Featured Links on the SocioLog
On July 19, 2002, I added an entry to the main page of the
SocioLog: "Featured Link". Here, I will rotate links to sites that
have some particular merit which I will try to comment on briefly just
below the link.
Below, I will keep a list of the links I will feature and the comments
on these links for reference.
January 2005 - present
- Crooked Timber
- Smart blog, inspired by social-scientific reasoning.
November-December 2004
- Google Scholar
- The SocioLog's favourite search enginge, now applied to scholarly
publications.
September-November
- Research in GMO Politics
and GMO Regulations
- Raging battles, social science analysis.
May-August 2004
- The World Social
Forum
- Keeping the world focused on social issues,
April 2004
- The International
Association of French-Language Sociologists
- Countering Sociology's anglocentricism.
February 2004
- The American Sociological
Association's Contexts
Magazine
- Making sociology accessible, in a thoughtful way.
December 2003/January 2004
- Electronic Journal of Sociology
- Now up to volume seven, going strong.
November 2003
- Global Change
Reports
- Ambitious project, transparent research and site design.
October 2003
- The SocioLog
- 100,000 visitors and they keep coming... Thanks!
September 2003
- UN Development
Programme: Human Development Report
- Accessible overview over global inequalities.
July 2003
- Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association
- At least one version of the current state of the discipline.
May 2003
- ASA
Member Resolution Against the War on Iraq
- Perhaps belated, but important discussion.
April 2003
- International Sociological
Association
- Keeping sociology international(ly relevant).
March 2003
- Social Science Research Council (USA)
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- Clear design, increasingly offering impressive substantive content.
February 2003
- Georg Simmel Online
- Extensive collection of texts by and (information) on Georg
Simmel
January 2003
- H-Net Discussion
Networks
- High quality listervs for almost any are of scholarly
interest.
November/December 2002
- Canadian
Journal of Sociology
- Exemplary site, lots of content.
October 2002
- Theory.org.uk Trading
Cards
- Theoretically-informed, highly entertaining.
September 2002
- East Asia Institute, Univ. of
Cambridge
- Lots of information, very nice design.
July 2002
- Kieran's
weblog
- Often sociologically-inspired, almost always insightful and
entertaining.
Last updated on January 3, 2006
©2002-2006 Julian Dierkes