Social Sciences: Sociology, Social Issues, Social Services

This is a website that helps students narrow down and choose a topic.

Website selects social issue topics and presents unbiased overview, pros and cons , public opinion, relevant research, and legal ramifications

Issue guides to a wide range of social topics provide an overview, statistics, public opinion, and arguments for an against possible solutions. Research articles are great for informative papers.

Information about Supreme Court decisions from 1953-2008. Clicking on the "Analysis" section allows users to search for a specific decision. This database is a "definitive source for researchers interested in the U.S. Supreme Court." Information about each case available includes “the parties to the suit and the votes of the Justices.” A Getting Started section is helpful to first-time database users. Author/Publisher: Washington University in St Louis School of Law

Online legal information about topics such as will preparation, divorce, child custody, bankruptcy, immigration, criminal law, and more.

Resources on sociology as a discipline; research, theory, broad topics.

Resources on childhood and parenting.

Resources on criminal behavior and social deviance.

Resources on ethnicity and cultural diversity.

Resources on the United States Government and governments around the world.

Resources on marriage and family.

Resources on U.S. citizenship.

These books argue both sides of controversial social issues.

Faced with a mountain of research to conduct, reading to do, and papers to write, students must work both efficiently and shrewdly. This three-section program tells how to identify and cite reliable online and offline sources of information, carve textbook chapters into manageable chunks, and outline and revise papers—all elements that are essential to getting the job done well.

These resources can be sent to the campus of your choice.

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Current online information about careers

Scroll down to browse subjects, or type keywords such as social change, culture, ethnic, Latino, African American, Native American, government, human services, women, inequality, class, or gender.

Browse categories, such as Accounting & Finance, Business Ethics, Technology, Finance, Management, Marketing & Advertising, and Economics, then select a title to watch.