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• - 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.
  
• - Working papers by the research centre based in the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California, Berkeley.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An excerpt from the preface to Eli Siegel's major text, "Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism".
  
• - An internal working paper literature review on the diffusion of innovations by Edmund Chattoe (research fellow) and Nigel Gilbert (professor), Department of Sociology, University of Surrey (UK). Works are applies to the task of modelling the decisions ma
  
• - An article by Udo Kelle (University of Vechta) providing an overview of the important methodological discussions surrounding the basic questions of mixed (qualitative and quantitative) method designs in sociology.
  
• - A sociological explanation for the rise in North American male suicide since 1950 examining changes in the constructions of homosexuality and arguing that the rise in male suicide is corollary. Proposals for future studies are also made.
  
• - 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 Be
  
• - 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.
  
• - BA dissertation giving a broad overview and critique of Western feminist ideology and perspectives.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An article by Edmund Chattoe and Prof. Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, describing an inductively designed simulation of individual budgetary decision making.
  
• - 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."
  
• - 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.
  
• - An exploratory study into individual perceptions of end-stage liver disease and liver transplant with a special focus on Quality of Life concepts, including interviews with liver transplant recipients. Concludes that quality of life is best measured with
  
• - A quantitative study of social and demographic changes in Dublin, Ireland employing principal component analysis (PCA) on data collected using ten-yearly census data and smaller mid-decade census data.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.