The Essential Sociologist

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1. Updates on the latest Urban Legends and Myths at: http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/. Students can see how rumors, myths, and legends get started.

Chapter 1

1. Visit the Sociology Cafe at http://www.sociologycafe.org. For the Social Sciences in general: http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Sociology/.

2. Visit the Dead Sociologists' Society at: http://2.pfeiffer.edu/~DSS/DEADSOC.HTML.

3. To explore sociological theorists and writers, dead and alive: http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/theories.htm.

4. For statistical data and research sources see: http://www.usi.edu/LIBARTS/SOCIO/Stats.htm.

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Chapter 2

1. For a global trip of the world's cultures visit: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/, http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cultures/, and http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/WORLD.HTM.

2. Culture, Subcultures, Countercultures and Cultural Diversity, Promoting cultural relativism and combating ethnocentrism see: http://www.primarysource.org/ it tries to bring American history and world cultures to life.

3. For the Sociology of Culture and Subcultures, visit: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/5889/culture.htm and http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/. Visit the following sites for examples of different subcultures: http://members.aol.com/maggyblu/rocky1.htm to see how one sociologist studied the subculture of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." View a new subculture in the making, cyberculture at: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/intro.html.

4. Find out how the U.S. government bureaucracy works at: http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=00339000.

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Chapter 3

1. Socialization: http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/general/socialization/168108.html

offers a slide show on socialization, the major theorists, and a discussion of the effects of isolation on children including Genie.

2. For issues on children and health care see http://www.beritsbest.com/SeriousStuff/Health/index.shtml. http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/ is the consortium for children, youth, and family well-being.

3. http://www.kidpower.org/helps children and teen empower themselves at school and in their neighborhoods. Helping children become good citizens: http://www.hud.gov/kids/.

4. For reports on media and development see: http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/Media/effects.html and http://www.kff.org/content/1999/1535/.

5. For international youth connections go to http://www.yesintl.com/title2.htm.

6. For more links related to children see: http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Children/.

7. Deviance, Sociological theories and perspectives on deviance can be found at: http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/crim.htm, http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/5889/index.htm. A deviance map is available at: http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/devmap.htm.

8. A selection of readings on deviance and links to other related sites can be found at: http://www.extend.indiana.edu/courses/soc/socs320b/lesson1/disc1a.htm.

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Chapter 4

1. Explore the history of sexuality at: http://www.historychannel.com/sex/.

2. The International Lesbian and Gay Association is at http://www.ilga.org/default.html.
For Women, Feminism, and Sexuality, there are many links to sites dealing with sexual, gay/lesbian, and reproductive issues: http://www.feminist.com/repro.htm.

3. The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality can be found at: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/ssss. The Kinsey Institute is at: http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/.

4. Go to The Allen Gutmacher Institute for the latest statistics, research, and information on procreation, contraception, and abortion: http://www.agi-usa.org and http://www.plannedparenthood.org/Library/SEXUALITYEDUCATION.

5. Try http://www.ronsangels.com/ which advertises a service to buy eggs and sperm for infertility treatments.

6. For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Resources on the Web: http://www.ccp.arizona.edu/users/tallman/gay.htm.

7. For discussion of and information on Transgender issues and the intersexed see: http://www.ifge.org/ and http://www.gendersanity.com/index.shtml as well as http://www.gender.org/resources/links.html, http://www.transfeminism.org/, and http://www.sonic.net/~cisae/.

8. Websites on Gay Rights: http://www.actwin.com/eatonohio/gay/world.htm
and http://www.taasa.org/library/gay_lesbian/gay_lesbian__rights.htm. Information document on the rights of lesbians: http://ffq.qc.ca/marche2000/en/di_lesbi/index.html. International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission http://www.iglhrc.org/.

9. Sites dealing with violence against women and children, rape, and sexual harassment: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/about.htm, http://www.now.org/issues/violence/index.html, http://www.vix.com/pub/men/harass/harass.html, and http://www.rainn.org/.

