The document provides information on using information and communication technologies (ICT) in sociology. It discusses what research is and its relationship to the internet. It then outlines various ICT resources that can be used in sociology research, such as creating websites and blogs, online questionnaires, e-books, digital library software, e-journals, and academic social networking sites. Useful websites for sociology researchers are also listed, including databases, repositories, journals, and video resources.

1. Use of ICT In Sociology
Presented By
Mr.@mol B@b@n Ub@le
PVDT College Of Education For Women
SNDT Women's University ,Mumbai

10. What is research ?
Research means “Search for Knowledge”.
It aim at discovering the truth.
It is the search for knowledge through objective and systematic method of
finding solution to problems.
It is carried on both for discovering new facts and verification of old ones.
Therefore, research is a process of systematic ,Scientific ,Generalized
and in-depth study or search of any particular topic, subject or area of
investigation backed.

11. Relationship of Research and Internet

12. Uses for Internet
Research
Banking
Classes/Lectures
Travel arrangements
Talking to friends
News
Weather
Shopping
The Internet offers access to data, graphics, voice, Music,
software, text, and people through a variety of services and
tools for communication and data exchange

13. Internet –vast store house of knowledge
We should know correct URL
It saves our time on the internet
Gov. publications, magazines, news papers are
the important sources to know the websites and
use of websites

14. ICT Resources In Sociology
 Create Website
 Innovative Blogs
 Prepare Online Questioner / Digital
Checklist
 Digital Software
 Open access journals
 Academic social networking
 Teaching resources

15. Create Website

16. Free of cost Prepare your website For
Research.
► Google Sites : https://sites.google.com
► WIX : http://www.wix.com
► Weebly : https://www.weebly.com/in
► WebsiteBuilder : https://www.websitebuilder.com
► SiteBuilder : https://www.sitebuilder.com
► Webnode : https://us.webnode.com
► Ezweb123 : http://www.ezweb123.com
► WEBS :http://www.webs.com

17. Create Innovative Blog For Sociology

18. Blogging sites (FREE)
 Blogger: www.blogger.com
 WordPress: http://wordpress.com/
 TypePad: http://www.typepad.com/
 FreeBlogIt: http://freeblogit.com/
 Medium: https://medium.com/
 Penzu: https://penzu.com/
 Sybtle: https://svbtle.com/
 Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/
 Squarespace :https://www.squarespace.com/
 ProBlogger: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/11/15/how-i-make-money-blogging/
 Steve Pavlina: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/
 DoshDosh: http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-make-money-blogging-seven-strategies/

19. Prepare Questionnaire For Research

20. Online Questionnaire For Research
 E-Survey Creator : https://www.esurveycreator.com/
 Free Online Survey : https://freeonlinesurveys.com/#/
 Google Forms : https://www.google.co.in/forms/about/
 Kwik Survey : https://kwiksurveys.com/
 esurv : http://esurv.org/
 Surveynuts : https://surveynuts.com/en
 Qualatrics : https://www.qualtrics.com/
 Example : https://www.quia.com/sv/359509.html

21. E-Book Websites

22. Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and
other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.
 https://www.scribd.com/

23. FreeBookSpot :
is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 FREE E-BOOKS in
96 categories which up to 71,97 GB.
http://www.freebookspot.es/

24. E-SnipFiles offers you free ebooks and software legally by brought or
attained PLR, resale or master rights to all the products on their page.
 http://www.esnipfiles.com/

25. Free-eBooks
Free-eBooks is an online source for free ebook downloads, ebook
resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download
free magazines or submit your own ebook.
 http://www.free-ebooks.net/

26. ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader. You can
randomly browse for a ebook through the most popular titles, recommendations or recent
reviews for visitors. There are 21,282 eBooks available here and they’re all free!
 http://manybooks.net/

27. https://www.free-
ebooks.net/category/sociology

28. https://india.gov.in/my-
government/documents/e-books

29. www.bookchums.com

30. http://freesociologybooks.com/

31. www.bestbooksworld.com

32. The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web.
 http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

