Links for Students

Culture

• Derek Abbot's Animal Sounds
• Yankee or Dixie?
• Voices of Children
• Don't Gross Out the World

Theory

• Modern Social Theorists
• Great Social Theorists
• Social Theorist Timeline

Inequality

• Tolerance

Economic or Class Inequality

• People Like Us
• Economic Policy Institute
• Poverty in America--Be sure to take the poverty tour
• The Living Room Scale

Global Inequality

• Miniature Earth

 Racial and Ethnic Inequality

• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Where Race Lives
• Anti-Defamation League
• White Privilege

Aging and Life Course

• The Life Expectancy Calculator

Health

• Center for Disease Control & Prevention
• World Health Organization

Population

• The U.S. Census

Politics

• Know your government
• Bill of Rights
• Project Vote Smart
• Who Rules America?

Environment

• Google Earth
• An Inconvenient Truth
• Earth 911

Religion

• Belief.net
• The Association of Religious Data Archives

Work

• AFL-CIO
• Department of Labor
• Department of Commerce
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Why work?

Violence

• Project NoSpank

Social Change

• Idealist
• The Better World Handbook
• Global Ideas Bank

War

• My War Tax
• Cost of War
• Casualties in Iraq

Research Methods

• Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971

Visual Sociology

• A Moment in Time

Potpourri

• Dynamic Data
• Gap Minder
• Historical Maps of the United States
• Glossary of Social Science
• Country Studies