Understanding the World Today

Goal: Bring together knowledge of our social, political and economic world. Where we are, how we got here, and where we are  going.  A solid understanding of the world is the first step for improving living conditions of all people throughout the world.  More

Reports

Reports   Reports on major global social, demographic, economic and political changes, about Aging, Poverty, Globalization, Democracy, Terrorism, Literacy, Quality of Life, and more.

Basic Guides to the World   Basic guides to the world for kids, on quality of life, on demographics and more.

Data sets   Data sets used in our reports, and other data sets, on demographics, economics, mortality, freedom, literacy, energy, and much more.

Presentations based on these data sets, useful for teaching and public education.

Resources
Links to research, data, history and theory from researchers and organizations around the world.


Critical Topics  Links to information about global warming, terrorism and sustainable development.

Theory   Approaches and theories or reviews of theories of change, and general essays about change.

Research  and other papers about social change, economic growth, democracy, globalization and related topics.  

Journals  with research or essays about social, political, economic change related topics.  

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.

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.  

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.  

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.

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

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


Rudy Rummel's Freedom, Democracy, Peace site.


Developement Gateway Communities to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development. News, discussion, announcements.


We Can Solve It, http://www.wecansolveit.org/ educating people around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.


Development Cafe A Network of Social Scientists and Development Professionals.



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Other sites of interest

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Our Current Knowledge  
This site will present essays summarizing our current knowledge about global issues. 


Pictures, movies, virtual postcards, midi music,  for kids to look at or listen to. Lots of pictures etc.

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All of the work on this site was done at home, using our home computers and home time. This site does not represent the position of any organization, and in our work on this site, we do not represent any organization (except of course the Global Social Change Research Project).  


A web site of
The Global Social Change Research Project

This project was created by Gene Shackman, Applied Sociologist.
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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

Copyright by Gene Shackman, 2006, 2007


This project is also an affiliate of the  International Relations
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at the web sites of the American Sociological Association newsletters and Sections, the British Sociological Association, the International Sociological Association Research Committees, and the Development Gateway.  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.


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