33. E-Book Websites
Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free e-books on the Internet. It is the first and largest single
collection of free electronic books, or e-books. The collection consists of more than 20,000 e-books.
Authorama Public Domain Books (Fiction): http://www.authorama.com/
Featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read
online or offline. This site is regularly updated with new freeware stories.
Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com
Provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors; general reference works like
encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, verses etc
The Online Book Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has about 25000 e-books on different
subjects.
MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
It is a site for 500 course materials available on the Internet, for free download

34. Sociology E-Book Websites
 http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=262
 http://karnatakastateopenuniversity.in/library-2/e-books
 http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/c.php?g=422731&p=2886648
 http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000301937
 http://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs?subId=28
 http://www.brill.com/brillonline/brill-e-books
 http://about.jstor.org/content/sociology-0
 http://www.ebooks-for-all.com/bookmarks/detail/Introduction-to-Sociology/onecat/0.html
 https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/introduction-sociology-ebook
 http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

35. Useful Websites For Researchers

36. Sociology Research
 Sociology is the study of human society and its patterns. Sociologists do
research on the problems and development of societies and the ways that
humans interact. For example, a sociologist might look at how a specific
society deals with public health issues like obesity. What does the society
do? How do people in the society view the issue? What things work to
combat the problem?

37. http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/
 ePrints@UoM is an initiative of Mysore University Library, which collects,
preserves and distributes scholarly output of Research and Innovation
activities at University of Mysore by its faculty, research scholars and
students. UoM is one of the oldest university in the country and has many
distinctions. This Open Access Institutional Repository, set up in April 2013,
aims to cover scholarly publications covering journal articles, conference
papers, books, book reviews, presentations.

38. https://eric.ed.gov/
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is
the world's most widely used index to educational-related
literature. Established in 1966, ERIC is supported by the
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational
Research and Improvement and is administered by the
U.S. National Library of Education (NLE).
ERIC is the largest education database in the world-
containing over 1.5 million records of journal articles,
research reports, curriculum and teaching guides,
conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books.

39. http://www.dauniv.ac.in/
 All The India research abstract are provide on this site. Devi Ahilya Vishvidyalaya has
collected this treasure of information for the use of researcher .

40. http://www.caul.edu.au/
 CAUL's mission is to support CAUL members in the achievement of their objectives .... a
key goal is to facilitate the members’ role in supporting and maximising learning and
teaching outcomes and contributing positively to the student experience.

41. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
 Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia that allows its users to edit almost any article accessible.
Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet and is ranked
among the ten most popular websites.[

42. http://www.unsco.org/Default.asp
 There is special database information of south eastern countries is provided on this site . Literacy,
poverty, Population,health,crime,women Education etc.

43. http://aishe.nic.in/aishe/home

44. http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
 The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their
Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository
has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the
researchers

45. http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/
 “ShodhGangotri”, research scholars / research supervisors in universities are requested to deposit
electronic version of approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for
registering themselves for the Ph.D programme.

46. https://www.ohiolink.edu/
 OhioLINK has officially launched its significantly upgraded Electronic Journal Center (EJC), giving
OhioLINK students, faculty and researchers enhanced access to a vast, rich array of high-quality
research journals.

47. ►Mumbai university-Dept.of Continuing Education www.mu.ac.in
►www.netvarsity.com
►www.e-gurukool.com
►www.distance-educator.com
►www.classteacher.com
►www.vidyaonline.com

48. Digital Library Software

49. Digital Library Software
 Dspace is available at http://www.dspace.org: DSpace is a digital library system to capture, store, index, preserve,
and redistribute the intellectual output of a university’s research faculty in digital formats . DSpace is available to
research institutions world-wide as an open source system that can be customized and extended.
 Green Stone Digital Library Software: It is Open Source Software available from http://greenstone.org under the
term of the GNU General Public License.
 GNU E-Prints Archiving Software (Version 2.2.2): The software is available from http://www.eprints.org
 Ganesha Digital Library Software: GDL can be downloaded free of cost at http://gdl.itb.ac.id/download/
 Libraonix Digital Library System: The Libronix DLS is available from the site http://www.logos.com/products.

