Sociolgy: The companion website
This is the online companion to the Macionis text used in the Introduction to Sociology courses. There is a great deal of useful information on the site.
Social Problems: The companion website
This is the online companion to the Henslin text used in the Introduction to Sociology courses. There is a great deal of useful information on the site.
InfoTrac: Opposing Viewpoints Resources
This site gives you access to articles written about a variety of social issues and other topics. You may find the site useful when looking for sources for papers, etc.
National Resources for Information on Underage Drinking: National Resources
This site will give links to National Organizations that deal with Underage Drinking issues.
Office of Post-Secondary Education: Campus Security Statistics
You can use this site to look up the number and types of crimes that are committed on college and university campuses across the country.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
This searches the NCJRS web site and the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs* and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
* The Office Justice Programs includes the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Office for Victims of Crime.
...search the archives of more than 300 periodicals, back to 1998, for full-text articles of interest
Mid-South Sociological Association
If you are planning to major in Sociology and are going to attend a university in this area, you should think about joining this organization.
This is another regional association that Sociology majors should consider. Also, there is a link on their homepage to the online portion of the Social Forces journal. The information you find here may be of help when writing papers.
American Sociological Association
You can get good information about what Sociology is and what is going on in the discipline. From the "Student" section, you can also follow a link to find out the names of famous people who majored in Sociology!
The Society for the Study of Social Problems
If you are interested in Social Problems, this site will give you information about what is going on at the national level.
This page will give you links to several places to get information on APA writing style. There is also a link in the list for MLA style, in case your major requires that you use this style.
Examples of APA formatting styles for electronic material
This page will take you directly to American Psychological Association's webpage for examples on how to site electronic material.
This site will take you to the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) home page. If you are on campus or at a public library, follow the "Campus and Library" link; if you are anywhere else, you should follow the "Home Access" link. In order to use the "Home Access" link, you will need a User ID and password.
To get an ID and password, you will need to go either to your local branch of the public library or the Campus Library and obtain an AVL card. The AVL card is free. You will not be able to access AVL from off campus without the ID and password that comes on your AVL card. If you would like to obtain an AVL card from the Campus Library, please see Ms. McMillian in the Main Campus Library.
This site is the online portion of the Mobile Public Library System
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This will link you to the online version of the Library of Congress
This link will take you to the homepage of the World Wide Web virtual library with resources for a variety of subjects. Follow this link to go directly to the Social Sciences page.
This site provides free access to online books by a variety of authors.
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