Sociology Subject Guide: Web Sources

A collection of links to websites on social theory and individual sociologists created by Mount Allison Sociology Professor (now retired) Berkeley Fleming. Last updated in 2009 and is now archived.

Links to archive, the site was discontinued in 2019. It was created and maintained by Gilles Séguin, looks outdated and can be difficult to navigate, but it includes links to resources on a number of topics that could be of interest to sociologists. 

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice.

An image database of over 7,000 advertisements from U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911-1955.

Contains over 3,300 advertising items and publications from 1850 to 1920.

Formerly the Medial Awareness Network, a Canadian not-for-profit for digital and media literacy

One of seven projects making up the Pew Research Centre. Studies attitudes toward politics, the press and public policy issues.

One of seven projects making up the Pew Research Centre. Uses empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press, particularly content analysis. Includes the State of the News Media Annual Report on American Journalism.

This site, a project of the Migration Policy Institute, an "independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC," offers tools, vital data, and factual information on the movement of people worldwide.

The Pew Social & Demographic Trends project is one of seven projects making up the Pew Research Centre. This project provides results of studies examining behaviors and attitudes of Americans in key realms of their lives, including family, community, health, finance, work and leisure. Combines original public opinion survey research with social, economic and demographic data analysis.

Canada's national statistical office.