GESIS SocioGuide: Methods and Software of the Social Sciences

Methodology | Questionaires | Software | Statistics

Methodology

• American Sociological Association: Section on Methods
• APSA: Politcal Methodology Section
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft objektive Hermeneutik e.V.
  soll Forschern, die mit den Verfahren der objektiven Hermeneutik oder vergleichbaren, strukturalistisch ausgerichteten Methoden arbeiten, aber über verschiedene Disziplinen, Institutionen und Orte verstreut sind, einen geregelten Arbeitszusammenhang ermöglichen.
• BMS - Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
  Includes the Newsletter of RC33 'Logic and Methodology' of the International Sociological Association
• Computer-assisted text analysis resources in WWW (ZUMA)
• Content Analysis (W. Evans)
  Publication Alerts, Bibliographic resources, CONTENT: The Internet mailing list, Software
• ECASS - European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences, Essex
  ECASS is a centre for comparative and longitudinal data analysis, which conducts and facilitates the empirical study of social and economic change by integrating longitudinal and cross-national European datasets, providing the support services required for their analyses, and acting as the host for major substantive research programmes.
• Essex Summer School in Social Science
• ETHNO/CA NEWS
  Information on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
• Evaluation Resources on the Web
  Resources for people doing program evaluation: "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used
• Fachgruppe METHODEN in der DGP
• IASC - International Associations for Statistical Computing
• ICPSR - Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (Univ. Michigan)
• ILMES - Internet-Lexikon der Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung (Univ. München)
• Informationsquellen: Links: Online-Umfragen (ZUMA)
• International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Internet-Angebote qualitative Forschung
  FQS – Online-Zeitschrift, QSF-L Mailingliste, Webring Qualitative Forschung, Linksammlung Qualitative Sozialforschung
  ISA: Logic and Methodology (RC33)
• Meinungsforschungsinstitute
• Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung - Sektion der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
  with information on METHODOLOGY-LIST and links to:
  Sektion "Modellbildung und Simulation", Sektion "Sozialindikatoren", Fachruppe Methoden in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie e.V.
• Methoden in sozialwissenschaftlichen Unterrichtsfächern (sowi-online)
  Literaturliste erstellt von Reinhold Hedtke
• METHODS AND MEASUREMENTS (L. Lambert)
  Chi-Square, Factor Analysis, Log Linear Analysis, Online Help, Helpful Tools Online, Data Transformations, Software Packages
• METHODS Liste: Research Methodology
  Mail message: SUBSCRIBE METHODS FirstName FamilyName
• MPR-online - Methods of Psychological Research
  A journal of the Methods Section in the German Psychology Society (DGPs)
• online-forschung.de
  German Internet Research List - GIR-L, Newsletter, Online-Panel, Jobforum u.a.
• OnlineResearch (ZUMA)
  Projekte, Informationsquellen (Online-Umfragen, Web-Experimente, Software, Journals, Veranstaltungen), Online Labor
• Political Methodology Research Ressources (Richard Tucker, Indiana)
• Qualitative Sozialforschung (easyQ)
  Texte, Projekte, Institute, Foren
• QualPage: resources for qualitative research
  Announcements - Approaches - Calls - Conceptuel and Philosophical Foundations - Disciplines - Discussion Forums - Electronic Journals - Methods - Organizations and interest groups - Other resources - Papers - Proceedings - Some new - Presentatioons of research - Publishers - Software resources - Teaching qualitative research
• Research Methods Knowledge Base (William M.K. Trochim)
  A comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical
  introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods
• Social Research Update (Univ. of Surrey)
• Social Science Information Technology (ProGAMMA)
• Social Science Research Methods and Statistics: Resources for Teachers (Department of Sociology at Southern Illinois University)
  Links to various courses, statistical software, downloadable data teaching resources
• Sociological Methodology 
  Published for the American Sociological Association, provides
  a comprehensive overview of research methods in the social sciences.
• Wissenschaftstheorie, Methodologie, Forschungsmethodik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Univ. Innsbruck)
  Ausgewählte Literaturhinweise
• ZABIB (ZA Köln)
  Recherche im Bestand der Spezialbibliothek 'Empirische Sozialforschung'
• ZHSF - Zentrum für historische Sozialforschung
  methoden-, daten- und datenverarbeitungsorientierte Forschung- und Entwicklungsprojekte
• ZUMA - Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (GESIS)

Questionairs/Tests

• Question Bank (CASS - Centre for Applied Social Surveys, Surrey) Topics and Concepts which can be searched on
• Tests, Tests, Tests (Cyberia Shrink)
  Personality Tests, Intelligence Tests, Attitudes, Lifestyle and Emotional Health
• Tests (ZPID, Universität Trier)
  Dokumentation psychologierelevanter Testinformationen (teils entgeldfrei)
• Testverfahren im Internet: Online-Tests und Testbeschreibungen (ZPID, Universität Trier)
• ZUMA-Informationssystem - ZIS
  Elektronisches Handbuch sozialwissenschaftlicher Erhebungsinstrumente 

Software

• ASK - Akademische Software Koperation: Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften
• c|net
  Comprehensive virtual software library, USA. Search according to platform
• Content analysis software: Links to external sites (Content Discussion Group)
• DPLS - Data and Program Library Service (Univ. Wisconsin)
  Machine readable data files to the social science community
• Einführung in Lisrel (Lars Satow, FU Berlin)
• Meta - Analysis: Methods of Accumulating Results Across Research Domains (L. Lyons)
• Resources in humanities computing (CHASS)
  Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
• SAS Home page
• Scolari (Sage Publications)
  Research Methodology Software & CD-ROMs: includes free demonstration versions
• SIByl - Social Science Software Databank (ProGAMMA)
• Social Science Data and Computer Terms (Univ. California)
• Social Research Methods (W. Trochim)
• SPSS Home-page
• SSCA - Social Science Computer Association
• SSCA - Social Science Computing Association List (Subscription)
  Mail message: SUBSCRIBE SSCA
• Stat. Computing Resources on the Internet (Univ. Michigan), English Version
• Text analysis resources (Harald Klein, Univ. Jena)
  see also: Glossary, References, Newspapers/Magazines, English Version

Statistics

• Chance Database (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)
  Contains materials designed help teach a introductory probability or statistics course
• Electronic Statistics Textbook (StatSoft)
• Elementary Statistics - GGR 270Y (Univ. of Toronto)
  Lecture notes
• Home Page for Statisticians (Rainer Würländer)
• hypertextbasierte, interaktive Statistik-Skripten im World-Wide Web (Psychologie, Univ. Freiburg)
  see also: HYPERSTAT (Zurück)
• Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms (Animated Software Company )
• MM*STAT (Härdle/Rönz; XploRe)
  Eine interaktive Einführung in die Welt der Statistik
• Statistics (Univ. Köln)
  Statistical Software, Conferences and Courses, Data Sets, Documentation (Journals, Books), Search the Internet, Discussion Groups, WWW Servers
• Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources (York University)
  Among others: Psychometry
• Statistics Every Writer Should Know (Robert Niles)
  About statistics and journalism
• Statistics on the Web (Clay Helberg)
• Statistics Textbook (UCLA)
• StatLib
  a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW
• Stats 101: Elementary Statistics Applets (Kent State Univ)
  Student's t-Test , ANOVA, Simple Least Squares, Spearman's Rank Correlation, and further Links
• Virtual Library Statistics

Methods and Software of the Social Sciences:
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