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Global Social Change reports

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Introduction to the social change projects http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/intro.html    Overview of our project, purposes, plans, notes.

Summary of reports    http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/repsum.html    presenting brief summary of major worl demographic, social, political and communication trends over the last several decades.

Summary of theory   http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/summary2.htm   summary/review of theories of change, and review of current world situation.

Major demographic trends http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/demsum.html    summary of main demographic trends of the past several decades; changes in population size, population growth, infant mortality rates, age distributions. See a pdf version here http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/demsumpdf3.pdf

Major social trends http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/socsum.html summary of main socio-demographic trends of the past several decades; changes in urbanization, education and ethnolinguistic fractionalization.

Major political trends http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/polsum.html summary of trends in freedom and conflict of the past several decades, changes in political governance, freedom, armed conflict, refugees and terrorism.

Major economic trends http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/econ/econsum.html summary of trends in gdp, economic structure, poverty of the past several decades, and a discussion of poverty.

Major technological trends: communication http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/tech1sum.html Summary of trends in TV, radio, newspapers, internet and phone use.

Major technological trends: energy production and consumption http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/energ/energytrends.html Summary of trends in energy production and consumption, by type (e.g., oil, nuclear, hydroelectric).

Context of change in the 21st century http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/longterm.html This report presents very long term patterns of change in population and economic output, from 0 CE (common era) to 1998. Also shows economic changes in the recent decades.

SELECTED DATA from above reports and other free to use data http://gsociology.icaap.org/dataupload.html

pd-data, population, infant mortality and life expectancy, from the US Census International Database. Data by country and population trends aggregated by more/less developed and by region. Also powerpoint slides showing the trends.

eia_gdp, gdp, gdp per capita and energy consumption per capita, from the US International Energy Agency. Data by country and trends aggregated by world region. Also powerpoint slides showing the trends.

idbcensus123, which combines the following data into one lotus format file:

U.S. Census Bureau International Data Base (IDB) http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html "The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world." This data set contains variables of population size, births, deaths, net migration and infant mortality. Dr. Shackman repackaged the data to make it more convenient, into a lotus spreadsheet.

Percent of population with no schooling, from Barro and Lee's, International Data on Educational Attainment, 1960, 1980 and 2000. http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/ciddata.html (near the bottom)

All data sets and all references in above reports are used by permission.

Free Statistical Tools on the Web http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/statontheweb.html brief review of free statistical resources. A short version of this article first appeared in the International Statistical Association newsletter, Vol 26, Number 1 (76), 2002, and is at http://isi.cbs.nl/Nlet/NLet021-00.htm and http://isi.cbs.nl/FreeTools.htm

Free datasets on the web, regional data http://isi.cbs.nl/Nlet/NLet033.htm International Statistical Association newsletter, Volume 27, No. 3 (81) 2003. This is a description of regional organizations that have free data.

Free datasets on the web http://isi.cbs.nl/Nlet/NLet031.htm International Statistical Association newsletter, Volume 27, No. 1 (79) 2003. This is an extended description of the datasets used to create the demographic and social trends reports.

Useful Public Domain and Other Free to use Data http://isi.cbs.nl/Nlet/NLet053.htm#05FreeToUseData ISI newsletter Newsletter Volume 29, No. 3 (87) 2005. Data from US Govt (public domain), and a number of other sources.

Review of World System Theory http://gsociology.icaap.org/wst2.htm Review based primarily on Wallerstein's 1984 book, Politics of the World-economy: the States, the Movements,and the Civilizations.

Book Reviews
Book reviews are posted on this site by permission.

Review of Chirot http://gsociology.icaap.org/chirot.html Review of How Societies Change, by Daniel Chirot. Review published in Teaching Sociology, April, 2001.

Review of Nelson, Tilley and Walker. http://gsociology.icaap.org/transforming.html Review of Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies. http://books.nap.edu/html/transform/ (if this doesn't work, try http://books.nap.edu/html/transform/contents.htm ) edited by Joan M. Nelson, Charles Tilley, and Lee Walker, for the Task Force on Economies in Transition, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
Review published in Teaching Sociology, 30(2), April 2002, 274-275.

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