10. For more information on sexual issues, visit the following: Get advice on sexual issues from http://www.msnbc.com/news/SEXPLORATIONH_Front.asp. On sexual Health:
http://content.health.msn.com/living_better/sxy and http://www.sexhealth.org/. For fun and advice, Dr. Ruth is at http://webcenter.drruth.aol.com/DrRuth/. For general sex education and sex and disability see the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.: http://www.siecus.org/pubs/biblio/bibs0009.html.

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Chapter 5

1. Almost any information on the economy is easily accessible from a variety of government sites: For economic indicators go to: http://www.whitehouse.gov.fsbr/esbr.html. The Department of Labor address is: http://www.dol.gov. Federal Reserve Board: http://www.federalreserve.gov/. The U.S. budget figures are at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/. Congressional Budget Office can be found at: http://www.cbo.gov/.

2. SES indicators can be found at http://census.org. Work force statistics can be found at: http://stats.bls.gov. For more employment data: http://bls.gov/cesprog.htm.

3. Poverty guidelines, research, and measurement: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/poverty/poverty.htm.

4. For statistics on the economic health of families see: http://www.census.gov/. The Joint Center for Economic Research's site has information on welfare issues: http://www.jcpr.org.

5. Who are the richest 400 people in America? Go to: http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/rich400/.

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Chapter 6

1. For numerous links for resources on race and ethnicity see: http://www.mosaicweb.com/ and http://eserver.org/race/default.html.

2. For an interactive discussion of racial and ethnic identities go to: http://members.aol.com/Jakajk/Oneworld.html.

3. On Immigration http://library.thinkquest.org/26786/en/home/help.php3. http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl is The WWW Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Issues Reach the INS at: http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/.

4. Living in a Multicultural Society: http://racerelations.about.com/newsissues/. Teaching about diversity: http://create.familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,3-3374,00.html. On racial stereotypes in the media: http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/minrep/getinvolved/kidtalk.htm. On reducing prejudice and discrimination: http://www.hatewatch.org/index1.html and http://www.adl.org/.

5. Websites for race/ethnic groups in the United States: Native American websites: http://www.pitt.edu/~lmitten/indians.html and http://www.nativeweb.org/. The U.S Bureau of Indian Affairs can be found at: http://www.ios.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html.

6. African Americans: http://www.africana.com, http://www.blackplanet.com, and http://www.blackfacts.com. Association for the Study of African American Life and History: http://www.artnoir.com/asalh. Africans in America: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aiaold/home.html.

7. Asian Americans: http://www.AsianAvenue.com/, http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/i/r/irie/www/aar.html, http://www.seacaef.org/, and http://asiapacificuniverse.com/.

8. Latinos: http://www.latino.com/, http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ecuapita/latam.html,
and http://www.latinworld.com/index.html.

9. Middle Easterners: http://wizard.ucr.edu/~skiasatp/mideast.html, http://commhum.mccneb.edu/mpaul/newpage1.htm, and http://www.peachnet.edu/galileo/internet/area/mideast.html.

For website links for Religious Minorities see Chapter 12

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Chapter 7

1. Sociologists for Women in Society with links to other websites: http://www.socwomen.org.

2. On Toys, Colors, and Invisible Sexism: http://ucs.orst.edu/~huj/512/.

3. Women and education: http://www.aauw.org/2000/research.html.

4. Women in Politics: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/.

5. Women in Business: http://www.catalystwomen.org.

6. Global activism http://www.womenswire.net and http://www.womenswire.org. Women and International Development http://www.isp.msu.edu/WID/. Women of color http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/WoC/.

7. Men's issues: http://www.vix.com/pub/men/index.html. NOMAS: The National Organization for Men Against Sexism: http://www.nomas.org.

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Chapter 8

1. Kinship: http://daphne.palomar.edu/kinship/.

2. Family Resources: http://osiris.colorado.edu/SOC/RES/family.html, http://www.familydiscussions.com/, http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/index.htm, and http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/baschap6.cfm#marr.

3. Household Statistics: http://www.census.gov/. Latino Families: http://www.elclick.com/. Asian American Families: http://www.cacf.org/. African American Families: http://www.blackfamilies.com and http://www.blackparenting.com/main.shtml.

