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| 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 This section has Reports , Basic Guides to the World , Data sets and Presentations all about major global social, demographic, economic and political trends in the last several decades, about topics such as Aging, Poverty, Globalization, Democracy, Terrorism, Literacy, Quality of Life, and more. We also have a report about Theory of Change, how to understand all the changes that have been happening. Resources Links to other sites with Theory , Research , Data , National Profiles , History ,and Software that are useful in studying social change. We also link to Organizations, Journals , Future studies and resources, pages that are Links to other links and to Other pages that don't exactly fit into above categories, including maps, click to donate, and other stuff. Finally, we link to web sites about The Progress of Society and also about Critical Topics such as global warming, terrorism and sustainable development. |
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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 All photos in the top banner are from USAID, from these sites Teacher Training Institute in Iraq Preventing early marriages Access to family planning Helping children grow strong |
The project and our reports are also listed at these web sites including the American Sociological Association Section on Economic Sociology, and Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict , and the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, the International Political Science Association , the Economics Network of the UK's Higher Education Academy and many others. This project is also an affiliate of the International Relations IR Theory web site |
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