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Social Sciences News

News and journal articles and abstracts about the Social Sciences.

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Anthropology in the News
http://anthropology.tamu.edu/news.htm
Links to free news stories published on the web, in suject areas such as archaeology, bioanthropology, lingustics, and social and cultural history. Includes links to video news reports.
Intute: Social Sciences Blog
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/blog/
Intute: Social Sciences maintains a blog regarding research resources for the Social Sciences. Blog content can be filtered by social science content area, and RSS feeds are available aplenty.
Migration Dialogue
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/index.php
This site has a wealth of information on migration; while the focus is on Mexican migration to the U.S., there is data and discussion of migration issues worldwide. Besides migration and rural migration news, a segment called "changing face" assesses "the prospects for migrants and their children arriving in rural America." There are also links to further research and seminars on the subject.
Moving Ideas Network: The Electronic Policy Network
http://www.movingideas.org/
"Connecting You to the Progressive Community". This site features policy-related news and commentaries in economics, politics, education, health policy, and media (both traditional and the Internet).
Research Resources for the Social Sciences
http://www.socsciresearch.com/
This is a research hub that lists internet resources for the social sciences. Psychology, anthropology, and women's studies are among the included subjects. The news and journalism link has an extensive collection of sites, and the reference resources collection contain a variety of general social sciences research links.
SciTech Daily Review
http://www.scitechdaily.com/
Provides brief abstracts and links to science, technology, and social sciences news articles from magazines, newspapers, and science Web sites. Updated daily.
Topix.net: Activism News
http://www.topix.net/news/activism
This site is a continuously updated collection of activism-related news stories from across the web. Topix.net uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to sort incoming news stories from thousands of internet sources into various categories.

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