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The academic papers in this category include articles, thesis, dissertations and so forth, but not abstracts, that are available to read immediately via the internet. Normally a link will bring the reader to a specific paper however collections of papers on specific topics or perspectives or by specific authors may also be linked. All items in this category are written from a sociological perspective, deal with an empirical or theoretical issue and follow standard academic conventions for discourse and citations.

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• Environmental Sociology Publications

Resources in This Category

• An Essay on Radical Labor Education

  http://clogic.eserver.org/2-1/yates.html
  A paper by Michael Yates, a labor educator, tracing the history of radical labor education suggesting that the time for renewal may be at hand.

• Cultural Selection

  http://www.agner.org/cultsel
  A collection of papers by Agner Fog on "cultural selection" including how it differs to sociology. Sample chapters from the book, Cultural Selection, are also linked.

• How Can the Human Self Be Truly Described?

  http://www.aestheticrealism.org/es-expl.htm
  An excerpt from the preface to Eli Siegel's major text, "Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism".

• Howard Becker

  http://howardsbecker.com/
  Assorted by Howard S. Becker (Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, USA) that, in his own words, "[are made available here] primarily to make things I've written and published in obscure places available to anyone who wants them."

• Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion

  http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tyoelama/sowing/report/InformationSociety99.pdf
  The first interim report (literature review) delivered to the European Commission representing a "state of the art" review of all aspects of work, especially change, in the Information Society in Europe in 1999.

• Peculiarities of Cyberspace: Building Blocks for an Internet Sociology

  http://www.sociosite.org/
  A resource of essays and articles discussing a range of social phenomena arising from the increased use of ICT and the internet in social life. These are argued to form the beginning of a new sub-discipline, cyber-sociology, or netsociology, by Albert Benschop (University of Amsterdam). Site available in English and Dutch.

• Reports Made by 'The Global Social Change Research Project'

  http://gsociology.icaap.org/reports.html
  A resource of reports showing recent social, demographic, political and communication technology changes in the world as a whole and for developed and less developed sections.

• Sociological Explanations between Micro and Macro and the Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

  http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-01/1-01kelle-e.htm
  An article by Udo Kelle (University of Vechta) providing an overview of the important methodological discussions surrounding the basic questions of mixed (qualitative and quantitative) method designs in sociology.

• The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons (with a Focus on Thailand)

  http://aidseld.psc.isr.umich.edu/publications.html
  A resource of reports and publications made by a team of Thai and U.S. researchers conducting an on-going investigation into the impact of AIDS on older people since 1998.

• University of Calgary: The Social Construction of Male Homosexuality and Related Suicide Problems

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~ptrembla/homosexuality-suicide/
  Includes Problem description, links to publications and resources and contact information. Located in Calgary, AB, Canada.

• University of California, Berkeley: Center for Culture, Organizations, and Politics

  http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/culture/papers.html
  Offers working papers organized chronologically.

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