February 2004.

Census Data for the Classroom & Demographic Media for All Audiences
Social Science Data Analysis Network
"The Social Science Data Analysis Network makes the latest US census surveys and demographic trends accessible to educators, policymakers, the media, and students at all levels."
Population Studies Center, University of Michigan

Center for Demographics and Ecology
University of Wisconsin, Madison

• "Black Neighbors, Higher Crime?: The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime"
  By Lincoln Quillian and Deval Pager ; CDE Working Paper No. 2000-03

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) Publications
Changing America
Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin
"This chart book documents current differences in well-being by race and Hispanic origin and describes how such differences have evolved over the past several decades. The book is designed to further one of the goals of the President's Initiative on Race: To educate Americans about the facts surrounding the issue of race in America."
Prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the President's Initiative on Race.

ChildStats.gov
Forum on Family and Child Statistics

The Chronicle of Higher Education

• Concentrated Poverty in New Orleans and Other American Cities
  By Bruce Katz, August 4, 2006.

Columbia University - National Center for Children in Poverty

• Publications

CTheory

Current Research in Social Psychology
An Electronic Journal

Cybersociology Magazine

Demos - A Network for Ideas and Action
"...is a new non-profit organization focusing on two of the most urgent challenges facing the United States in the 21st century: strengthening our democracy and creating more broadly shared prosperity."

Demographic Research
A free, expedited, peer-reviewed journal of the population sciences.
Published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Disaster Research Center
"Nearly all of the Disaster Research Center's Preliminary Papers, as well as many papers in other publications series, are available to be downloaded online free of charge."
University of Delaware

Drug Wars
A special Frontline series in collaboration with NPR [National Public Radio]
"From both sides of the battlefield, a 30-year history of America's war on drugs-a war with no rules, no boundaries, no end."
A fascinating, frank discussion of the $400 billion business.
PBS Frontline

Economic Policy Institute

Economic Sociology Editorial Series
"The editorials posted on the website first appeared on the economic-sociology listserver. New editorials will be posted after they are published on the listserver."

The Edge: The E-Journal of Intercultural Relations - (dead link)

Expenditures on Children By Families - (dead link)
Report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Fact Sheet on Dating Violence - (dead link)
Youth Violence and Suicide Prevention Team, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Future of Children
"...seeks to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research."
A publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution.

[Homeless] U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Community Planning and Development (CPD)
  • Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR)
    "measures homelessness over time, allowing researchers to expand their body of knowledge beyond more limited estimates in the past. HUD unveiled new data from Continuums of Care (CoC) that indicates 754,000 persons are living in emergency shelter, transitional housing, and on the streets on any given night."

Human Rights Watch

• "Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the [U.S.] War on Drugs"
  Report, May 2000

HyperBourdieu
Peirre Bourdieu
&quotA comprehensive, contextual and referential bibliography and mediagraphy of his works and public statements...We now claim completeness for all works and public statements by Pierre Bourdieu, which have been published or broadcasted in French, English or German."

Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin-Madison

• How Long Do African Americans Stay in High-Poverty Neighborhoods? An Analysis of Spells
  

Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)

• Marriage and Poverty: An Annotated Bibliography (April 2002)
  Briefing Paper by Hedieh Rahmanou and Amy LeMar
• Feminist Perspectives on TANF Reauthorization: An Introduction to Key Issues for the Future of Welfare Reform (February 2002)
  Briefing Paper by Janice Peterson

Institute of Sociology - Prague

• SociologickÈ texty - Sociological Papers
  "A series of studies detailing the results of the Institute's research. The studies are published in Czech or English."

Journal E: Real Stories From Planet Earth - (dead link)

Journal E: Interviews 50 cents - (dead link)

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

Journal of Hate Studies
Published by the Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate

Journal of Mundane Behavior
"...hosted by the Department of Sociology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, is a new scholarly journal devoted to the study of the "unmarked" -- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals."

Journal of Religion and Society (ejournal)
"...has been established to promote the cross-disciplinary study of religion and its diverse social dimensions through the publication of research articles, essays and opinions, review articles, and book reviews."

