Social Sciences

Virtual trip through ancient sites across the world.

Directory features articles about different countries organized by continent and offers information on natural resources, people, arts, economy, government, and history.

Series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 102 countries.

Tutorials, study questions, glossary, and citations facilitate secondary or undergraduate learning about communication theory. Whole site is searchable.

Economic calendar covering events such as US Treasury announcements, economic indicators and international banking holidays

Offers feature articles, links, and glossary.

Fosters explorations of gender and sexuality in a broad range of contexts in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and professions.

Promotes the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in the armed forces by organizing conferences, sponsoring research, and supporting graduate student training.

Annotated bibliography of tense, verbal aspect, aktionsart and related areas.

A critical analysis of the theoretical foundations of Korzybski's general semantics featuring many papers, commentary, and discussions.

The interpretations proffered in Herrnstein and Murray's book, "The Bell Curve", are not supported by reanalysis of their data.

Archive of issues from 1999 and 2000.

Annual undergraduate journal published at Columbia University provides an interdisciplinary forum for students to discuss problems in the social sciences, including economics, public policy, international relations and law.

Sociology web site offering free resources for Sociology teachers and students.

Essays, data analyses, and links on sociologies of knowledge, death, aging, family, time, and inequality.

Promotes and explores urban issues through photography.

Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.

An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.

Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.

Features information on the research programs in human anthropology, human ecology, social anthropology and human ethology.

"Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices."

Reference sources maintained by the Edinburgh University Library. Features links to catalogs, databases and journals.

Organization dedicated to facilitating communication between researchers. Features news, officers, contacts, information on workshops, and events.

Publication that provides an overview of the many facets of anthropological research. Site features subscription information and outlines of future volumes.

A guide to world-wide universities that provide graduate degrees in archaeology, with a searchable keyword index to faculty interests.

Explore lost civilizations and cultures, mystic places, sacred writings, unexplained artifacts, and science mysteries. Biographies of popular proponents of alternative theories.

Online editions of the bi-monthly Science Frontiers digest, produced by William R. Corliss

Provides information on a project, videos and book series that claims to solve historical, scientific, theological and Biblical mysteries.

Is there evidence recorded in myths and legends that there have been global disasters which have destroyed ancient civilisations? Could these catastrophes explain the true nature of the gods? Paul Whitesman discusses these topics.

Jennifer Hutchey lists archaeology fieldwork, employment advertisements, field schools, internships, volunteering, and related resources, mainly for North America.

Archaeological practices and their effect on Geophysical survey results, with suggestions for new standards.

Online news, reviews and virtual galleries of art and archaeology exhibitions in Europe and the United States; international calendar by European journalists and critics. [English/French]

Open access academic journal published annually. It aims to promote research into the history of human populations inhabiting South-Western Asia.

An international, interdisciplinary journal published bimonthly. Interscience Wiley lists available issues, with abstracts of articles.

Provides local and global information for Africa.

The aims of this organization are to promote research and teaching of African Studies in Australia and the Pacific.

Features program details, faculty listing, news, academic resources and contact information. Located in Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.

Features courses, seminars, colloquia, activities, funding opportunities and contact details. Located at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Features database of manuscript and document series microfilm titles. Also offers newsletter, list of current projects and contact information.

Research center for computational embodied neuroscience. Director: Razvan Florian.

Research in this Institute at Leipzig, Germany, focuses on human cognitive abilities and cerebral processes, especially language, music and action.

Researching the interactions between perception and cognition. Director: Robert Goldstone.

ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.

Organization for scholars in the Midwestern United States. Conference information and submission standards for its journal, Communication Studies.

Professional association for communication scholars in the northeastern United States. Submittal requirements for Communication Research Reports and Communication Quarterly.

Includes a library, online publications, statistics, directories, and links.

The Austrian Institute for Demography presents information on their organization, research program, research projects and publications (in German and English).

A guide through pictures of the history of the US Census. Includes PDFs of the full Census forms from 1790 to 2010.

Providing data on communities that want economic development to companies and entrepreneurs planning facilities location or site selection projects.

Eldis is funded by Danida and hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. It has a large number of links on development topics and organizations