World Hunger Year - WHY - WHY
attacks root causes of hunger and poverty by promoting effective and innovative
community-based solutions which create self-reliance, economic justice, and food security.
ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class
- The purpose of the Section on Race, Gender,and Class is to support research, teaching
and practice that examines the interactive effects of race, gender, and class phenomena,
and a curriculum which underscores the centrality of race, gender, and class in society
and in sociologic alanalysis.
Goodwill Industries International - Goodwill
Industries will actively strive to achieve the full participation in society of people
with disabilities and other individuals with special needs by expanding their
opportunities and occupational capabilities through a network of autonomous, nonprofit,
community-based organizations providing services throughout the world in response to local
needs.
The Hunger Project - The most defining
characteristic of The Hunger Project is that we are shaped by an unyielding commitment to
the end of chronic, persistent hunger. We focus on the human component of ending hunger.
We recognize that the persistence of hunger is most fundamentally a human issue, not a
technical or financial one.
Social Policy Research Centre - University of New
South Wales - the Social Welfare Research Centre was established in January 1980 on
the basis of a five-year Agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the University
of New South Wales. Funding for the Centre is provided under the Agreement by the
Commonwealth through the Department of Social Security. The Centre operates as an
independent unit of the University and undertakes research into a wide range of social
policy issues. The findings of this research are made available to specialist audiences
and the general public through publications, seminars and conference presentations.
9 Characteristics of
the New Inequality in Europe - discusses the impact of the service economy on class
distinctions. "Before the French Revolution, about 1 in 20 of the French labour force
worked for the Court - making wigs, building palaces, gilding statues, or as servants. Is
the post-industrial economy a court economy, in which the work of many, exists for the
status of a privileged few? The trend is certainly in that direction."
Official Social Classifications in
the UK - The practice of officially classifying the British population according to
occupation and industry began in 1851. David Rose, Associate Director and Professor in the
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change, University of Essex, examines the history and
process of the practice.
Social Stratification
and Social Mobility Survey in Japan, 1995 - SSM (Social Stratification and Social
Mobility) project has collected personal histories, concerned with social status and
inequality, with national representative samples in Japan. At 1955 the first survey was
conducted by the Japanese Association of Sociology. After that basically similar surveys
are repeated at intervals of ten years. The fifth survey, which is represented by Seiyama
Kazuo (Univ. of Tokyo), was conducted at 1995. Sampled were about 8,000 people aged 20-69
of the Japan electoral register.
New Zealand Social Science Research Data and
Information Services Centre - The New Zealand Social Research Data Archives is seeking
to encourage the establishment of a New Zealand Social Science Research Clearing House.
The kinds of services such a centre would provide are illustrated below. The New
Zealand Social Research Data Archives itself is currently located at Massey University,
Palmerston North, New Zealand. The Centre's activities would be divided into eight
sections: 1.New Zealand Social Science Associations/Organisations 2.New Zealand Social
Research Data Archives 3.New Zealand Social Research Information Database Services 4.New
Zealand Social Research Electronic Publishing Services 5.New Zealand Social Research
Electronic Lists 6.Gateway to Social Science Overseas
7.New Zealand Social Sciences Research and Directory Information Services 8. International
Data Archives.
World Health Organization Statistical Information
System - The purpose of this WHOSIS website (WHO Statistical Information System)
is to describe - and to the extent possible provide access to - statistical and
epidemiological data and information presently available from the World Health
Organization and elsewhere in electronic or other forms. Most WHO technical programmes
make information available to the public. The WHOSIS allows the user to search by keywords
through the entire WHO website, and globally throughout the WWW.
CHASS Data Centre - This collection of on-line
databases and of custom built search and retrieval programs is maintained by Computing in
the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the University of Toronto. Access
restrictions do apply. For more information, see List of Databases at CHASS.
German Socio-Economic Panel and PSID-GSOEP
Equivalent Data File on CD-ROM - The German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) is a German
national treausure. It is a representative longitudinal data set of persons, households,
and families in the Federal Republic of Germany. Panel sections have focused on changing
household composition, employment, income, assets, and job and regional mobility. In
addition, it contains information on education, health, leisure, satisfaction, and self
worth.
A Social History of
the Dutch in Quebec - by Johanna H. Lowensteyn - The study analyses the history
of people of Dutch origin in the province of Quebec in terms of settlement patterns,
immigration experience, economic and socio-cultural development and integration. Attention
is given to the rural/urban distinction, and push and pull factors are assessed during the
three periods under consideration: the "Loyalist" period, 1900-1945, and 1946
onward.
Australian National University - Social Science Data
Archives (SSDA) - The Social Science Data Archives (SSDA), located in the Research
School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, was set up in 1981 with a
brief to collect and preserve computer-readable data relating to social, political and
economic affairs and to make the data available for further analysis. Data sets resulting
from research by academic, government and private organisations and individuals have been
deposited in the Archives, and further deposits are actively sought.
ESRC Data Archive - The Data Archive at the
University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in
the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource
centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other
national archives, internationally.
Estonian Social Science Data Archive
- The Estonian Social Science Data Archives(ESSDA) is an interdisciplinary center that
functions as the national data bank. ESSDA forms a constituent part of the Faculty of
Social Sciences of Tartu University. The chief goal of ESSDA is to contribute to the
maintenance and reutilization of social information that has been gathered in Estonia as
well as the integration of Estonia into the international exchange of social science data.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Social Sciences Data
Archive (SSDA) - The Social Sciences Data Archive (SSDA) of the Faculty of Social
Sciences at the Hebrew University, collects, preserves and distributes data of interest to
the academic community. The SSDA now houses approximately 1000 datasets including national
sample survey data, local studies, census microdata as well as government records in
selected fields and macroeconomic series. A detailed catalog as well as the macro
databanks are available through this web-site.
Swedish Social Science Data Service - The Archive of
SSD receives, processes and distributes data from researchers and research institutes at
Swedish universities,Swedish public agencies and several Swedish private data producers in
the area of public opinion researach. The Archive also receives and distribute within
Sweden the same kind of data from more than 130 countries available through collaboration
agreements with similar academic service organizations and through a national membership
of Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at University of
Michigan.
UK Census Information Gateway - Welcome to the UK
Census help and information website. These pages contain information about Census datasets
and products, publications, links to the academic Census Units and other organisations,
and information on progress towards the next Census in 2001. These pages have been set up
under the aegis of the Census Advisory Committee to the Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) and are maintained by the academic Census Units which were established
under the ESRC/JISC 1991 Census Initiative. The intention is to provide an interconnected
information resource on all matters relating to census research, dissemination, support
and future planning.
