Anthropology

Anthropologists study human beings: their origins and behavior, as well as their cultural, physical and social development. Here are some great collections of anthropological resources, suitable for students as well as serious researchers.


Web:

http://vlib.anthrotech.com/
http://www.anthro.net/

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Communication Studies

Don't just talk -- communicate. Can't? This'll help. Lotsa links here. Lotsa stuff for the ubiquitous communication student, as well as his or her teachers. Cool. (Although I think I really want to go into broadcasting.) Like, it's great. On the Web, nobody knows if you have nothing to say.


Web:

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/communic.html
http://www.natcom.org/
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/


Future Studies

Future studies is concerned with making projections regarding the near and distant future. Most businesses and governments project no more than 5 years into the future. Futurists -- people who specialize in future studies -- consider such plans to be near-term projections; long-term projections reach out over 50 years. Future studies is highly interdisciplinary in that it concerns itself with population, natural resources, science, technology, globalization, government, and international conflict.


Web:

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usassi/
http://www.coatesandjarratt.com/resources.htm
http://www.csudh.edu/global_options/introfstopics.html
http://www.forecastcenter.com/
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/globaltrends2015/
http://www.rff.org/library/index.htm
http://www.wfs.org/
http://www.wfsf.org/


Generation X

The term "Generation X" refers to the post-Baby Boomer Americans born between 1961 and 1981. (The name came from a book by Douglas Coupland.) Before they were named, nobody talked much about the Gen Xers. Now just about everyone has something to say.


Web:

http://www.babybusters.org/
http://www.cyberg8t.com/coolink/genx.html

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Humanities Resources

Traditionally, the humanities referred to the study of Greek and Latin (language and literature). Today, the term is used more generally, to refer to the disciplines devoted to the study of human thought and culture, in particular, history, philosophy, literature, archaeology, languages and the fine arts. Some people consider that the humanities also embrace some of the social sciences, such as sociology, anthropology and psychology.


Web:

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/
http://www.uky.edu/subject/humanities.html
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/

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Leisure Studies

Leisure studies -- often combined with recreation studies -- is the examination of how people spend their leisure time. This is a huge discipline involving many different areas of study such as tourism, sports, outdoor recreation, parks and other public facilities, stress reduction, exercise, resource allocation, and so on. Rest assured, no matter what you do for fun, someone, somewhere, is studying it. If you are a leisure studies student or researcher, the Net has lots of resources to help you. In fact, using the Net to find the information you need will save you so much time, you won't know what to do with it all.


Web:

http://www.staff.vu.edu.au/lswp/

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Perseus Project

The Perseus Project contains a vast collection of information relating to art objects, archaeological sites and buildings, vases, coins, and sculptures, including well over 10,000 pictures. My favorite part is the collection of ancient coins -- information as well as pictures -- because I like to collect coins myself. This is a great site for serious researchers. You'll find information on all these artifacts, gathered from museums around the world, which is collected and organized into a large, well-organized library.


Web:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/


Popular Culture

Popular culture is all around us -- all you have to do is open wide and absorb. And popular culture is so accessible. You don't have to study, learn strange terminology, or hang around with eggheads who talk about things you don't understand. Just turn on the TV, listen to the radio, go to the stadium, and pick up a magazine. Of course, popular culture is more than culture, it's popular -- which means there's a lot of it and it disappears quickly, like the hot breath of reality on the razor blade of life. What's in vogue today is on the list of things-no-one-remembers tomorrow, so don't get lost looking for your past. Use the Net and stay abreast of all that used to be cool, desirable and popular.


Web:

http://www.popculturejunkmail.com/
http://www.pophistorynow.com/
http://www.sixtiespop.com/
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/POP-Culture.ht...
http://www.yesterdayland.com/


Population Studies

Population studies is the area of the social sciences dealing with such topics as population, demographics, ethnicity, migration, nuptiality (marriage), fertility, mortality, social mobility and distribution of wealth. Because of the heterogeneous nature of its subject matter, population studies is multi-disciplinary, drawing on a variety of sciences and social sciences.


Web:

http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/
http://popindex.princeton.edu/
http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/library/resources.html


Social Science Resources

There are so many social science resources on the Net it's hard to know where to start, so I'll tell you: start here. Just visit these Web sites, select an area of study, and before you can say "This work was done in partial fulfillment of a Ph.D. thesis," you will be up to your cerebrum in enough information to please even the most demanding principal investigator.


Web:

http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?liberal
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/
http://www.vlib.org/SocialSciences.html


Social Work

During the Great Depression, the United States government, along with private, state and local social organizations, began to help people who were in need of some type of assistance. This evolved into today's large network of people and agencies devoted to helping individuals and families who are facing poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and other physical, mental and social problems.


Web:

http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/websites.html
http://www.clinicalsocialwork.com/
http://www.sc.edu/swan/


Sociology Resources

Sociology is the study of how people behave in groups. Modern sociology began in 1748, when the French intellectual Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) wrote a book entitled "The Spirit of the Laws". In this book, Montesquieu introduced the revolutionary idea that history could be interpreted as the interrelationship of a number of social forces, including religion, politics, government and economics. (Montesquieu is also well-known for having had great influence on the ideas embodied in the U.S. Constitution.) The term "sociology" was created in 1838 by the French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857), whose writings had a significant influence on 19th- and 20th-Century thinking. (He was the founder of the school of positivism.) As a social reformer, Comte published "The Course of Positive Philosophy (1830-1842), in which he explained that the study and application of "sociology" could provide us with the tools to create a society in which people and nations would coexist peacefully amid a state of general contentment. (Compare this to the goal of the "Introduction to Sociology" course that you took in college.)


Web:

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/timeline.html
http://www.lib.vt.edu/subjects/soci/
http://www.sociolog.com/


Sociology Talk and General Discussion

We've all heard the rumors -- that sociology is one of those fluffy topics that people are required to take in college. Well, I am here to tell you that it's not so. Get into the hard-core science of sociology, and talk down and dirty with people who know their people.


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U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities

The United States National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is a United States government agency that offers grants for projects in history, philosophy, languages and other areas of the humanities. If you are a humanities scholar, take a look at the NEH's Web site, where you can learn about the NEH and its grants, and find out how to apply for a grant of your own. Every year, the NEH awards millions of dollars. There is no reason why some of this money shouldn't be supporting your research.


Web:

http://www.neh.fed.us/


Voice of the Shuttle

It's 2 AM and you are watching Star Trek with your best friend, when all of a sudden the need arises to check something at the Klingon Language Institute. Go to the Voice of the Shuttle, a huge collection of links and resources for students and researchers in the humanities. From Anthropology to Women's Studies, you'll find it here.


Web:

http://vos.ucsb.edu/