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Social, Economic and Political Change
A web site of:
The Global Social Change Research Project
The basic question of interest is "Why does society develop the way that it does?"  How did the various political systems develop, how do different customs and social systems come about.  Some specific topics include: what is globalization and how is it happening, why did industrialization first occur in Europe, how far will democratization spread and in what forms.

This site is our attempt to study those questions.  We present information that looks at long term, large scale changes in social, political and economic systems at the national and international levels.  This site presents links to sites with theories, approaches, data and research.  The principal aim is to present information that can be used to explain historical change, growth and development. 

Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Send email to    gsociology  at  yahoo dot com

I've started an Announcements for Sociology forum at Sociopranos. Anyone can post any annoucement about new conferences, books, research, websites, jobs, funding, reports, data, etc., that may be of interest to sociologists or any other social scientists. I'll start a new thread every month. See the press release forum   http://www.sociopranos.com/forums/forum-view.asp?forumid=11   thread labeled "July 2004 sociology announcements".

Reports   by Shackman, Liu and Wang.  Includes a summary/review of theories of change and review of the current world situation, reports on major global socio-demographic, economic and political change, the Basic Guides to the World, and other work.

Data sets and Presentions   Data sets used in our reports, other public domain data sets, demography, economic, energy, and presentations based on these data sets. We hope these might be useful for teaching and research.

Theory   Links to approaches and theories or reviews of theories of change, and general essays about change.

Data   The process of change depends on demographics, political and economic structures, among other factors.  This section links to sites with free data, e.g., population, economics, political systems data, long term data, and some analysis of long term data.

Research    about social change, economic growth, related topics.  This section also includes discussion papers and essays that are not exactly research, not exactly reviews of theories of change, but are useful papers.

National Profiles    Understanding change requires some knowledge of the state of the world, present and past.  These sites present profiles of countries or regions, or have links to profiles.  Some of the pages and links also include brief histories of countries or regions.

History    These sites present more detailed history, of countries, regions, the world, or links to more detailed history, or lists of good history books and articles.  See also the links page with some links to links of history.

Organizations   Links to organizations of interest.

Future    These sites are about trying to understand the future, forecasting or other means. 

Links   Pages that are links to links.

Bibliographies and syllabi    Syllabi of courses in social change or related topics, lists of readings about change.  This page can be a place to share syllabi, for example, among people who teach classes on social change.

Other pages that don't exactly fit into above categories.

Software   These programs may be useful.  Statistics, editors, other.
 
 

Featured sites

AAG Center for Global Geography Education
http://www.aag.org/Education/center/


Rudy Rummel's Freedom, Democracy, Peace
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/


Brand new project:
Our Current Knowledge   http://bestweknow.icaap.org/  
This site will present a series of essays summarizing our current knowledge about different global issues. These essays are intended for the general audience, so should be useful for anyone; students, researchers, or anyone interested in finding out what we know.

Also, here is an interesting site, not related to Social Change
Links to pictures, movies, virtual postcards, midi music files, for kids to look at or listen to. Well anyway, my kid likes to look at these.
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/kidpage

About this site

Awards for this page, click here
 
The social change site is an ICAAP supported site

ICAAP is: 
The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication 

ICAAP is supported by Athabasca University
Social Change is also an affiliate of the  International Relations
IR Theory web site

The Social, Political and Economic Change Project is also a member of
The Gateway to Educational Material
A Geminfo project

 
The Social Change site is listed at the web sites of five American Sociological Association Sections, the British Sociological Association, the European Sociological Association, and the International Social Science Council.  This site and the demographic report are also SOSIG approved. For a complete list of sites that link to this Social Change site, check   these  sites. These sites are not all about social change, but are interesting to visit.


Part of the National Grid for Learning    


Click here for information about me, Gene Shackman, Applied Sociologist and the others who worked with me on the reports.  Also, if you link this site to yours, could you please let me know?  Send feedback or comment to me at  gsociology  at  yahoo dot com     I would also be very interested to find out if you find this site useful.

This page was last updated 5/18/04

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Disclaimer:  All of the work on this site was done at home, using our home computers and home time.  In my web site development and in my research, I do not represent or speak for any organization. Our research is not currently supported by funds from any organization. The web site is hosted by ICAAP, for which we are very greatful.

The information made available through links at this Web site are provided as a public service.  Information and links at this site are  for educational purposes only, and are not intended to be advice or suggestions for any action or inaction.  Any actions taken or inaction by visitors to this site are totally the responsibility of the visitors.  Material, opinions, analyses and conclusions on linked sites do not necessarily reflect my opinions (and often do not), nor do I assume any responsibility for the content provided at these linked sites.

We also do not have any financial relationships with any site or organization linked to from our site.

There are no fees for use of this site. We also, generally, only link to sites that provide completely free information.

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