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Virtual Urban Legends: Investigating the Ecology of the World Wide Web - http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper37.htm
A paper by Edmund Chattoe, University of Surrey, that discusses the evolution and spread of replicating messages ("chain mail") on the World Wide Web. The analysis draws a comparison to features shared by typical urban legends. |
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Cultural Selection - http://www.agner.org/cultsel
A collection of papers by Agner Fog on "cultural selection" including how it differs to sociology. Sample chapters from the book, Cultural Selection, are also linked. |
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Reports Made by 'The Global Social Change Research Project' - http://gsociology.icaap.org/reports.html
A resource of reports showing recent social, demographic, political and communication technology changes in the world as a whole and for developed and less developed sections. |
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How Can the Human Self Be Truly Described? - http://www.aestheticrealism.org/es-expl.htm
An excerpt from the preface to Eli Siegel's major text, "Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism". |
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Howard Becker - http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/
Assorted by Howard S. Becker (Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, USA) that, in his own words, "[are made available here] primarily to make things I've written and published in obscure places available to anyone who wants them." |
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About Gender - http://www.gender.org.uk/about/
A wide-ranging resource of essays and articles published by the Derby TV/TS Group (UK) discussing the manifold interpretations of gender. Articles/essays are categories by perspective and are added regularly. |
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Peculiarities of Cyberspace: Building Blocks for an Internet Sociology - http://www.sociosite.org/
A resource of essays and articles discussing a range of social phenomena arising from the increased use of ICT and the internet in social life. These are argued to form the beginning of a new sub-discipline, cyber-sociology, or netsociology, by Albert Benschop (University of Amsterdam). Site available in English and Dutch. |
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The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons (with a Focus on Thailand) - http://aidseld.psc.isr.umich.edu/publications.html
A resource of reports and publications made by a team of Thai and U.S. researchers conducting an on-going investigation into the impact of AIDS on older people since 1998. |
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Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion - http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tyoelama/sowing/report/InformationSociety99.pdf
The first interim report (literature review) delivered to the European Commission representing a "state of the art" review of all aspects of work, especially change, in the Information Society in Europe in 1999. |
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An Essay on Radical Labor Education - http://clogic.eserver.org/2-1/yates.html
A paper by Michael Yates, a labor educator, tracing the history of radical labor education suggesting that the time for renewal may be at hand. |