Directories

Sociology resources in the library
Sociological resources provided by the library of The University of Melbourne.

Sociosite
Sociological Information System based at the University of Amsterdam.

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
Includes Institutions - Departments, Associations & Organisations, Directories of Resources, Discussions: Newsgroups, Listservers, Chats, IRCs, Research Centres, Databases & Archives, Courses & Curricula Resources, Electronic Journals & Newsletters, Theories and Software Resources.

Australian Resources

The Australian Sociological Association
TASA promotes sociology in Australia and facilitates sociology research and teaching.

Clearinghouse for Asian Studies & Social Sciences Subject-Oriented Bibliographies - Australian National University
Keeps track of thematic bibliographies in the field of social sciences, Asian-Pacific Studies and humanities. Their goal is to compile a world-wide library of the best specialist research tools by tapping expertise and knowledge about these resources. To locate specific hypertext links you can use Irene - The Web Connections Finder

Coombsweb Social Sciences Server - Australian National University
The pioneer site for Asia-Pacific research and electronic publishing. Includes the database ANU-Coombspapers-Index and many links to other relevant resources.

Cyberspace Links
A limited, personal collection of links on the sociology of cyberspace. (University of Sydney, Australia).

Humanities Hub: Selected Resources for the Social Sciences and Humanities
A collection of links to quality sites that support or expand a researcher's current knowledge (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia).

Marxism Page
Here you can download the Marxist classics as plain text files, read introductions to Marxist politics, find contemporary Marxist material, listen to the Internationale or search all the Marxism pages.

Social Science Hub
A variety of --limited -- links to websites, newsgroups, data archives, news, and search tools. (Sociology & Anthropology JCU)

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."

International Sociological Association: Directory of Associations
Links to national and regional member organisations.

TASA: The Australian Sociological Association
Includes association newsletter, weblinks, conference information, publication information, grants and funding.

American Sociological Association
Comprehensive website with information for sociologists, students and members of the public.

British Sociological Association

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.

General

Yahoo's Sociology - Australia

Yahoo's Social Science/Sociology

About.com's Sociology Resource
Research Centres and 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".

The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research

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".

European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR)
Promotes sociological research within Europe and encourages co-operation between research centres.

Theory

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology - Sociological Theory and Theorists
Links to web sites for many Sociological Theorists from the WWW Virtual Library of Sociology.

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.

Map of Sociological Theory
Clickable map of major sociological theories providing biographical information on theorists, bibliographic information on key texts and works, and some links to further information.

Social Theory
Theory links from Sociology Resources on the Net. Separate pages for Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Rousseau and a section on postmodern theory.

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".

Electronic Journal of Sociology
"The EJS is offered free of charge to individuals, libraries, academic and commercial organizations. It is part of, and a model for, a new publishing paradigm whereby the scholars themselves retain control over all aspects of the scholarly communication process."

Reference

Dead Sociologist's Society
Biographical information for noted sociologists.

Homepages of Sociologists from Sociosite
Entries for each Sociologist include texts, books and articles and biography and bibliography.

A Sociology Timeline from 1600
An historical timeline with links to relevant texts and information.

REGARD
"REGARD is a searchable bibliographic database containing in-depth information on UK social science research."

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.

Sociology Dictionary
A short dictionary of some key sociological terms and thinkers. Maintained by the Sociology Department at Northumberland University College (UK)

Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms.
From the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts web site these terms are those used in Sociological Abstracts from 1986 onward.