50. E-Journals

51. University of Oxford: Working papers available
from 2000 onwards
http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/index.php/research/working-papers.html

52. Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR):
preprints and postprints of journal articles
http://www.ssoar.info/home/ueber-ssoar.html

53. Institute for Population and Social Research:
Digital Repository
http://ipsr.healthrepository.org/

54. OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European
Networks)
http://www.oapen.org/search?expand=subject;f1-
subject=Society%20and%20social%20sciences::Sociology%20and%20anthropology::Sociology
 OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and
implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities
and Social Sciences (more than 1000).
 The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by
aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.

55. Sociology and anthropology: 14 books

56. Yale Journal of Sociology
http://www.yale.edu/sociology/yjs.html

57. Open Access Journals Search Engine
(OAJSE)http://oajse.com/subjects/sociology.html
 IDEA : A Journal of Social Issues
 International Indigenous Policy Journal
 International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies
 International Journal of Motorcycle Studies
 International NGO Journal
 Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
 Journal of Social Inclusion
 Electronic Journal of Sociology
 Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World : A Review
Journal
 European Journal of Spatial Development
 Focus
 Advances in Social Work
 Americana (Hollywood) : the Journal of American
Popular Culture
 Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
 Australian Review of Public Affairs
 Behavior and Social Issues
 Crimes and Misdemeanours : Deviance and the Law in
Historical Perspective
 Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
 Culture and Society : Journal of Social Research
 Culture Machine
 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
 Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research

58.  Journal of Social Intervention : Theory and Practice
 Michigan Family Review
 Open Family Studies Journal
 Open Sociology Journal
 Other Voices : The e-Journal of Cultural Criticism
 Outlines. Critical Practice Studies
 Provenance : The Journal of Public Record Office
Victoria
 Qualitative Sociology Review
 Revista de Cercetare şi Intervenţie Socială
 Sociation Today
 Sociologias
 Sociology Mind
 Sortuz : Oñati Journal of Emergent Socio-Legal Studies
 Southern Rural Sociology
 Studies in Sociology of Science
 The Canadian Journal of Sociology
 The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies
 Theory and Science
 Transit
 tripleC : Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable
Information Society
 Ufahamu : a Journal of African Studies
 Urban Studies Research
 Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
 Women's Health & Urban Life

59. Sociation Today is the first OA journal from a
regional sociology association (The North Carolina
Sociological Association)
http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v92/outline18.htm

60. Open Access Anthropology
Journals: 72
http://www.antropologi.info/links/Main/Journals

62. http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T%20&%20T/T%20&%20T-00-0-000-000-2003-Web/T%20&%20T-00-0-
000-000-2003-1-Cover.htm

63. Himalayan Journal of Sociology and
Anthropology http://nepjol.info/index.php/HJSA/index

64. Savage Minds: online forum for discussing the latest
developments in the field
http://savageminds.org/

65. FAMILY INEQUALITY: DISCUSSION FORUM ON connections between
families and inequality
http://familyinequality.wordpress.com/about/

66. Researcher Social Network Related
Important Website

67. https://www.academia.edu/
 Academia is the easiest way to share papers with millions of people across the world for
free. A study recently published in PLOS ONE found that papers uploaded to Academia
receive a 69% boost in citations over 5 years.

68. https://www.researchgate.net/
 Objective of this platform is Discover scientific knowledge, and make your research visible.

69. https://www.facebook.com/

70. https://www.oercommons.org/
 OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education
resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

71. Google Forum
:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!homeredir
Google Groups allows you to create and participate in online forums and email-based
groups with a rich experience for community conversations.

