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- CQ Researcher Plus Archive This link opens in a new window
Reports with in-depth analyisis of issues in the news. Includes overviews, pro-con debates and bibliographies of key sources. - Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.
- ProCon.orgProvides professionally-researched pro, con, and related information on more than 50 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy. Using the fair, FREE, and unbiased resources at ProCon.org, millions of people each year learn new facts, think critically about both sides of important issues, and strengthen their minds and opinions.
- Public Agenda OnlineThe organization regularly covers numerous major social issues, presenting fast facts, research findings, public opinion surveys, and other analyses.
- The Annie E. Casey FoundationAECF is a good site for students to use for data on youth and related social issues and for the basics of data interpretation.
- Association for the Sociology of ReligionASR examines sociological studies of religion. The ASR and the topic of the sociology of religion are influenced by the work of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, early pioneers in the field.
- Sociological Practices and Public SociologySSPPS is a section of the American Sociological Association where scholars are committed to engaging in social issues and public policy informed by research. SSPPS officially stands for Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology.
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