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| AQ Community Fellows |
| AQ Community Fellows are first-year college students with a major or interest in majoring in one of the social sciences. Fellows are either first-generation college students* or Pell Grant eligible. The goal of the fellowship is encouraging students to engage in their education, their campus, and their community. >>More Information |
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| Professional Sociology |
| http://www.asanet.org/ |
| The American Sociological Association (ASA) is the official national voice of sociology in the United States. With members nationwide, it publishes research, holds annual meetings where sociologists report their latest findings, and supports the discipline in a variety of ways. |
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| http://www.themss.org/ |
| The Midwest Sociological Society is a regional sociological organization that includes sociologists from Minnesota to Michigan . |
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| http://members.tm.net/aghill/msa/msa.html |
| The Michigan Sociological Association. |
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| Sociological Theory |
| http://www.asatheory.org/ |
| The homepage of the Theory section of the ASA. Its Links page contains links to the original works of classical and contemporary sociological theorists. We have chosen some and included them below. |
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| Karl Marx: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/ |
| The Marx-Engels Internet Archive contains original works, a biographical timeline and pictures of one of the most significant sociological theorists. Also see: http://eserver.org/marx/ and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/ |
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| Emile Durkheim: http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim/ |
| The Durkheim Pages contain original works and other information on one of the principal founders of the discipline. The Emile Durkheim archive also contains helpful information: http://durkheim.itgo.com/main.html and http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/durkheim/durk.htm |
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| Max Weber: http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm |
| Max Weber's Home Page contains original works as well as explanations of major concepts of this seminal sociologist. Also see: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/weber_texts.html, Verstehen |
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| General Research Aids |
| http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/fedloc.html |
| Bookmark this link to the Federal Web Locator. It contains links to every branch and agency in government, from the Health and Human Services to the Census Bureau, as well as non and semi governmental agencies such as Congressional Budget Office and World Bank. |
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| Inequalities |
| Class and Economic |
| http://www.cbpp.org/ |
| The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities not only examines budgetary issues, but issues of income, housing, and public assistance. |
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| http://www.ctj.org/ |
| Citizens for Tax Justice looks at the inequities in the tax systems of the federal and state governments. |
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| http://www.corpwatch.org/ |
| As the name implies, this site looks at how the actions of corporations contribute to inequality. |
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| http://www.epinet.org/ |
| The Economic Policy Institute examines issues of income and wealth, poverty and economic inequality. They research the basic needs of families and provide a site to calculate basic needs for various family types ( http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/datazone_fambud_budget) . |
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| http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ |
| As the title implies, this newsletter looks at economic issues of budget, trade, social security from a left, or progressive, point of view. |
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| http://www.dollarsandsense.org/ |
| More than 25 years and 240 issues after its founding, Dollars & Sense continues to meet the need for "left perspectives on current economic affairs," as our masthead proclaims. We print articles by journalists, activists, and scholars on a broad range of topics with an economic theme: the economy, housing, labor, government regulation , unemployment, the environment, urban conflict, and activism. |
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| Gender |
| http://www.iwpr.org/ |
| The Institute for Women's Policy Research researches issues of women's inequality, work and political status, including the Status of Women in the States web page. |
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| http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html |
| The Women's Sports Foundation looks at athletic issues concerning girls and women, especially issues surrounding Title IX. |
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| http://www.about-face.org/ |
| About-Face promotes positive self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism. |
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| Media |
| The following are general sites for media review |
| http://www.FactCheck.org |
| A nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. This group monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads and news releases. The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. |
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| http://www.cjr.org/ |
| Columbia Journalism Review is the publication produced by the Columbia School of Journalism. |
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| http://mediamatters.org/ |
| a new Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media |
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| http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm |
| Part of the Nieman Foudation for Journalism at Harvard University, the Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project grows from.this goal: to help the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today's news. |
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| http://dailyhowler.com/dh080604.shtml |
| This site points out some of the outrageous statements made by those on the political right. |
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| http://www.prwatch.org/ |
| This is the site of the organization PR Watch, which looks at the activities of the public relations industry, which has great influence and input in media presentations. |
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| http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Disinfopedia |
| A collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy, home of PR Watch. |
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| http://www.fair.org/ |
| This is the web site of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog group that analyzes press coverage of issues by the major media. |
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| News and Commentary |
| http://www.alternet.org/ |
| This is a sort of Reader's Digest of progressive politics. It contains news and opinion from a variety of sources. |
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| http://www.commercialalert.org/ |
| Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy. |
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| http://www.adbusters.org/home/ |
| This site is dedicated to anti-materialism. Much of its focus is on spoofing advertisements. |
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| http://www.airamericaradio.com/ |
| This is a fledging effort at progressive radio. It is aired on only a half dozen or so stations, but is streamed on the web. |
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| http://www.counterpunch.org/ |
| CounterPunch is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints. |
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| http://www.thenation.com |
| The Nation "will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred." -- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865 |
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| http://www.progressive.org/ |
| The mission of The Progressive is to be a journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad. The magazine, its affiliates, and its staff steadfastly oppose militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, the disenfranchisement of the citizenry, poverty, and prejudice in all its guises. |
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| http://www.motherjones.com/ |
| Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting. |
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| http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx |
| Slate is a product of MSN (Microsoft Network) and has an eclectic array of news. |
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| http://www.npr.org/ |
| National Public Radio, contains archived programs of past shows. |
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| http://www.pbs.org/ |
| Public Broadcasting Service. |
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| http://c-span.org/ |
| C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Our mission is to provide public access to the political process. |
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| http://www.kpfk.org |
| The site of KPFK 90.7FM, Los Angeles, where the program Free Forum is streamed. |
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| Blogs |
| http://www.buzzmachine.com/ |
| This site has a sidebar called B-roll, which lists dozens of other weblogs. |
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| http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ |
| This is the blog of Josh Marshall |
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| http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3 |
| The blog of David Corn, columnist of The Nation magazine. |