72. Sociology Related Video

73. http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses#g/c/DF7
B08FF8564D1FE

74. iTunes Video

75. Websites for Educational Videos
►Brightstorm Short-form online video lessons by professional educators. Free
math lessons.brightstorm.com
►Coursera Lectures taught by world-class professors and reinforced through
interactive exercises.coursera.org
►EdXCourses designed specifically for interactive study via the web.edx.org
►Math TV Professional video lessons in mathematics. Covers basic math
through calculus. mathtv.com
►Research Channel 3,500 videos from distinguished researchers and
scholars.
►School Tube Video sharing platform for schools featuring original content
created by students.www.schooltube.com

76. Websites for Educational Videos
► TED Fascinating presentations by the world's leading thinkers and doers.www.ted.org
► YouTube EDU Free lectures from more than one hundred colleges and
universities.www.youtube.com/edu
► SnagFilms Library of free, full-length documentary films.www.snagfilms.com
► Academic Earth Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholarsacademicearth.org

77. Websites for Educational Videos
► Futures Channel High quality multimedia content ideal for use in the
classroom.thefutureschannel.com
► Khan Academy Self-pased learning with extensive video library, interactive
challenges, and assessments.khanacademy.org
► TeacherTube Online aggregator of educational videos.www.teachertube.com

78. Top Websites of Sociological studies
 Sociosite :http://www.sociosite.net
SocioSite is designed to get access to information and resources which are relevant for
sociologists and other social scientists. It has been designed from a global point of view — it gives
access to the world wide scene of social sciences. The intention is to provide a comprehensive
listing of all sociology resources on the internet.
 American Sociological Association: http://www.asanet.org
American Sociological Association. Includes the Code of Ethics, Employment Bulletin,
information about funding opportunities, research links and links to publicly- available data
resources. Also provides information about the Section on Sociological Practice.
 International Sociological Association (ISA) : http://www.isa-sociology.org
Provides information about the Association as well as the clinical sociology and
sociotechnics/sociological practice research committees

79. Top Websites of Sociological studies
 Dead Sociologists' Society :http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/dss/DEADSOC.HTML
The lives of 16 key sociologists with summaries of their works and ideas. Plus a collection of Internet links
arranged by topic.
 The Socio web : http://www.socioweb.com
A comprehensive, independent guide to sociology resources on the Internet divided into twelve categories
including Internet Indexes and Guides, Commercial Sites, Journals and 'Zines, Sociological Theory,
Surveys and Statistics, Topical Research, and University Departments.
 Quia Books : https://www.quia.com
Reduce time spent grading and engage students with online workbooks and textbooks from the world's leading
publishers.

80. Sociology Notes Websites
 https://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk/t/sociology
 http://www.studylecturenotes.com/
 http://www.studylecturenotes.com/
 http://www.universityofcalicut.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1015
 http://dmc122011.delmar.edu/socsci/rlong/intro/lecture-1301.htm
 https://revisesociology.com/good-sociology-sites/
 http://www.sparknotes.com/sociology/
 http://www.sociologyguide.com/
 http://courses.ucsd.edu/courselist.aspx?name=SOCI
 http://www.nios.ac.in/online-course-material/sr-secondary-courses/Sociology-(331).aspx

81. SociologyExchange.co.uk: handouts, powerpoints,
quizzes, videos and other resources

82. Sociology teaching resources: 568 Free sociology resources: sociology
lesson plans, sociology activities, sociology worksheets, sociology revision, sociology teaching ideas and much
more.

83. Lecture Notes
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-231j-gender-sexuality-and-society-spring-2006/lecture-notes/

84. Important Google Apps For Researcher

85. EASY BIB APPS :
http://research.easybib.com/?utm_source=easybib&utm_medium=navigation&utm_ca
mpaign=product
 Millions of students use EasyBib to cite the best sources used in their research. We've made these
sources searchable. It's a virtuous cycle. Welcome to Social Research.

86. POCKET
https://getpocket.com/
 Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket.Save directly from your browser or from
apps like Twitter, Flipboard.

87. Notability :
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notability/i
d360593530?mt=8
 Notability has quite simply made me a more engaged student. Note taking is fun and simple, and on
top of that, the ability to import PDFs and TAKE NOTES ON TOP OF THEM makes reading college
textbooks a much more engaging, much more enjoyable experience.

88. EVERNOTE:
 Create a project to-do list. Jot down a reminder. Or snap a picture of a sketch. A note can be
anything you want it to be. And once you make a note, it’s accessible wherever you go, forever.

89. Qualities of Researcher
 Good observer
 Good Listener
 Good concentration
 interest
 commitment
 Truthful
 Capacity of good knowledge
 scholarly approach
 Believe in Peaceful Nature

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