Journal of World-Systems Research

[Summary Results From] The Latino Ethnic Attitude Survey (LEAS)
Conducted by Daniel L. Roy, Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas

Law and Contemporary Problems
Duke University School of Law

Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

• Welfare Reform
  • Reports
    • Welfare Time Limits (July 2002)
      State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families
    • Moving People from Welfare to Work (July 2002)
      Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies

Morgan Quitno Awards
State and City Ranking Publications
Annual rankings include: Most Livable State ; Healthiest State ; Most Dangerous State ; Most Dangerous City.

National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS)

Columbia University - National Center for Children in Poverty

• Publications

Library of Congress - Federal Research Division - Terrorism Studies - (dead link)

• The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?
  Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, September 1999, Author: Rex A. Hudson

Los Angeles--A City in Stress - (dead link)
"Growing out of Los Angeles--A City in Stress, this project involves bringing up on the Web a series of full text documents dealing with the manifold problems of Los Angeles in the 1990's with emphasis on the civil disturbances of April and May 1992."
- University of Southern California Libraries

• Violence in the City: An End or a Beginning? - (dead link)
  A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, December 2, 1965
  (The McCone Report)
  "The digitization of this document is being undertaken as part of an on-going project to digitize many documents dealing with Los Angeles in the 1990's."

National Academy Press (free downloads)

• 2006
  • Hispanics and the Future of America
    By Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell, Editors, Committee on Transforming Our Common Destiny, National Research Council, 2006.
• 2002
  • Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
    SK Goldsmith, TC Pellmar, AM Kleinman, WE Bunney, Editors, Committee on Pathophysiology & Prevention of Adolescent & Adult Suicide, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, 2002.
• 2001
  • America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, Volume 1 ; Volume 2
    Neil J. Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, Editors; National Research Council, 2001.
  • Report on the Case of Dr. Saad Eddin Mohamed Ibrahim, Imprisoned Sociologist, Cairo, Egypt
    Committee on Human Rights, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, 2001.
  • Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues
    Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs, Constance F. Citro, Robert A. Moffitt, and Michele Ver Ploeg, Editors, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, 2001.

National Gambling Impact Study Commission

National Opinion Research Center
University of Chicago

• General Social Survey (GSS)
  • Data and Information Retrieval System
    "...for the codebook, the bibliography, project reports, on-line data analysis, a map of NORC sampling points, and more."
  • GSS Student Paper Competition. - (dead link)
• Gambling Impact and Behavior Study - (dead link)
  • Report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission - (dead link)

National Science Foundation

• Post-Attack Grants to Study Human, Social Responses to September 11 Crisis (October 5, 2001)

NetLaw Workshop Report
"The goal of the workshop was to identify the potential for furthering our understanding of social interactions via knowledge networking research, with a focus on the development of a new medium for research on social interactions: large-scale web-based experiments."
National Science Foundation

Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
"This social science dictionary has 1000 entries covering the disciplines of sociology, criminology, political science and women's study with a commitment to Canadian examples and events and names."

Pew Global Attitudes Project
- A Project of the PewResearchCenter

• The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other (June 2006)

Population Reference Bureau
"The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations."

Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

• "AIDS and the Elderly of Thailand: Projecting Familial Impacts." [.pdf]
  By Wachter, Kenneth W., John E. Knodel, and Mark VanLandingham
  Population Studies Center Research Report 00-446

Public Agenda Online
'For over a quarter of a century, Public Agenda has been providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life."

The Question Bank: Social Survey Online
"...holds the questionnaires for large scale social surveys which have a nationally representative sample and are generally conducted by a large and professional survey organisation."
Dept. of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

RAND Technical Reports (free downloads)

• Qatar Supreme Council for Family Affairs Database of Social Indicators : Final Report
  By Lynn Karoly and Michael Mattock, 2006.
• The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
  By: Kevin F. McCarthy, D. J. Peterson, Narayan Sastry, Michael Pollard, January 2006.

The Right Start: - (dead link)
Conditions of Babies and Their Families Across the Nation and in America's Largest Cities (2001)
"This Special Report allows you to generate your own profiles, line graphs, national maps, rankings, and raw data on how children born in each state as well as the nation's 50 largest cities fared on eight selected measures of a "right start." The data are provided for each year from 1990 to 1998 and data for the U.S. as a whole are presented to provide a point of comparison."
By Kids Count and Child Trends

Social Research Update

Social Science Paper Publisher (SSPP.net)
"...is an informal electronic journal serving as an academic resource and opportunity for scholars who would like to find a readership for broadly sociological work. The purpose of SSPP.net is to provide a publishing and research infrastructure."

