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Directories

Sociosite
Sociological Information System based at the University of Amsterdam.
url: http://www.sociosite.net

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
Includes Institutions - Departments, Associations & Organizations ,Directories of Resources Discussions: Newsgroups, Listservs, Chats, IRCs, Research Centres'., Databases & Archives Courses & Curricula Resources, Electronic Journals & Newsletters, Theories and Software Resources.
url: http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/

Immigration, Migration & Demography Internet Guide
University of Sydney Library Internet Resource Guide to Immigration and Migration Resources on the Internet. This guide includes information relating to refugees, detention centres and people smuggling. The resources are from both governmental and non governmental organisations.
http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/subjects/socialwork/immigration.html

Professional Organisations

International Sociological Association
International organisation whose aim is to "..represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world."
url: http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/

International Sociological Association: Directory of Associations
Links to national and regional member organisations.
url: http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/colmemb/colmemb.htm

TASA: The Australian Sociological Association
Includes association newsletter, welinks, conference & publication information and grants and funding.
url: http://www.tasa.org.au/

American Sociological Association
Comprehensive website with information for sociologists, students and members of the public.
url: http://www.asanet.org/

Academic Websites

University of Sydney. Department of Sociology and Social Policy.
Staff and research profiles and course information. There is also a Resource Guide for Norbert Elias and Process Sociology.
url: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/social/

University of New South Wales. School of Sociology.
url: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/sociology/

Macquarie University. Department of Sociology.
url: http://www.soc.mq.edu.au/

Sociosite Directory of Sociology Departments around the world.
Directory is organised by region and country.
url: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/socdeps/index.html

Research Centres & Institutes

Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.
University of Sydney Research Institute whose aim is "to collaborate with University faculties and departments to create a vigorous multi-disciplinary research environment for staff, research fellows and students, and to contribute to postgraduate and postdoctoral training.
url: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/rihss/

The Centre for Cross-cultural Research
url: http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/

Institute of Social Change and Critical Inquiry (ISCCI)
Based at the University of Wollongong this Institute committed to "committed to internationally recognised research in the Humanities and Social Sciences."
url: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/joscci/index.html

European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR)
Promotes sociological research within Europe and encourages co-operation between research centres.
url: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/fsw/ecsr/

Theory

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology- Sociological Theory and Theorists
Links to web sites for many Sociological Theorists from the WWW Virtual Library Sociology.
url: http://www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/theories.htm

Theory form Sociosite.
Links to major sociological theory and methodology including Anomie Marxism, Chaos Theory, Ethnomethodology Rational Choice, Game Theory, Knowledge, Sociobiology, Sociologists, Sociolinguistics, Interaction, Methodology.
url: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/theory.html

Map of Sociological Theory
Clickable map of major sociological theories providing bigraphical information on theorists, bibliographic information on key texts and works, and some links to further information.
url: http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/theory.htm

CTheory: Electronic journal of culture and theory
"CTHEORY is an international journal of theory, technology and culture. Articles, interviews, and key book reviews in contemporary discourse are published weekly as well as theorisations of major "event-scenes" in the mediascape"
url: http://www.ctheory.net/

Methodology

Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods.
Directory of resources for different research methodologies including research methods tutorials, web resources, courses, concept mapping projects and research.
url: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/research/reshome.htm

Reference

Dead Sociologist's Society
Biographical indormation for noted sociologists
url: http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/DEADSOC.HTML

Homepages of Sociologists from Sociosite
Entries for each Sociologist include texts, books and articles and biography and bibliography.
url: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/sociologists.html

A Sociology Timeline from 1600
An historical timeline with links to relevant texts and information. Compiled and maintained by Ed Stephan.
url: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/timeline.html

Social Research Update
University of Surrey (UK) resource which provides access to articles by social science researchers on a range of practical and theoretical research issues.
url: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/sru.html

From the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts web site these terms are those used in Sociological Abstracts from 1986 onward.
url: http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/sociothes.php