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Social Sciences Resources

Studies of human society and of individual relationships in and to society.

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Anthropology

Study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of human beings.

Archaeology

The systematic recovery and study of material evidence, such as graves, buildings, and tools, remaining from past human lives and cultures.

Psychology

The science that deals with human mental processes and behavior.

Sociology

The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.

Ethnicity, Culture, and Race

Of or relating to sizable groups of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.

Gender & Sexuality

Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture; matters involving or characteristic of sex, sexuality, or the sexes.

People by Age Group

Customs, Etiquette, Folklore

Social Issues and Social Welfare

The relationship and responsibilities of societies, especially political entities, to their members.

Social Sciences News

Resources in this category are:

Anthro.Net

http://www.anthro.net/

"Links and references for anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, psychology, sociology and other social sciences. The Anthro.Net database contains thousands of reviewed web sites and bibliographic references... Anthro.Net queries a database of over 40,000 reviewed web sites."

Author: Eric J. White (white@anthro.net)

Subjects:

Social Sciences

Social Sciences--Anthropology

HateWatch

http://hatewatch.org/

A guide to hate groups that are active on the Internet, and the groups that monitor them. A hate group is defined as: "an organization that advocates violenceagainst or separation from those persons or organizations identified by their race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation or gender."

Author:

Subjects:

Social Sciences

Keywords: Hate Groups; Racism; Watch Groups; Resources

Humans and Other Animals

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ianmacd/Jo/

"Humans and Other Animals is a web site designed for all those interested in the human-animal relationship. The site provides academic researchers, students and people who deal with animals in their everyday lives, both professionally or as owners, with information on and links to a wide range of anthrozoological resources."

Author: Jo Swabe (swabe@pscw.uva.nl)

Subjects:

Science & Technology--Life Sciences--Zoology

Social Sciences

Keywords: human; animal; anthrozoology

INFOMINE - Social Sciences and Humanities

http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?liberal

Large annotated collection of Internet resources related to humanities and the social sciences, business, and general reference. Resources have been determined to be "'of use' as a scholarly information resource in research or educational activites at the university level." Collection can be searched or browsed by subject, keyword or title. Part of The Library of the University of California, Riverside's INFOMINE.

Author: Nancy Getty (gettyn@ucrac1.ucr.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Social Sciences

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)

http://www.igc.org/igc/

"IGC's five online communities of activists and organizations: PeaceNet, EcoNet, LaborNet, ConflictNet, and WomensNet are gateways to articles, headlines, features, and weblinks on progressive issues."

Author:

Subjects:

Social Sciences

Keywords: Human Rights; Race Relations; Women's Issues; Environment

MagPortal.com: Magazine Articles on Society, Politics & Culture

http://www.MagPortal.com/c/soc/

A searchable, browsable directory of magazine articles on topics related to society, politics and culture that are available online. Topics covered include: Archaeology; Culture; Disabled; Gay & Lesbian; History; International Politics; Language; Law; Men; Mythology; Philanthropy; Philosophy & Deep Thought; Racial; Regional Politics & News; Religion & Spirituality; Social Issues; Women. Updated every few days.

Author: Hot Neuron LLC (support@magportal.com)

Subjects:

Social Sciences

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research

http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

"This site provides links to free resources for evaluation researchers. The links are to sites that have information on how to do different methods of evaluation and social research."

Author: Ya-Lin Liu

Subjects:

Social Sciences

Keywords: Education; Evaluation; Research methods; Sociology; Program evaluation

Social, Economic and Political Change

http://gsociology.icaap.org/

An annotated listing of links to information about large scale long-term political, economic and social systems change at the national and international level. This site links to sites with data, theory, national profiles, history, research, course syllabi, and other useful information.

Author: Gene Shackman

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Economics

Social Sciences

Social Sciences--Sociology

Keywords: Social Systems Theory; Globalization

SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

"The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law."

Author: Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol (webmaster-ilrt@bristol.ac.uk)

Subjects:

Business & Economics

Law, Government & Political Science--Law

Social Sciences

The Virtual Research Assistant (VRA)

http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/vra/door.html

"Tutorial on conducting social scientific research. This site primarily focuses on qualitative approaches to social science research." Topics covered: Ideas; Current Knowledge; Design; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Results. Includes a bibliography of related print resources.

Author: University of Kansas Department of Communication Studies (coms2@raven.cc.ukans.edu)

Subjects:

Social Sciences

Keywords: Research; Bibliography

The Virtual Statistical Assistant (VSA)

http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/vsa/index.htm

"The VSA employs a decision tree technique designed to help determine which statistical techniques are most appropriate for a given researchdesign. Just follow the prompts and the VSA will guide you through the process of selecting the appropriate statistic. If you are not satisfied with the decision tree model utilized in this version of the VirtualStatistical Assistant you might try the grid selection model which is provided as an alternative method in this virtual assistant." Focuses on social science research.

Author: University of Kansas Department of Communication Studies (coms2@raven.cc.ukans.edu)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Statistics

Social Sciences

Keywords: Research; Statistics

Yenza

http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/

"'Yenza' -- a word meaning 'do it' in the Xhosa and Zulu languages -- is a guide to using the Internet for research and teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The site includes links to resources for these purposes. In selecting them, the project team has tried to choose resources which are highly rated by subject experts."

Author: South African National Research Foundation and INFOLIT (aatothill@nrf.ac.za)

Subjects:

Computers & Internet--Internet

Arts & Humanities

Social Sciences

Keywords: research; teaching

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