Professional Resources

• Social Psychology
  The study of socialization is often engaged in by social psychologists, such as those belonging to the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Social Psychology.

• Sociology of Children and Youth 
  Although they are interested in the health and well-being of children generally, some member of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth also study the process of socialization.

• The Society for Personality 
  The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, with over 3,000 members, is the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world [self-description].
   

• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 
  These scholars often publish their research in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Data Resources

• NORC 
  The General Social Survey (GSS): The GSS is a regular, ongoing omnibus personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. The first survey took place in 1972, and since then more than 40,000 respondents have answered more than 3,500 different questions. From Americans’ racial attitudes to the number of guns owned by women to musical preferences over a lifetime, the General Social Survey measures the trends in American attitudes, experiences, practices, and concerns [self-characterization].

Other Resources

• The Social Psychology Network 
  The Social Psychology Network is the largest social psychology database on the Internet [self-description].
   
• Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace 
  Michael Kearl’s Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace: Social Psychology
   
• Human Genome Project 
  The question of the relative importance of “nature” and “nurture” in individual development is an enduring one. The effort sponsored by the United States government to map the entire human genome sequence in the Human Genome Project raises both scientific and ethical issues about human personhood.
   
• The Child Development Institute 
  The Child Development Institute was founded by Robert Myers, Ph.D. Dr. Myers is a Clinical Child Psychologist with 25 years of experience working with children, adolescents, families and parents.
• Intersex Society of North America 
  How many sexes are there and why? The reality of anatomical hermaphrodites or “intersex” persons force us to confront this question.
• Much stereotypical gender role socialization takes place through the medium of popular culture. Consider how boys and girls are differentially socialized at the following Web sites: 
  The toymaker Mattel 
  The clothing company Baby Gap  
  Walt Disney movies and videos 
  Implicit Association Test
   
• “It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.”