Sociological Research Online

Sociology Timeline and Sociology Calendar
From 1600-
By Ed Stephan, Western Washington University

Surveillance & Society (ejournal)
"...the fully peer-reviewed transdisciplinary online surveillance studies journal."
Also includes a moderated Discussion Forum and an interactive Surveillance Studies Resource Base.

Theory & Science
"An Interdisciplinary, Peer-Reviewed Journal Devoted to the Discussion of Theory, Science, and Social Change."

Trimestrale - The Lab's Quarterly - (dead link)

UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)

• "Child Poverty in Rich Nations [.pdf]
• "Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls" [.pdf]

U.S. Census Bureau Publications - See Statistics - U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

• National Review Board, John Jay & Audit Reports
  • The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons (March 2004)
    A Research Study Conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, March 2004.
  • Press Conference for Release of Sex Abuse Studies [video]

U.S. Conference of Mayors

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• The Administration for Children and Families
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation
  • Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement - (dead link)

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Community Planning and Development (CPD)
  • Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR)
    "measures homelessness over time, allowing researchers to expand their body of knowledge beyond more limited estimates in the past. HUD unveiled new data from Continuums of Care (CoC) that indicates 754,000 persons are living in emergency shelter, transitional housing, and on the streets on any given night."

US Department of Justice

• Bureau of Justice Assistance
• • "Creating a New Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century:
    Findings and Results From State and Local Program Evaluations" [.pdf]
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
  • Contacts Between Police and the Public: Findings from the 1999 National Survey (March 2001)
  • Criminal Victimization 1999: Changes 1998-99 with Trends from 1993-99
  • Homicide Trends in the United States
  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98 (March 2001)
• Crime Mapping Research Center - Publications - (dead link)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
  • "Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women" [.pdf]
    Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey
  • "Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collections Systems:
    Promising Practices and Lessons Learned" [.pdf]

  • Toolkit To End Violence Against Women
    "To provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women, the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women developed the Toolkit To End Violence Against Women. The recommendations contained in the Toolkit were reviewed by numerous experts in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking ... Each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims."

U.S. Department of Labor

• Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • Current Population Survey
    "...is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides a comprehensive body of data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, and persons not in the labor force."
    • Profile of the Working Poor, 2000 (March 2002)
  • Employment Characteristics of Families (April 2001)
  • National Compensation Survey
  • Publications and Research Papers
    • Working in the 21st Century (March 2002)
      "...is a portrait of the U.S. workforce at the beginning of the New Millennium: a set of charts and related information about subjects ranging from education levels to retirement plans."
• Women's Bureau

U.S. Forest Service

• Atlas of Social and Economic Conditions and Change in Southern California (September 2001)
  General Technical Report PNW-GTR-516
  By Terry L. Raettig, Dawn M. Elmer, and Harriet H. Christensen.

U.S. Surgeon General

• Reports of the Surgeon General
  • Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General (January 2001)

University of Texas at Dallas - Bruton Center

• Windows on Urban Poverty:
  Describing and Mapping Concentrated Poverty in the 2000 Census
  "The web site allows you to create, print, and copy neighborhood level maps of any neighborhood in the United States on several demographic and economic variables."

An Urban Ethnography of Latino Street
Gangs in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties

The Urban Institute

• Teen Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait
• Changes in Risk-Taking among High School Students, 1991-1997:...
• Assessing the New Federalism
  "...a multi-year Urban Institute research project to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states, focusing primarily on health care, income security, job training, and social services."
  • National Survey of America's Families
    "...provides a comprehensive look at the well-being of adults and children and reveals sometimes striking differences among the 13 states studied in depth. The survey provides quantitative measures of the quality of life in America. It pays particular attention to low-income families."

Violence Policy Center
"Research, Analysis, and Advocacy for Effective Gun Policy"

• "A Deadly Myth: Women, Handguns, and Self-Defense"
  "This [2001] study presents data from the FBI and consists of three different analyses concerning women, handguns, and self-defense."
• "Gun Shows in America : Tupperware Parties for Criminals"
  "This is the full text of the July 1996 Violence Policy Center study...minus the study's appendices of gun show advertisements and Congressional testimony cited in its text."

See also Criminal Justice .

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