4. Family Violence: http://www.famvi.com/ and http://www.silcom.com/~paladin/madv/.

5. Divorce: http://www.divorcenet.com/. Children and divorce: http://www.muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/hesguide/humanrel/gh6600.htm.

6. Interracial Relationships and Families: http://www.purdue.edu/humanrel/intdatresources.html and http://www.csbc.cncfamily.com/.

7. Cohabiting: http://hometown.aol.com/cohabiting. Domestic Partnerships: http://208.178.40.104/cgi-bin/pages/issues/record?record=3 and http://www.aclu.org/issues/gay/dpmodel.html. To see locate the full text of The Defense of Marriage Act, go to: http://thomas.loc.gov/.

8. Resources for single parents: http://www.singlemoms.org/ and http://single-parents.somewhere.net/.

9. Working Families Resources - Dual earner and dual career couples: http://workingfamilies.berkeley.edu/ and http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/orgs/sloan/papers.html.

10. The Family Life Cycle: http://www.blcc.cornell.edu/.

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Chapter 9

1 - 4. Find out information on job growth at the Department of Labor's website: http://www.dol.gov/.

5. Information for workers: http://www.workers.gov.

6. Organized Labor websites: AFL-CIO: http://www.aflcio.org/. International Labor Organization: http://www.ilo.org. For links to other labor organizations, see: http://www.michaelmoore.com/newlinks.html.

7. Women and Labor unions: http://www.aflcio.org/women/.

8. Affirmative Action Facts and Myths: http://www.essential.org/ussa/foundati/aamyths.html and http://www.feminist.org/other/ccri/aafact_menu.html. Gender Diversity in the work place: http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/gender.htm. Women and minority-owned business information: http://www.census.gov/csd/mwb/1992/.

9. On corporate welfare: http://www.corporations.org/welfare/.

10. - 12. For an example of corporate culture, go to IBM's employment website: http://www-3.ibm.com/employment/us/.

13. See the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website for and example of corporate philanthropy: http://www.gatesfoundations.org/Default.htm.

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Chapter 10

1. Websites on various governmental forms: For information on democracy to communism see http://www.cyberenet.net/~lking/. On democratic socialism: http://socialist.org/base.html.

2. For the core documents of American democracy see: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html.

3. The American Civil Liberties organization has a website with information on First Amendment Rights at: http://www.aclu.org/.

4. Issues related to censorship can be found at: http://www.ala.org/bbooks/ and http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html.

5. Get information and Go vote: http://govote.speakout.com/index.asp.

6. See the Common Cause website, a PAC watchdog: http://www.commoncause.org/. A directory of Federal PACs can be found at: http://www.pacfinder.com/afp2000/. PAC political campaign donations are listed at: http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/.

7. The Democracy network run by the League of Women Voters provides election information: http://www.dnet.org/.

8. On the gender gap in voting: http://www.feminist.org/research/report/84_seven.html and http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/.

9. Excerpts from C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Book_Excerpts/PowerElite.html.

10. United States Military Websites: The Department of Defense: http://www.defenselink.mil/. Home pages of the American Military Forces: The Army: http://www.army.mil/. The Air Force: http://www.usafa.af.mil/. The Navy: http://www.navy.mil/. The Marines: http://www.usmc.mil/. The Coast Guard: http://www.cga.edu/. Military Families: resources: http://www.nmfa.org/ and research: http://mfi.marywood.edu/.

11. Racial/ Ethnic groups and the military: http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/aa_mh.htm, http://www.mosaicweb.com/afric_military.htm, http://www.africana.com/tt_235.htm, and http://www.americanpatrol.com/DUALCITIZENSHIP/armygedcaldera011499.html.

12. Women in the Military: http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/women/womtoc.htm, http://www.gendergap.com/military.htm, and http://www.minervacenter.com/.

13. Gays in the Military: http://members.aol.com/co501boy/BGL.htm, and http://www.california.com/~rathbone/links001.htm.

14. Sexual Harassment in the Military: http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/sex/haras.htm.

15. The Military Industrial Complex: A Report at http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/papers/micr/.

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Chapter 11

1. General education informational sites: Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/. For research and statistics on education In America: http://www.ed.gov/stats.html. Data from the Census: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education.html. Educational Resources Center: http://www.accesseric.org/. The American Educational Research Association: http://www.aera.net/. National Education Association: http://www.nea.org/. The United States Student Association: http://www.essential.org/ussa/ussa.html. To follow educational policy in the news nationally and locally: http://www.edweek.org/.

