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      MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES / PAPERS and ARTICLES /
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      Research PhraseTranslation
      It has long been known . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I didn't look up the original reference.
      A definite trend is evident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . These data are practically meaningless.
      Of great theoretical and practical importance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Interesting to me.
      While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to these questions . . .
                          An unsuccessful experiment, but I still hope to get it published.
      Three of the samples were chosen for detailed study . . . . . .
                          The results of the others didn't make any sense.
      Typical results are shown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The best results are shown.
      These results will be shown in a subsequent report . . . . . . . .
                          I might get around to this sometime if I'm pushed.
      The most reliable results are those obtained by Jones. . . . . . .
                            He was my graduate assistant.
      It is believed that . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I think.
      It is generally believed that . . . . . . . . . . . . A couple of other people think so too.
      It is clear that much additional work will be required before a complete understanding of the phenomenon occurs . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .I don't understand it.
      Correct within an order of magnitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wrong.
      It is hoped that this study will stimulate further investigation in this field . . . .
                       This is a lousy paper, but so are all the others on this miserable topic.
      Thanks are due to Joe Blotz for assistance with the experiment and to George Frink for valuable discussions . . . . . . . . .Blotz did the work and Frink explained to me what it meant.
      A careful analysis of obtainable data . . .Three pages of notes were obliterated when I knocked over a glass of beer.
      Graham, Jr., C. D.,

      Metal Progress
      Volume 71, Number 5
      May, 1957
      Keep these thoughts in mind when you start reading these papers.
      Many thanks to Larry Ridener for providing such a huge amount of major works on the web. Many of these paper links will take you to his area.

      PAPERS and ARTICLES

      Just a little somewhere for you to start your literature search or look at the original articles of some early and current theorists.

      Abstracts from the U. of Alberta

      Abstracts from papers on Social Cognition Social Psychology abstracts

      Action Systems and Social Systems Talcott Parsons

      The Art of Impression Management Erving Goffman, From The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday, 1959, pp. 208-212.

      Autopoietic Theory and Social Systems: Theory and Practice by: Randall Whitaker

      Bureaucratic Structure and Personality From Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1957, pp. 195-206.

      Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics: Social Movements since the 1960sClaus Offe; [Charles S. Maier (ed.) ]

      The Communist Manifesto  Karl Marx, BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS

      The Communist Manifesto  Study Guide and full text available here

      Competition, Conflict, Accommodation and Assimilation  R. E. Park and E. W. Burgess

      Comte "Positivistic Approach to Society"

      The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau translated byW. Conyngham Mallory; this is a huge text file

      The Credential Society Randall Collins

      Culture Shift Inglehart, Bob

      Definition of the Situation W. I. Thomas, The Unadjusted Girl. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1923.

      "Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodological Inquiry into the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno" by Stephen Bronner

      DuBois' Life and Times

      "The Erosion of our Value Spheres?" from Spoon Collective, R. vonSchomberg

      Escape to Cyberia: Subcultures as Agents of Change Joshua A. Fruhlinger

      A Formal Theory of Differentiation in Organizations Peter Blau

      General Propositions from George Homans

      Howie's Home Page [Howard Becker] making some of his published works available

      IMF: International Monetary Fund full text working papers and papers on policy analysis from Jan 1997 - present

      International Gramsci Society Newsletters

      Iron Law of Oligarchy Robert Michels

      Living in the World: Dilemmas of the Self Anthony Giddens

      The Lucifer Principle Excerpts from Howard Bloom's book examining history from a scientific angle.

      Manifest and Latent Functions Robert K. Merton

      Marxism Page plain text files of Marxist classic and contemporaries

      Marxism Papers at the Marxism Archive by other writers

      "Microsoft's Impact in the Seattle Suburbs"

      Mind as the Product of Social Interaction  George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934.

      Neopaganism Walter Luke's research paper on the emergence of neopagan religions.

      The Norm of Reciprocity Alvin Gouldner

      Notes on Weber's notions of class, status, and power also definitions of terms such as Protestant Ethic, methodology in Social Science, etc.

      On the Division of Labor Emile Durkheim

      On the Positivistic Approach to Society Comte

      On Primary Groups Charles Horton Cooley

      "The Other Side of Devolution: Shifting Relationships Between State and Local Governments"--Keith Watson and Steven D. Gold, Urban Institute

           .PDF version (16p.) other.pdf
      The Polarization of American Society Barry Bluestone

      Policy Analysis: Assessing the New Federalism data issues such as income security, health, child well-being, demographic, fiscal and political conditions, and social services for the 50 states and Washington D.C.

