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An article by Edmund Chattoe and Prof. Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, describing an
inductively designed simulation of individual budgetary decision making.
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/reports/budgeting/EBB_Essex_paper.html
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Virtual Urban Legends: Investigating the Ecology of the World Wide Web
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.
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper37.htm
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Cultural Selection
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.
http://www.agner.org/cultsel
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Women and Decadence: A Critique of Feminist Ideology
BA dissertation giving a broad overview and critique of Western feminist ideology and perspectives.
http://www.geocities.com/johnflynn67/
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Howard Becker
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."
http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/
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The Social Construction of Male Homosexuality and Related Suicide Problems
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.
http://fsw.ucalgary.ca/ramsay/homosexuality-suicide/construction/gay-suicide-title.htm
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Educational Systems and Under-privileged Families
A symposium paper reflecting on the problems of prevailing theoretical attitudes towards the
underprivileged in educational and how they contrast with the authors' practical experience.
http://www.eled.auth.gr/reds/txt/education/under_priv_fam.htm
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The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons (with a Focus on Thailand)
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.
http://aidseld.psc.isr.umich.edu/publications.html
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Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion
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.
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tyoelama/sowing/report/InformationSociety99.pdf
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Identifying Dimensions of Urban Social Change In Dublin - 1986 to 1996
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.
http://www.ucd.ie/gsi/pdf/35-2/dublin.pdf
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Reports Made by 'The Global Social Change Research Project'
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.
http://gsociology.icaap.org/reports.html
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Peculiarities of Cyberspace: Building Blocks for an Internet Sociology
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).
http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/websoc/indexE.html
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About Gender
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.
http://www.gender.org.uk/about/
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Sociological Explanations between Micro and Macro and the Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
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.
http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-01/1-01kelle-e.htm
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Narratives of Liver Transplantation: Recipient Perspectives on the Quality of Life
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 respect to social norms.
http://socwww.cwru.edu/~atp5/thesis.html
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How Can the Human Self Be Truly Described?
An excerpt from the preface to Eli Siegel's major text, "Self and World: An Explanation of
Aesthetic Realism".
http://www.AestheticRealism.org/es-expl.htm
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Modelling the Adoption of AEMs as an Innovation Diffusion Process
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 made by farmers to adopt The
Agricultural Environmental Measures (AEMs).
http://wwwlisc.clermont.cemagref.fr/ImagesProject/Results/models/Diffusion%20Model/dolomieu.html
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An Essay on Radical Labor Education
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.
http://eserver.org/clogic/2-1/yates.html
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