ASA Section on Sociology of
Population - The purpose of the Section on Sociology of Population is to foster the
development of the study of population within the context of sociology.
ASA Section on Community and Urban
Sociology - Members of the section on Community and Urban Sociology explore new social
theory and develop empirical research on groups living, working, and communicating across
geographical boundaries, including cities, suburbs, and rural areas, as well as electronic
communities and other
spaces.
The Community Web - The Community Web
is the web site of the Section on Community & Urban Sociology
in the American Sociological Association.
www.urbsoc.org - This domain is maintained by Dr.
Chris Toulouse, assistant professor of Sociology, Hofstra University. Its purpose is to
explore educational uses of the world wide web, and to organize resources for studying the
impact of the Internet on society.
ASA Section on International Migration -
The purpose of the Section on International Migration is to stimulate, promote, and reward
the development of original theory and research on international migration. By providing a
forum for the
exchange of ideas and information, the Section aims to contribute to scholarly
collaboration and to a comprehensive understanding of the causes and consequences of
international migration, including the incorporation of immigrants in receiving societies.
Applied Social Data
Center - list of resources from the Department of Sociology, Central
Washington University.
U.S. Census Bureau -
The Census Bureau is headed by a Director, assisted by a Deputy Director and an Executive
Staff composed of the associate directors. The Bureau has 12 regional offices with
additional processing centers set up temporarily for the decennial censuses. The sole
purpose of the censuses and surveys is to secure general statistical information. Our
Mission - To be the preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality
data about the people and economy of the United States. Our Goal - To provide the best mix
of timeliness, relevancy, quality, and cost for the data we collect and services we
provide.
Demography &
Population Studies - WWW Virtual Library - The Internet Guide to Demography and
Population Studies. This facility is provided by the Demography Program of the Australian
National University to keep track of leading information facilities of value and/or
significance to researchers in the field of Demography.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development - HUD was born in 1965, but its history extends back to the
National Housing Act of 1934. Mission- A decent, safe, and sanitary home and suitable
living environment for every American including: Fighting for fair housing, Increasing
affordable housing & home ownership, Reducing homelessness, Promoting jobs and
economic opportunity, Empowering people and communities, and Restoring the public trust.
The
HungerWeb - the World Hunger Program is part of the Watson Institute of
International Studies at Brown University. The aim of this site is to help prevent and
eradicate hunger by facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the
causes of, and solutions to, hunger. It contains primary information, made available by
the World Hunger Program -- the prime sponsor of this site -- and its partners, as well as
links to other sites where information of relevance to hunger can be found.
InterAction - American
Council for Voluntary International Action - InterAction is a diverse coalition
of more than 160 US-based relief, development, environmental and refugee agencies working
in more than 100 countries around the world. Our agencies are also committed to a set of
rigorous ethical standards to ensure accountability to donors, professional competence and
quality of service.With headquarters in 25 states and grassroots chapters in many others,
our coalition members receive support from tens of millions of Americans nationwide.
National Home Of Your Own
Alliance - The National Home of Your Own Alliance is a partnership between the
Federal government and nationally recognized advocates and leaders whose goal is to create
housing and support opportunities that people choose and control. On September 1, 1993,
the Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) entered into a cooperative
agreement with the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire to create a
national information and technical assistance center on home ownership/control and
personalized support. This agreement was a natural progression from the Home of Your Own
demonstration projects funded by ADD to promote development of creative strategies for
achieving home ownership.
National Housing Institute
- The National Housing Institute is a 24-year old independent nonprofit organization that
examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America. NHI examines
the key issues affecting affordable housing and community development practitioners and
their supporters. These issues include housing, jobs, safety, and education, with an
emphasis on housing and economic development, as well as poverty and racism, disinvestment
and lack of employment, and breakdown of the social fabric.
Office of Population Research
- Princeton University - The Office of Population Research at Princeton
University is
the oldest population research center in the country. Founded in 1936, it has trained more
than a hundred students who
received doctoral degrees and more than a hundred others who received one-year
professional training.
Population Research Center -
The University of Texas at Austin - The Population Research Center has
developed into a major research center since it was formed in 1960. Numerous research
projects are conducted at the center, including projects supported by National Science
Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(NICHD), the National Institute on Aging, the Department of Labor, the US Department of
Health and Human Services, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Hogg
Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and
the MacArthur Foundation.
Population
Studies Center - the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center (PSC)
was established in 1961,
originally as a unit within the Department of Sociology. The Center has had close
connections to the Department of Economics since 1966. The Center has become increasingly
interdisciplinary over time, drawing faculty from Sociology, Economics, Anthropology,
Public Health, and Social Work.
Population
Studies Center Data Archive - The archive has made available over six gigabytes
of data on-line. The majority of these data files are intended for internal users only.
The lists that follow are provided only as references
for users at the Population Studies Center. Data that have been made available for public
use can be accessed through our anonymous FTP site: ftp.psc.lsa.umich.edu.
The Pennsylvania State
University - Population Research Institute - The Population Research Institute
provides an organizational setting for interdisciplinary population research and training.
The institute includes more than fifty research associates and sixty-five graduate
students from thirteen different departments in the social and agricultural sciences and
in health-related fields.
