Social Change
- ASA Section on Marxist Sociology - intended to advance the interests of the ASA Marxist Section, and to serve as a resource and meeting point for Marxist scholars. This page is a living document, and we expect it to grow as it matures.
- Marxist Section Newsletter - news and information about Section activities and programs.
- Critical Sociology - Critical Sociology publishes articles informed by a critical left perspective on contemporary social issues continuing its status as a select alternative social science journal.
- ASA Section on Consumers, Commodities and Consumption - The organizing group for Consumers, Commodities, and Consumption seeks to foster dialogue and debate among those who are interested in and concerned about the place of goods and commodities in social life.
- ASA Section on History of Sociology - The term "the history of sociology" is most frequently used to refer to the chronicle of the discipline's general theories and theorists. But other issues investigated in this scholarship include: methodological advances; the politics of the profession; the discovery and introduction of the forgotten theorists; biographies of significant contributors to the discipline's subfields; accounts of departments and of their influence at particular historic moments; the work of applied sociologists; the administration and staffing of the association; chronicles of the annual and regional meetings; and the gender, race, and class politics that have influenced the professionalization of the discipline (and the construction of and challenges to the canon of "sociology's founding texts").
- ASA Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology - The purpose of the Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) is to promote scholarly research and professional activity relating to sociology, science, knowledge, and technology.
- The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) - The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) is a nonprofit, professional association. It was founded in 1975 and now has an international membership of about 1000. The main purpose is to bring together those interested in understanding science and technology, including the way they develop and interact with their social contexts.
- ASA Section on Sociological Practice - The purpose of the Section on Sociological Practice is to provide a forum for sociologists working in diverse applied settings, e.g., industry, government, higher education, voluntary associations or as solo practitioners; and to increase understanding of the relationship between sociological practice and sociological knowledge.
- Sociological Practice Association - Sociological Practice Association (SPA) is the professional association focusing on the use of sociology. For twenty years, SPA's leadership has linked sociology with social action.
- Society for Applied Sociology - The Society for Applied Sociology, founded in 1978, is an international organization for professionals involved in applying sociological knowledge in a wide variety of settings.
- The Association for Humanist Sociology - Founded in 1976, the AHS emerged from our realization that conventional mainstream sociology was unresponsive to people, their needs, concerns and values.It is our shared commitment to use sociology for people, as well as the larger needs of the planet, which shapes our orientation to humanist sociology. We intend to be an active support network for sociologists and other scholars committed to humanist values, as they practice in institutions often hostile to such an approach.
- Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development - U.S. Department of Energy site which allows the user to: Read about other communities that have discovered the benefits of sustainable development; Locate technical and financial resources that can help your community plan and carry out sustainable development projects; and Access model codes and ordinances other communities have used to implement sustainable development.
- Soros Foundation Network - dedicated to building open societies around the world. The concept of an open society is based on the recognition that people act on imperfect knowledge and nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. The Soros foundations network has offices in New York, Budapest, Brussels, Paris and Washington D.C.
- Open Society Institute - New York - Soros Foundation Network - The Open Society Institute - New York promotes the development and maintenance of open societies around the world by supporting an array of programs dealing with educational, social, and legal reform. Together with the Open Society Institute-Budapest, OSI-New York assists the other organizations in the Soros foundations network by providing programmatic, administrative, financial, and technical support.
- Peace Brigades International (PBI) - Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a grassroots organization that explores and promotes nonviolent peacekeeping and support for human rights. When invited, we send teams of volunteers into areas of political repression and conflict.
- Progress
and Freedom Foundation - The Progress
& Freedom Foundation was founded in 1993 to study the
digital revolution and its implications for public policy. The Foundation believes that the digital revolution portends fundamental cultural, economic, political and social changes. While these changes bring challenges, they also create the potential for a new era of human progress. - Center for a New American Dream - The Center for a New American Dream is a not-for-profit membership-based organization that helps individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance our quality of life and protect the environment. Our goal is to encourage more Americans to adopt our motto of: MORE FUN, LESS STUFF!!
- Consumers Union - Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization serving only consumers. We are a comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns. Since 1936, our mission has been to test products, inform the public, and protect consumers.
- Frugal/Mindful Living Resources - Offering a comprehensive list of resources for living a fuller, more satisfying life without piling up unnecessary possessions and destroying the natural environment.
- Global Consumer Culture - list of resources on global consumer culture and global environmental issues by Richard Wilk, Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.
- Adbusters - We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
- The Museum of Weird Consumer Culture - Art about consumerism---Hybrids of commodities and handicrafts---Idiotic products. Satire --- intended or unintended. The most banal, grotesque, ironic, twisted or perverse creations of the capitalist marketplace.
- New Road Map Foundation - The New Road Map Foundation (NRM) provides people with practical tools and innovative approaches for managing and mastering basic life challenges. Our name reflects the fact that people need new ways to navigate the road of life - ways based on a vision of a cooperative human community in a diverse yet interconnected world.
- Simple Living Network - the Simple Living Network is a small, grass-roots, on-line service that provides information about publications and tools for those wanting to learn how to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative lifestyle.
- Seeds of Simplicity - Seeds of Simplicity is a national, nonprofit membership organization working to help mainstream and symbolize voluntary simplicity as an authentic social and environmental issue. It is a Los Angeles-based program of the Center for Religion, Ethics & Social Policy at Cornell University. All resources are available without charge to members and include diverse educational materials on free-thinking for children and adults, the consultation/coordination services of The Simplicity Circles Project, and the opportunity to preserve a changing "living legacy" for present and future generations in the Living Legacies Archive that is part of this web site.
- Social Change - from Gene Shackman. This site looks at long term, large scale changes in social, political and economic systems at the national and international levels. The principal aim is to present information that can be used to explain historical change, growth and development. For example: why did industrialization first occur in Europe; and what is globalization and how is it happening. This site presents links to sites with theories, approaches, data and research about the change process.
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