2. National Coalition for Parental Involvement in education: http://www.ncpie.org/.

3. Center for Educational Reform: http://edreform.com/. The National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) is a unique bipartisan and intergovernmental body of federal and state officials created in July 1990 to assess and report state and national progress toward achieving the National Education Goals. For their website go to: http://www.negp.gov/.

4. School Vouchers - for and against: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state/vouchers.html and http://www.rethinkingschools.org/Links/vouclink.htm.

5. On Charter Schools: http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/digests/dig119.html.

6. On Home Schooling: http://www.caro.net/~joespa/ and http://www.n-h-a.org/.

7. Gender and Education: http://www.aauw.org/2000/research.html.

8. Gender Equity in Sports and Title IX: http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/.

9. Race and Education: For reports on Minorities and educational experiences and issues see: http://resi.tamu.edu/publications.html. On Blacks in Higher Education: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/economics/. The Dynamics of Race in Higher education including issues on testing and use of test scores for admissions: http://www.aacc.nche.edu/services/MRC/dynamics_of_race_in_higher_educa.htm.

10. Testing: The Educational Testing Service which administers S.A.T.s is located at: http://www.ets.org/.

11. On cooperative learning: http://www.clcrc.com/.

12. For Higher Education News see the Chronicle of Higher Education at: http://www.chronicle.com/. http://www.acenet.edu/ is the website of the American Council on Education, an advocacy group for Higher Education. For information and resources related to Higher Education, go to ERIC: http://www.eriche.org/main.html.

13. See http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/corank.htm for a popular ranking of American colleges and universities.

14. For information and resources on community colleges: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/ and http://www.aacc.nche.edu/.

15. On the Open Admissions controversy see: The Report to the Mayor of New York City, 1999: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/cuny/html/admissions.html. Study on Open Admissions and consequences for ending it: http://www.soc.qc.edu/ufs/Lavin.htm.

16. For affirmative action myths and facts: http://www.essential.org/ussa/foundati/aamyths.html. Report to the President on Affirmative Action: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/aa/aa-index.html.

17. For a site promoting distance learning K-12 and in higher education, see: http://www.usdla.org/.

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Chapter 12

1. Some general sites with links for information on many religious traditions: http://home.about.com/religion/index.htm?PM=59_0239_T and http://www.edunet.ie/resources/religion.html which gives data and statistics on membership in world religious traditions with links to official sites such as the Vatican at http://www.vatican.va/ and the World Council of Churches at http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/english.html. http://www.religion-online.org/ is a site giving access to hundreds of sacred texts and links to other sites on religion.

2. For a site on early earth goddess religions, go to: http://www.mothergoddess.com/.

3. For an archive for studying American religion: http://www.arda.tm. A religion news service can be found at: http://www.religionnews.com/.

4. For African American, Afro-Caribbean, and African religious traditions: http://afroamculture.about.com/culture/afroamculture/msub23.htm.

5. The American Humanist Association is at: http://www.infidels.org/org/aha/ and the Council for Secular Humanism is at: http://www.secularhumanism.org/.

6. The Promise Keepers: http://www.promisekeepers.org/.

7. On women and religion: http://www.academicinfo.net/religwom.html. For an extensive bibliography on women and religion online go to: http://www.newvision-psychic.com/bookshelf/womenspirit.html.

8. On Wicca: http://www.cog.org/general/iabout.html.

9. The Unification Church's website is at: http://unification.org/.

10. Scientology's official site can be found at: http://www.scientology.org/home.html.

11. On New Age Religions: http://members.aol.com/theloego/welcome/index.html.

12. http://www.religioustolerance.org/welcome.htm#new is a site promoting religious tolerance by providing unbiased information about religion and religious groups.

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Chapter 13

1-2. For Crime Theories see: http://www.crimetheory.com/.

