Sociology Organizations & Centers

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American Sociological Association
Includes the ever important Employment Bulletin

Arab Social Science Research (ASSR)
Includes a listing of Research Centers and a Virtual Library that is indexed by Country, Resource, and Topic.

Brookings Institution

• Center on Social and Economic Dynamics (CSED)
  • Working Paper Series - (dead link)
• Economic Studies
  • Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Canada - National Research Council Canada

• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

Center for Survey Research
Indiana University

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
University of Colorado

Center for the Study of Group Processes
University of Iowa

Centre for Research into Sport & Society
Leicester University

Disaster Research Center
University of Delaware

Drugscope
"DrugScope is one of the UK's leading centres of expertise on drugs. Our aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related risk. We provide quality drug information, promote effective responses to drug taking, undertake research at local, national and international levels, advise on policy-making, encourage informed debate and speak for our members working on the ground."

Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate

Indiana University - Institute of Social Research

Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Institute for Policy Research
University of Cincinnati

Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty
Weingart Center
"...the Institute is a nonprofit organization that seeks to facilitate access to accurate data and research about homelessness and poverty, focusing principally on Southern California but also indexing and producing materials of national importance. All of our services are free of charge."

Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)

Institute of Industrial Relations
University of California, Berkeley

Institute of Sociology - Prague

Kunz Center for the Study of Work and Family
University of Cincinnati

Murray Research Center
Radcliffe College

Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada

National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS)

National Center for Children in Poverty

National Gambling Impact Study Commission

National Resource Center On Homelessness and Mental Illness

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

Public Agenda Online
Public Opinion and Public Policy

Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology

SociÈtÈ internationale de sociologie des religions / International Society for the Sociology of Religion (SISR/ISSR)

Trinity College - Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST)
  • MOST Urban Issues: Urban Development and Governance

U.S. Department of Justice

• Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)
• Crime Mapping Research Center

University of Chicago - National Opinion Research Center

University of Connecticut - The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

University of Essex [UK] - Institute for Social & Economic Research
"It specialises in the production and analysis of longitudinal data - evidence which tracks changes in the lives of the same individuals over time."

University of Michigan - Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

University of Pennsylvania - Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society

University of Texas at Dallas - Bruton Center

The Urban Institute

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