The African Studies Association (ASA) was founded in 1957 as a nonprofit
organization open to all individuals and institutions interested in African
affairs. Its mission is to bring together people with a scholarly and professional
interest in Africa. The ASA also provides useful services to the Africanist
community. Currently four periodicals and several occasional publications
are produced annually. With 3,000 individual and 600 institutional members,
the Association is the leading North American organization which promotes
African Studies.
The purpose of the ASAA shall be to facilitate communication and fellowship
between persons with either affiliation or interest in the Anabaptist tradition
and its contemporary heirs, and whose work involves application of sociological
or anthropological perspectives. Membership is open to anyone interested.
Objectives: to establish a network to link sociological associations, sociology
departments and individual sociologists in the Asia Pacific region; to
provide information and contacts using such means as the internet and newsletters;
to act as a clearing house for co-operation in teaching, research and other
professional activities; to promote and assist the publication of social
research focussing upon the region; to encourage co-operation between sociologists,
planners and policy makers at both the regional and community level; to
hold regular regional conferences, seminars and workshops.
The Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) is the only national organization
exclusively dedicated to the promotion of research, teaching and publications
on Canada. Founded in 1973 at Queen's University, Kingston, the ACS is
a non-profit organization with individual and institutional members.
Founded in 1976, the AHS emerged from our realization that conventional
mainstream sociology was unresponsive to people, their needs, concerns
and values. We came together not out of shared politics or similar "schools"
of sociology, but out of a common concern for the real life problems of
equality, peace and social justice. We share a commitment to address all
facets of the human condition in our scholarship and in our practice, and
to make sociology more relevant to human needs.
CSA's inauguration was in October 1990 at the first annual meeting in Carson,
California. The association grew out of the belief that California needed
its own organization for some reasons: California is increasingly diverse,
more than most of the rest of the nation. It is often seen as a bellwether
state, and we as sociologists seek opportunities to exchange ideas on ways
of studying, teaching, and learning about this dynamic milieu.
Center for Applied Social Surveys (CASS) is an Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) Resource Centre run jointly by the Social and Community
Planning Research (SCPR) and the University of Southampton, with the University
of Surrey. It provides short courses in survey methods and is developing
a survey Question Bank for use by social scientists and social researchers
in the academic world, government, market research and the independent
and voluntary sectors.
SocInfo, the CTI Centre for Sociology, Politics and Social Policy is sited
at the University of Stirling, is one of twenty-four subject based Centres
funded, in principle, until 1999, under a joint programme by the Higher
Education Funding Councils of England (HEFCE), Scotland (SHEFC), Wales
(HEFCW) and Northern Ireland (DENI).
The main aims of ECERS are the following: to perform research of interethnic
relations, regionalism and specific sociological issues, especially from
the point of view of recent political changes in Central and Eastern Europe;
to study the activities of European international organizations and institutions
and non-governmental organizations regarding human rights, protection of
minorities and regionalism; to convene international scientific conferences;
to publish scientific publications.
The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations exists to
promote the scientific study of migration (including asylum seekers), racism
and ethnicity, to support relevant research training,
to disseminate information and promote communication between researchers.
GESIS is an infrastructural association which supplies fundamental social
science services on a national and international level, both in terms of
theory and practice. GESIS consists of the institutes IZ, ZA, ZUMA, and
keeps a branch office in Berlin. It is an institution of "Wissenschaftgemeinschaft
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz" (WGL). GESIS maintains multiple national as
well as international co-operations.
The Institute of Sociology carries out fundamental and applied research,
consulting and expert activities, application of scientific results, training
of highly-qualified specialists as well as other activities under the Law
on the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
International Sociological Association (ISA), a non-profit association
for scientific purposes. The ISA was founded in 1949 under the auspices
of UNESCO. The goal of the Association, as stated in the Statutes, is to
represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought,
scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological
knowledge throughout the world.
Home Page is established as a service to the community of scholars and
practitioners who wish to explore ideas and information on subjects such
as: documentary film, documentary photography, documentary video, photo-elicitation,
photo-journalism, visuals in the media, visual anthropology, visual art,
visual communication, visual education, visual history, visual literacy,
visual meaning, visual methods, and visual sociology.
The Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology (JAMS), founded in
1986, aims at contributing to the development of sociology and the related
disciplines, through advancing mathematical, quantitative, and theoretical
sociology.
The Northern Australia Social Research Institute ( NASRI) is a research
institute comprising four affiliated Social Research Centres located at
Townsville, Rockhampton, Darwin and Port Hedland. NASRI provides a collaborative
mechanism for conducting, promoting, coordinating and disseminating research
into social policy and social development issues affecting Northern Australia.
In addition to its function as a library and document collection open to
the public, and its regular editing and publishing projects like the Japan
Labour Yearbook and the Historical Documents of the Japanese Social Movement,
it also conducts research and surveys.
The Pacific Sociological Association was established in 1929. The PSA is
the professional association of sociologists for the western region of
the United States and Canada.
The Rural Development Centre is an independent non-profit research
organisation established on the campus of the University of New
England in 1976. With seven professional staff, the Centre undertakes
applied socio-economic research with a rural focus.
The objective of the Rural Sociological Society is to promote the study
of rural life through research, extension and education; for the purpose
of confronting problems, answering questions, increasing opportunities
and thereby, improving the quality of life in rural areas.
SCPR is an independent research institute. It conducts social surveys among
members of the public to provide information on social policy issues in
Britain. These studies are published in the form of reports or books. Funders
include government departments, local authorities, research councils and
universities.
Tarki's databank stores not just results of our own investigations, but
files submitted by member or foreign institutions. Some of them are free
to analyse.
The Social Science Computing Association (SSCA) exists to promote the development
of computing within the social sciences through organized activities and
the interchange of ideas, data, teaching materials, experiences, research
results, and other resources.
The Society for Applied Sociology, founded in 1978, is an international
organization for professionals involved in applying sociological knowledge
in a wide variety of settings.
Since its founding in 1953, Sociological Abstracts, Inc. (SAI) has played
a pivotal role in disseminating the worldwide literature of sociology and
the related social sciences. This Web site has been designed to inform
about SAI's products and services, and the disciplines they cover. SAI
publishes print and electronic products in sociology, sociological practice,
and linguistics and language research.
The Sociological Association of Aotearoa (New Zealand) speaks for, supports
and advances the interests of sociologists in this country and encourages
the development and dissemination of sociological knowledge, understanding
and insight.
Sociologists of Minnesota (SOM) is a professional association whose mission
is to promote and develop understanding of sociology and sociological practice
in the state of Minnesota.
The Sociology of Education Association is an informal group of scholars
and educators from both the fields of sociology and of education, who meet
annually to engage in discussion of issues at the intersection of sociology
and education.
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