      Policy Research Working Papers from the World Bank available for download from 1993-1997

      Poll and Survey Data and Findings Princeton University

      Portland Press Herald: Rich and Poor--The Growing Gap: For Many, High Cost Blocks Education

      Power and Resistance in the Social: The Critical Theory of Michel Foucault by John Pratt

      The Power Elite C. Wright Mills

      "Preparing the US Air Force for Military Operations Other Than War"--Alan Vick, David T. Orletsky, Abram N. Shulsky, John Stillion, Rand Organization; pdf file

      Presentation of Self Erving Goffman

      "Processes of State Formation and Nation Building" Elias' 1970 ISA paper

      ProQuest -- Digital Dissertations abstracts; strategies for getting your panel to accept online dissertations

      Quotables: Dan Quayle on Science and Technology

      The Rape Crisis Behind Bars Stephen Donaldson

      Russia's Assault on Religious Freedom Ariel Cohen, Heritage Foundation pdf file

      Science of the Concrete Janine Mileaf on Claude Levi-Strauss

      Social Exchange Peter Blau

      Society as a Human Product from Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman (1966)

      Sociological Perspective: Society as a Drama Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman

      Some essential features of common understandings Harold Garfinkel

      Sorokin Essay: "The Integral Theory of Truth and Reality"

      Statistics About "Deadbeat Dads" and the Effects of Absent Fathers Marty Dart

      The Structural Study of Myth Claude Levi-Strauss

      Teen Violence: The Myths and the Realities Randolph T. Holhut

      "Terra: Brazil's Landless Movement" from The New York Times

      Theorems of Legitimation Crisis Jurgen Habermas

      Unit Act of Social Systems Talcott Parsons

      Urban Institute's: "Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues" 1995

      Veblen, T. B. links to his full text writings

      Weapon Related Victimization in Selected Inner City High School Samples

      The Works of Jon Elster articles, books, debates, reviews

      World System Theory from Immanuel Wallerstein


      Papers and Articles /  Newspapers / Magazines / Misc.

      COSER'S REVIEWS of the WRITINGS of IMPORTANT THEORISTS

      From Larry Ridener
      Cooley   /  Comte   /   Durkheim   /   Martineau   /  Marx   /   Mead   /   Pareto   /   Parks   /   Simmel   /  Spencer   /   Thomas   /   Veblen   /   Weber

      These are excellent reviews of key concepts in social theory and who said what.

      COOLEY

      Cooley's "The Looking Glass Self"

      Cooley's "The Organic View of Society"

      Cooley's "The Primary Group"         "The Primary Group"  Cooley

      Cooley's Social Process

      Cooley's Sociological Method

      COMTE

      Comte's "Heirarchy of the Sciences"

      Comte's "Social Statics and Dynamics"

      Comte's "The Law of Human Progress"

      Comte's "The Normative Doctrine"

      DURKHEIM

      Durkheim's Individual and Society

      Durkheim's The Sociology of Religion

      Durkheim "What is a Social Fact?"

      MARTINEAU

      Martineau on Household Education

      Martineau on Marriage

      Martineau's Writer's Resolutions

      MARX

      Marx's Alienation

      Marx's Dynamics of Social Change

      Marx's Overall Doctrine

      MEAD

      Mead's "The Genesis of the Self"

      Mead's "The 'I' and the 'Me'"

      Mead's "The Self in Society"

      PARETO

      Pareto's The Lions and the Foxes

      Pareto's Logical and Nonlogical Action

      Pareto's Residues and Derivatives

      Pareto's Social Utility "Of" and for Collectives

      Pareto's Subjective Intentions and Objective Consequences

      Pareto's Two Types of Nonlogical Theories

      PARKS

      Parks' "The Biotic Order and the Social Order"

      Parks' "Collective Behavior and Social Control"

      Parks' "Four Major Social Processes"

      Parks' "The Self and the Social Role"

      Parks' "Social Change"

      Parks' "Social Distance"

