King Hall

Located at: King Hall
10 North Professor St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1097

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As the main classroom building for social sciences, humanities, math, and computer science classes, King is always bustling. In addition to classrooms, large lecture halls have data/video projectors with touch-screen controls and network access. Offices of the departments of anthropology, classics, computer science, East Asian studies, expository writing, mathematics, philosophy, and sociology are located in King. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki in 1966, the building resembles the adjacent Conservatory of Music.

Social Science Data Lab

Located at: King Hall
10 North Professor St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1097

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This 20-station PC lab supports many types of research. Here students and faculty access a variety of economic, financial, and census data, from historical documents to the daily trading activity of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Located in King Hall, the lab is available for general use when not reserved for social science classes.

Resources and References

Associations:
American Sociological Association
International Sociological Association
Society for Applied Sociology

Sociology Link Sites:
Julian Dierke's Sociology Links
Allyn and Bacon's Sociology Links Homepage
http://www.sociosite.net/
http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/games/index.html

Journals:
Annual Reviews of Sociology
Electronic Journal of Sociology
The National Sexuality Resource Center, home of American Sexuality magazine and the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy:
http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/

Research Sites:
ICPSR/General Social Survey
Sociology Dictionary
Lexis-Nexis
JSTOR
SPSS
Statistics.com
Statistics Abstracts
U.S. Census Bureau

Many Eyes, an innovative site for visualizing your data:
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/

Social Explorer, an interactive demographic maps, winner of a 2007 American Sociological Association award:
http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx

The Census Bureau's FactFinder is the authoritative source of government data on the US:
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Sociology Jobs:
Social Service.com
Sociology Cafe

Subject Areas:
http://www.socialpsychology.org/
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/