This is excellent stuff, as the quote says you can join and create new areas of discussion. For us sociologists debating is our fetish, we love a good arguement. Another excellent place to start if you are new to the internet. Lots of useful links to start you off on the grand tour, including a starting point in the Sociology Ring . For those of you new to this surfing business a Ring consists of a collection of like minded websites which have got together to promote each other.
Rings are excellent ways of continuously finding specific subject orientated websites.
I have also chosen this website because it is very well designed, something which is usually lacking in academic websites. And yet, throughout the history of mankind, both have been the enduring themes of myth and religion, science and magic, curiosity and fear. From our late twentieth century vantage point we find that as the sun is understood as being the source of life in the natural order, so death is becoming recognized as the central dynamism underlying the life, vitality, and structure of the social order. I have included this quote because it basically sums it up. This is not a morbid or depressing site, it is instead very interesting.