3. http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/5889/index.htm is the site of the National Criminal Justice Research Service. This is one of world's largest sources of criminal and juvenile justice statistics. Here you will find information on the criminal justice system, courts, crime, and corrections: http://www.ncjrs.org/homepage.htm. American Society of Criminology: http://www.asc41.com/. This site shows how to access and use crime statistics: http://www.crime.org/. The FBI can be accessed at: http://www.fbi.gov/. Uniform Crime Reports on the FBI site are at: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr.htm. For the U.S. Department of Justice statistics with links to other sources, go to: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov. For more links, organizations, and journals that are focus on crime and deviance see: http://www.runet.edu. For Criminology links including types of crime and statistics: http://www.middlebury.edu.

4. The Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms site on guns and gun use in the United States is at: http://www.atf.treas.gov/firearms/index.htm.

5. For a guide to gun laws, federal and state, see: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gunlaw.htm.

6. For a Justice department report on female criminals and women in prison see: http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/prisons/wom93 and http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/wopris.htm.

7. National Center on Crime and Delinquency reports on juvenile crime: http://www.nccd-crc.org/.

8. For a site which tracks global organized crime see: http://www.csis.org/goc/taskfina.html. For consequences of global organized crime: http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/hpages/crime/text3.htm. This Department of Defense gives access to information on international organized crime and the drug trade: http://www.dso.com/.

9. The National White Collar Crime Center provides information and statistics as well as advice on prevention of white collar crime: http://www.iir.com/nwccc/default.htm.

10. For information and statistics on prisons, see: http://www.bop.gov/.

11. Drugs, drug use, and the war on drugs: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/. In addition to the above governmental sites, see: http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/, http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome1.html, http://www.drugsense.org/, and http://www.csdp.org/.

12a. Sites for and about police and policing issues: http://www.officer.com/, http://police.sas.ab.ca/. http://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal/bustcardtext.html also contains information on abuses by private police. http://www.leolinks.com/ is a directory of law enforcement sites.

12b. Website for the U.S. Court System: http://www.uscourts.gov/.

13. On capital punishment: http://www.amnesty.org.

14. On prisons: http://www.bop.gov/. For sites related to the debate over prisons and prison conditions: http://www.prisonactivists.org/pc/links.html, http://www.hrw.org/advocacy/prisons/, http://www.prisonactivist.org/, http://www.cjlf.org/, and http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/.

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Chapter 14

1. The following are excellent sources for epidemiological statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm.

2. For health and health care in the United States: http://www.os.dhhs.gov/ and http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/health.html. For a fact sheet from the CDC on life expectancy and mortality rates, go to: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/98facts/98sheets/finmort.htm for children's health status contributing to higher life expectancy: http://www.childstats.gov/ac2000/hlthtxt.asp.

3. Gender and mortality rates: http://www.4woman.gov/ and http://www.snowcrest.net/freemanl/women/atlas/index.html#home.

4. Minority Health: http://www.omhrc.gov/. Statistics on African American population, health, and mortality rates: http://www.afroamerhealthdata.com/vital.html.

5. Mental Health: http://www.nmha.org/.

6. The American Medical Association can be found at: http://www.ama-assn.org/.

7. The American Women's Medical Association is at: http://www.amwa-doc.org/. Their journal site can be found at: http://www.jamwa.org/top.htm, which includes articles on health issues for women and minorities.

8. http://www.aabhs.org/welcome.htm is the site for the Association for the Advancement of Blacks in the Health Sciences. For reports on minorities in medicine: http://www.aamc.org/about/progemph/diverse/releases.htm.

9. Medicine as business: http://www.managedcaremag.com/.

10. The Food and Drug Administration is at: http://www.fda.gov/.

11. For hospital information, see: http://www.aha.org/default.asp.

12. The American Nursing Association can be found at: http://www.ana.org/.

13. Medicare and medicaid: http://www.medicare.gov/ and http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/medicaid.htm.

14. Managed Health Care links: http://www.managedhealthlinks.com/. Negotiating various forms of health care: http://www.ring.com/health/health/health.htm.

15. HMO information: http://www.hmopage.org/.

16. For Information on AIDS: Global information: http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/hiv/.

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Chapter 15

1. For the latest numbers, see the world population clock at the U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw.

