| 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. |
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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. A Network of Social
Scientists and Development Professionals.Got something you'd like me to feature? Let me know. Other sites of interest Feed the hungry for free. Click to contribute. 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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A web site of The Global Social Change Research Project This project was created by Gene Shackman, Applied Sociologist. Send feedback or comment to me at gsociology at yahoo (dot) com Click here for information about the people on this project. 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 IR Theory web site The project and reports are also listed 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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