      SIMMEL

      Simmel's Ambivalent View of Modern Cultures

      Conflict as Sociation Georg Simmel

      Simmel's Formal Sociology

      Simmel's A Note on the Philosophy of Money

      Simmel's The Significance of Numbers for Social Life

      Simmel's Social Types

      Simmel's The Stranger

      SPENCER

      Spencer's Evolution-- Unilinear, Multilinear

      Spencer's Functionalism

      Spencer's Growth, Structure and Differentiation

      Spencer's Individualism vs. Organicism

      Spencer's Noninterventions and the Survival of the Fittest

      Spencer's Obstacles to Objectivity

      Spencer "The Principles of Sociology"  Principles of Sociology Herbert Spencer

      Spencer's Social Types: Militant and Industrial Societies

      THOMAS

      Thomas' "The Polish Peasant"  A landmark

      Thomas' "The Polish Peasant"  Theoretical underpinnings

      Thomas' Situational Analysis

      Thomas' "A Typology of Human Actors"

      VEBLEN

      Veblen's The Anatomy of Competition

      Veblen's Functional Analysis

      Veblen's Theory of Social Change

      WEBER

      Weber's Bureaucracy           Bureaucracy                 Characteristics of Bureaucracy

      Weber's Causality and Probability

      Weber on class, status, and power

      Weber's The Function of Ideas

      Weber's The Ideal Type

      Weber on Natural Science, Social Science, and Value Relevance

      Weber's Rationalization and Disenchantment

      Weber's Types of Authority


      Papers and Articles / Coser's Reviews / Newspapers / Magazines / Misc.

      And here's what the press is saying. Also useful in paper or thesis writing. but don't use too many of these in a single paper, unless you're analyzing content, of course.

      NEWSPAPERS

      The Austin ChronicleMarch 1995-1997; keyword searchable

      Boston Globe Online: Search

      The Chicago Tribunearticles available from 1985-1997 (copy cost: $1.95 per article)

      Scoop Cybersleuth's Internet Guide

      The New York Times on the Web

      NewsLink links to hundreds of newspapers and magazines

      San Antonio Express-News On-line Homepage

      The Ultimate Collection of Newslinks broken down by continent, country, and state

      USA Today


      Papers and Articles / Coser's Reviews / Newspapers / Misc.

      Yet another media source. Same suggestion as for Newspapers.

      MAGAZINES

      The Atlantic Monthly Search engine for a century's worth of articles; also thematic archives (death penalty; racial issues, etc.)

      Cyber Culture Magazine

      Discover Magazine (general science)

      LIFE Photo Home Page (Time)

      Mother Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia

      National Review

      The New RepublicWeekly journal of opinions; searchable archives

      The Saturday Evening Post cartoons, humor, health, photos

      The Self Help Psychology Magazine A general electronic magazine of psychology

      Urban Desires Magazine

      U.S. News Online Magazine

      The UTNE Lens -- February 1996 Weekly News

      Washington Post

      Welcome to HotWired!Computer-related and web information

      Welcome to Money Magazine


      Papers and Articles / Coser's Reviews /  Newspapers / Magazines

      Here are more resources that didn't fit neatly in any other category. They can still be useful, however.

      MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES

      Areas Studies gives access to information on individual countries. Excellent souces of international sites regarding comparative politics.

       Article Index -- Jones Multimedia Encyclopedia

      Centre of Criminology, U. of Toronto; texts,documents, etc.

      CIA Publications Includes World Fact Book among many other resources; keyword search

      Department of Education Online Publications index

      Educational Policy Analysis Archives
       

      Elias Interview: 'We have not learnt to control nature and ourselves enough'. By: Aafke Steenhuis. Originally: De Groene Amsterdammer 16.5.1984, pp. 10-11.

      The English Server   Over 18,000 humanities texts online! Also access to vegetarian recipes.

      The English Server Same Place -- Different URL

      H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online provides information and resources for the Humanities and Social Sciences; hypertext links, teaching project, e-mail lists

      Merger Online newsletter from the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations

      Joseph Rowntree Foundation Access to several hundred research summaries; keyword search; focus on housing, social care and social policy

      Juristat Index provides criminal information for Canada

      National Center for Educational Statistics [USA] many free publications

      Nielsen Media Research -- Interactive Services

      NORC GSS (Queen's College) Download an electronic searchable version of NORC's Annotated Bibliography of papers using the General Social Surveys or do an interactive search online.

      Policy and Research Report The Report (ISSN 074-8485) is published several times a year by the Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. The report summarizes many of the activities and some of the research of the Institute.

      Research Reports Published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; a lot of media articles here

      Statistics Canada Web Site searchable publication catalogue and the Daily

      What's New in WWW Social Sciences (U. Florida, USA)

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