ReliefNet - ReliefNet is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping
humanitarian organizations raise global
awareness and encourage support for relief efforts via the Internet.
Rural and Small Town Programme
- Established in 1984, the Rural and Small Town Programme (RSTP) is an independent
university based research centre dedicated to exploring and resolving social,
environmental, and economic issues facing small communities in Canada. The Rural and Small
Town Programme (RSTP) prepares people and
organizations to adapt to change and to act on opportunities for developing sustainable
rural communities and small towns. The Programme links research and action by generating
and sharing new knowledge, developing self-help tools, and providing information and
educational services which lead to innovative approaches and solutions.
Rural Community Assistance
Corporation - Colorado Regional Training Institute - Rural Community Assistance
Corporation (RCAC) is dedicated to improving the quality of life for rural communities and
disadvantaged people through partnerships, technical assistance and access to resources.
RCAC strives to help community-based organizations and rural governments increase their
own capacity to implement solutions to their problems.
University of Californian at San
Diego Data Collection - The Data Services Unit of the Library of the University
of California, San Diego's mission To provide easy access to raw numeric data, allowing
each user to identify, locate, and obtain the data needed as quickly as possible for the
computing environment of his or her choice. What we do: Help users identify numeric data
computer readable formats; Acquire data for the library's collections; and Provide a
common user-interface to these datafiles and their documentation.
The Urban Institute -
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington,
D.C., in
1968. The Institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts
to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase
citizens' awareness about important public choices.
US Demography
- The Demography HomePage is part of an initiative to identify, document, and provide
simple access to demographic information concerning The United States of America. This
part describes the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)'s
data holdings and related information at Columbia University. This HomePage consists of a
series of cascading hypertext links providing access to national data resources, on-line
supporting documentation (codebooks, data dictionaries, citations), and possibly
extraction tools for data access, and you may connect to an anonymous ftp service for data
file retrieval.
Historical Census Data for the
United States 1790-1970 - The Instructional Computing Group of Harvard University, in
cooperation with Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the
University of Michigan, has made a subset of historical data from U.S. decennial censuses
from 1790 to 1970 available for forms-based querying on the web.
SSDAN - William Frey
of the University of Michigan has developed the Social Science Data Analysis Network
(SSDAN) for the purpose of bringing census data to the college classroom. Funded by NSF
and the Department of Education FIPSE, the Network enables college teachers to introduce
"user-friendly" analysis of census data in their classes. Tailor- made data
sets, from the 1950 through 1990 U.S. Censuses, and the Current Population Survey, can be
used in a variety of social science classes dealing with topics such as: race-ethnicity,
immigration, gender studies, marriage, households and poverty, U.S. income inequality,
children, the elderly and others.
The World Bank Group - Founded in 1944, the
World Bank Group consists of five closely associated institutions: the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD); International Development
Association (IDA), International Finance Corporation (IFC); Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency (MIGA); and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment
Disputes (ICSID). The mission is: To fight poverty with passion and professionalism for
lasting results; and To help people help themselves and their environment by providing
resources, sharing knowledge,
building capacity, and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.
The World Bank Data Page -
includes development goals, country data, data by topic, working with data, maps, data
publications, and news.
Immigration and Naturalization
Service - The Immigration and Naturalization Service is a Federal agency within the US
Department of Justice (DOJ) that administers the nation's immigration laws. The INS:
Conducts immigration inspections of travelers entering (or seeking entry) to the United
States as they arrive at officially designated ports of entry; Regulates permanent and
temporary immigration to the United States; Maintains control of U.S. borders; Identifies
and removes people who have no lawful immigration status in the United States.
Center for Immigration Studies - The Center for
Immigration Studies is a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded in 1985 and based
in Washington, D.C. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to
research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other
impacts of immigration on the United States.
Center for Migration Studies - The Center
for Migration Studies of New York (CMS), founded in New York in 1964, is one of the
premier institutes for migration studies in the United States. It is committed to
facilitating the study of sociodemographic, historical, economic, political, legislative
and pastoral aspects of human migration and refugee
movements.
The Immigration History Research Center - Founded in 1965, the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC)
at the University of Minnesota is an international resource on American immigration and
ethnic history. The IHRC collects, preserves, and makes available archival and published
resources documenting immigration and ethnicity on a national scope. These materials are
particularly rich for ethnic groups that originated in eastern, central, and southern
Europe and the Near East--those who came to this country during the great wave of
migration that gained momentum in the 1880s and peaked in the first decades of this
century.
The Immigration Public Policy Center (IPPC) Institute
-The IPPC pursues aggressive research and publishes studies through Issue Papers, which
examine and address immigration and related issues. In addition, the IPPC acts as a spokes
center for immigration public policy issues through special forums and symposia to foster
and focus
immigration debate within the region of Denver.
Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies -
The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies is an interdisciplinary research institute
of the University of Amsterdam which has existed since 1994. The research programme
promotes the encounter and - where possible - the integration of different perspectives
and therefore co-operates with the Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, Communication
Science, Political Science, Social Geography, Economic Geography, Econometrics, and
Administrative Law and the Department of Socal and Economic History. The research
programme of IMES focuses on the Dutch case with specific attention given to the City of
Amsterdam, but from an international and comparative perspective.
