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Narratives of Liver Transplantation: Recipient Perspectives on the Quality of Life An exploratory study into individual perceptions of end-stage liver disease and liver transplant with a special focus on Quality of Life concepts, including interviews with liver transplant recipients. Concludes that quality of life is best measured with respect to social norms. An Essay on Radical Labor Education A paper by Michael Yates, a labor educator, tracing the history of radical labor education suggesting that the time for renewal may be at hand. Budgetary Decision-Making and Mechanisms of Evolution An article by Edmund Chattoe and Prof. Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, describing an inductively designed simulation of individual budgetary decision making. Cultural Selection A collection of papers by Agner Fog on "cultural selection" including how it differs to sociology. Sample chapters from the book, Cultural Selection, are also linked. About Gender A wide-ranging resource of essays and articles published by the Derby TV/TS Group (UK) discussing the manifold interpretations of gender. Articles/essays are categories by perspective and are added regularly. Peculiarities of Cyberspace: Building Blocks for an Internet Sociology A resource of essays and articles discussing a range of social phenomena arising from the increased use of ICT and the internet in social life. These are argued to form the beginning of a new sub-discipline, cyber-sociology, or netsociology, by Albert Benschop (University of Amsterdam). Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion The first interim report (literature review) delivered to the European Commission representing a "state of the art" review of all aspects of work, especially change, in the Information Society in Europe in 1999. Reports Made by 'The Global Social Change Research Project' A resource of reports showing recent social, demographic, political and communication technology changes in the world as a whole and for developed and less developed sections. |
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