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	Center for Culture, Organizations, and Politics URL: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~iir/culture/papers.html ODP description: Working papers by the research centre based in the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California, Berkeley.
	Modelling the Adoption of AEMs as an Innovation Diffusion Process URL: http://wwwlisc.clermont.cemagref.fr/ImagesProject/Results/models/Diffusion%20Model/dolomieu.html ODP description: An internal working paper literature review on the diffusion of innovations by Edmund Chattoe (research fellow) and Nigel Gilbert (professor), Department of Sociology, University of Surrey (UK). Works are applies to the task of modelling the decisions made by farmers to adopt The Agricultural Environmental Measures (AEMs). Page title: Modelling the Adoption of AEMs as an Innovation Diffusion Process}
	Identifying Dimensions of Urban Social Change In Dublin - 1986 to 1996 URL: http://www.ucd.ie/gsi/pdf/35-2/dublin.pdf ODP description: A quantitative study of social and demographic changes in Dublin, Ireland employing principal component analysis (PCA) on data collected using ten-yearly census data and smaller mid-decade census data.
	About Gender URL: http://www.gender.org.uk/about/ ODP description: A wide-ranging resource of essays and articles published by the Derby TV/TS Group (UK) discussing the manifold interpretations of gender. Articles/essays are categories by perspective and are added regularly. Page title: About Gender - Gender Roles - Gender Variance - Gender Identity. Towards a balanced account of human gender and sex differences. Page description: Human gender roles, identities and systems. Towards a balanced account of psychology, sociology, biology, history and evolution of human sex and gender differences - an ongoing project with extensive booklists and bibliographies.
	Cultural Selection URL: http://www.agner.org/cultsel ODP description: 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. Page title: List of publictions on cultural selection Page description: List of publications on cultural selection by Agner Fog
	How Can the Human Self Be Truly Described? URL: http://www.aestheticrealism.org/es-expl.htm ODP description: An excerpt from the preface to Eli Siegel's major text, "Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism". Page title: Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, describes his philosophy Page description: We are glad to reproduce excerpts by Eli Siegel from Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism.
	Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion URL: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tyoelama/sowing/report/InformationSociety99.pdf ODP description: 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.
	Reports Made by 'The Global Social Change Research Project' URL: http://gsociology.icaap.org/reports.html ODP description: 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. Page title: global social change reportsGEMCat -- http://gsociology.icaap.org/reports.html Page description: reports from the global social change research project
	Virtual Urban Legends: Investigating the Ecology of the World Wide Web URL: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper37.htm ODP description: A paper by Edmund Chattoe, University of Surrey, that discusses the evolution and spread of replicating messages ("chain mail") on the World Wide Web. The analysis draws a comparison to features shared by typical urban legends. Page title: iriss
	An Essay on Radical Labor Education URL: http://eserver.org/clogic/2-1/yates.html ODP description: 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. Page title: Yates: "An Essay on Radical Labor Education"
	Sociological Explanations between Micro and Macro and the Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods URL: http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-01/1-01kelle-e.htm ODP description: 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. Page title: FQS 2(1) Udo Kelle: Sociological Explanations between Micro and Macro and the Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Page description: Forum: Qualitative Social Research is a multilingual online journal. Its main aim is to promote discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different countries and disciplines.
	The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons (with a Focus on Thailand) URL: http://aidseld.psc.isr.umich.edu/publications.html ODP description: 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. Page title: Publications: The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons (with a focus on Thailand) Page description: A joint team of Thai and U.S. researchers from the University of Michigan, Tulane University, Chulalongkorn University and Mahidol University have been studying the impact of AIDS on older persons in Thailand since 1998 through grants from the U.S. National Institute on Aging