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Blogroll
- BodySpaceSociety
Bodyspacesociety offers regular updates about my ongoing research, publications, and teaching. - Centro Studi Etnografia Digitale
Il Centro Studi di Etnografia Digitale è un’organizzazione no-profit finalizzata alla ricerca che riunisce sociologi, marketer ed esperti del Web. - Délinquance, justice et autres questions de société
Intitulé « Délinquance, justice et autres questions de société », ce site ambitionne de couvrir un assez large éventail de sujets. - Digital Social Research
The ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science was set up to develop and promote the use of e-Science to benefit social science research. - EC – Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
Commissione europea. Occupazione, affari sociali e inclusione - Et voilà le travail
Amour, trahison, démission. Comment l’humain vit-il son travail aujourd’hui ? Un blog journalistique pour tenter l’enquête. - Eurofound
Eurofound – a tripartite EU agency – provides expertise on living and working conditions, industrial relations and managing change in Europe - European Sociological Review
European Sociological Review contains articles in all fields of sociology ranging in length from short research notes up to major reports. - Everyday Sociology Blog
site that features interesting, informative, and most of all entertaining commentary from sociologists around the United States. - Graphic Sociology
Analyzing the visual presentation of social data. Each post, Laura Norén takes a chart, table, interactive graphic or other display of sociologically relevant data and evaluates the success of the graphic. - Impact of Social Sciences
At the London School of Economics and Social Sciences. Maximizing the impact of academic research. - London School of Economics Review of Books
daily academic book reviews from the social sciences - MIT Center for Civic Media
The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices. We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political actio - Monitoring and Evaluation
A news service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation methods relevant to development programmes with social development objectives. Managed by Rick Davies, since 1997 - orgtheory.net
“…the science of association is the mother science; the progress of all the others depends on the progress of that one.” Alexis de Tocqueville - Possible Futures
A collaborative effort to deepen our knowledge of current crises and future possibilities, Possible Futures is produced by the Social Science Research Council, in conjunction with an SSRC book series published by NYU Press. - Social Science Research Council
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, nonprofit international organization founded in 1923. - socialsciencespace
Socialsciencespace brings social scientists together to explore, share and shape the big issues in social science, from funding to impact. This online social network features blogs with the most current thinking from key players in social science, a forum - Socio-Voce
L’ambition de Socio-Voce est d’offrir une invitation à la sociologie. Son credo se résume assez bien par cette citation de Peter Berger dans Invitation à la sociologie (1963) : ” La sociologie ne satisfera durablement que ceux qui ne trouvent rien de pl - Sociologia Now
Magazine de Actualidad Sociológica - Sociospunti
Spuntini di sociologia - The Global Sociology Blog
- The Sociological Imagination
“Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues.” – C. Wright Mills - UnderstandingSociety
This site addresses a series of topics in the philosophy of social science. What is involved in “understanding society”? The blog is an experiment in thinking, one idea at a time. Look at it as a web-based, dynamic monograph on the philosophy of social sc
Data
- Eurostat
Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. Its main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods acr - Gapminder
Fighting devastating ignorance with fact-based worldviews everyone can understand. Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Developme - Il Sole 24 Ore – OpenDataBlog
Il data-blog del Sole24Ore - Istat
Le banche dati dell’Istat - OECD Statistics
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. - Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social scienc - The Economist – Graphic detail Charts, maps and infographics
A new chart or map every working day, interactive-data features and links to interesting sources of data around the web - The Guardian – Datablog
Facts are sacred
Sociolologist
Anthony Giddens
He is currently a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He was made a Life Peer in May 2004. He has honorary degrees from 15 universities. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth (born July 18, 1949) is a professor of philosophy at both the University of Frankfurt and Columbia University. He is also director of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main
Brian Martin
Brian Martin is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour is professor at Sciences Po and director of the TARDE program (Theory of Actor-Network and Digital Environments)
David Harvey
David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), Director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and author of numerous books.
Gosta Esping-Andersen
Gosta Esping-Andersen is professor of Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra where he directs the DEMOSOC research unit. In 2009 he was nominated ICREA-Academia professor.
Loïc Wacquant
Loïc Wacquant is a professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Institute for Legal Research, Boalt Law School, University of California at Berkeley, where he is affiliated with the Global Metropolitan Studies Program, the Program in Medical Anthr
Manuel Castells
s a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society, communication and globalization. The 2000–09 research survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index ranks him as the world’s fifth most-cited social science scholar, a
Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts — about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experienc
Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University | Co-Chair Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck is Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich, and has been the British Journal of Sociology LSE Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology since 1997.
Zygmunt Bauman
Established in honour of Leeds’ Emeritus Professor, Zygmunt Bauman, the Bauman Institute is a new international research and teaching centre dedicated to addressing key social problems that affect rapidly changing societies across the globe.