2. - 3. For more information on world population and demographics: http://www.prb.org/. For links to demographic sites and journals on demography, go to: http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Sociology/Demography/. The United Nations statistics on population can be found at: http://www.popin.org/pop1998/. For population control issues, see: http://www.popcouncil.org/ and The UNICEF site tracks fertility rates at: http://www.unicef.org/pon95/fami0005.html.

4. For AIDS and population issues, see: http://www.popin.org/pop1998/6.htm.

5. A virtual demography library can be found at: http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/.

6. The ZPG site can be found at: http://www.zpg.org/.

7. POPLINE allows you to do your own research on population, health, and family planning issues: http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/index.stm. For an overview of the United Nations’ Cairo Conference on issues related to population growth and development, see: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/cairo.html.

8. For information on refugees, go to: http://www.unhcr.ch/.

9. The following site allows you to build your own population pyramids: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html.

10. http://www.xist.org/ allows you to explore the demographics of many different countries and their development, wealth, natural resources, etc.

11 - 12. For a discussion on issues of consumption, go to: http://www.enviroweb.org/issues/enough/enough02.htm.

13 -14. Facts and figures on global warming can be found at: http://www.globalwarming.net/. The World Meteorological Association which monitors air pollution and ozone depletion is at: http://193.135.216.2/.

15 - 16. http://library.envirolink.org/ has links related to all the issues discussed in our environmental section http://www.balance.org/ is a grassroots organization in the U.S. devoted to issues of environmental justice.

17. For rural life and development, see: http://www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/pdf/rdp/rdp.htm.
Can we rebuild urban areas? See http://www.brook.edu/pa/policyupdates/gore/gore.htm.

18. See http://celebration.nm1.net/ for Disney's idea of an old/new town, Celebration. For an assessment of Disney's new town, Celebration, go to: http://www.e-architect.com/pia/rudc/celebra.asp.

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Chapter 16

1. For links to sites on and about social movements and social change, see: http://sg.yahoo.com/social_science/sociology/collective_behaviour/.

2. Sites related to the Holocaust: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/. http://www.academicinfo.net/histholo.html is an academic site on holocaust studies with links to other related sites. The Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance has links to other sites dealing with other genocidal events and ethnic cleansing along with links about hate groups in the U.S and internationally: http://www.wiesenthal.com/. Data on the Romany people (Gypsies) and the Holocaust can be found at: http://198.62.75.1/www2/gypsies.net/RemDG.html and http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/holcaust.htm which has links to other sites. For information on "ethnic cleansing" see Amnesty International's site: http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/kosovo/.

3. For a trip to the Industrial Revolution to see how it changed society, go to: http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html. This site gives a chronology of the Industrial Revolution and links to other technological changes that affected modern society in profound ways: http://campus.northpark.edu/history//WebChron/WestEurope/IndRev.html.

4. Social Movements and Mass Communications: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/5889/.

5. The latest urban myths and legends can be found at: http://www.urbanmyths.com/.

6. For information on the Shakers, see http://www.shakers.org/, and for hippies, go to: http://www.therumbles.net/hippies/.

7. Go to http://www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/~gyedb/STILE/t0000270.html for information on and links to sites about the histories of various kinds of social movements.

8. For another "blast from the past" go to: http://www.slip.net/~scmetro/sixties.htm.

9. For the history of the Civil Rights Movement: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/intro.htm with links to many other sites.

10. The Women's Movement: http://www.now.org/ and http://www.feminist.org/. http://eserver.org/feminism/activism/activism.html for links to other groups in the women's movement. For an extensive list of links to women in history, go to: http://info-s.com/history-w.html. For resources on the Second Wave of the Women's movement: http://www.nau.edu/wst/access/2ndwav/2ndwavsub.html. A site on woman's suffrage is: http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html

11. For news on social change, the religious right and other social movements, go to: http://www.igc.org/datacenter/culture.htm.

12. For information on hate groups and links to websites, see http://www.publiceye.org/.

13. For a history of the development of the Internet, see http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html. For an atlas of Cyberspace, go to http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html.

14. To find out about Cyberspace Law and Policy, see http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html.

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