International and National Organisations

• World Health Organisation (Switzerland)

Research Centres and Projects

• Queen's University Belfast Social and Cultural Research Group: This website is not very informative as it is currently under construction. Presently holds information on meetings, commitee members and a newsletter. (UK)
• The Institute of Social Research (UK)
 
• Sociology of the Environment Research Group: Previous projects include an assessment of the social impacts of a proposed road scheme, a post-impact assessment of a road scheme, an environmental and social life-cycle assessment of coal and waste as fuels and an assessment of the impacts and planning procedures for new chemical waste incinerators.
• Ethnicity, Culture and Values Research Group: Research topics include sociological approaches to race, ethnicity and nationalism, the structure of colonial and postcolonial societies and the role of religion and religious values in contemporary societies.
• University of Bath (UK)
 
• Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy: Studying the impact of economic, social and political change on the Welfare State.
• European Research Institute: Brings together European research under way within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Management, linking together the networks they have developed with other European research centres.
• Science studies Centre: Exists to further research and training in the social and historical study of science and technology with particular reference to cultural change.

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Institute for Social and Economic Geography: Research areas include social geography, urban geography, rural geography and population geography. A listing of research projects is also available. (Belgium)

• University of Texas, Virtual Geography Department Space, Place and Culture (US)
 
• Sexuality and Space Specialty Group of the AAG: Research facilitating geographic inquiry into human sexuality.
• Geography of Religions and Belief Systems Specialty Group of the AAG: Studying religious phenomena including behaviour, material culture and human-environment relations.

Data/Information Libraries

• Norwegian Social Science Data Services: Details data held and the various types of data relevant to society, including regional data, individual level data and data on the political system. Also provides information on research projects and higher education, research and the protection of privacy and statistical programmes. (Norway)

• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936 - 1940: Provides a valuable source of qualitative data. Search or browse the collection of manuscripts and other media. (US)
• Australia's Cultural Network: Provides details of Australia's cultural organisations, resources, activities and events. (Australia)
• Current Population Survey; Race and Ethnicity: Evaluates questions on race and ethnicity and compares the results with answers from CPS questions that are routinely collected during the first month, face-to-face interview. Addresses the effect of having a multiracial category among the list of races; the effect of adding "Hispanic" to the list of racial categories; and the preferences for alternative names for racial and ethnic categories. (US)
• University of California Social Science Data: Holds a comprehensive listing of online numeric data resources, which is searchable; also provides a list of special data products. (US)
• World Thematic Map Display: Create informative atlas maps using thematic data available at this site. Creates maps using thematic data of various topics, including physical, political, cultural, demographic and socio-economic characteristics. Direct access is available to the data types listed above. (US)

Education Materials/Courses

• Dale Lightfoot Virtual Cultural Geography Lesson (US)
 
• Folk Customs from Around the World: Comprehensive photo gallery illustrating how social customs such as the provision of clothing, shelter, transportation and food have evolved differently in different areas of the world because of a variety of natural resources.
• Popular Culture As Global Culture: A series of photographs looking at popular customs, which are based on global interactions and modern technology, and are most often a product of economically developed countries.
• Steven Mintz The Making of Ethnic America: Comprehensive series of 57 slides detailing race, slavery and ethnicity. There are some excellent definitions of ethnicity, minority and enthnocentrism. (US)
• University of Manitoba Kinship and Social Organization: An interactive tutorial incorporating kinship fundamentals, kinship terminology and marriage systems. ( Canada)
• University of Maryland Diversity Dictionary: An informative guide to specific uses of terms used within the diversity community. (US)
• University of Wisconsin Cultural Landscapes of North America (US)
 
• Critical Cultural Landscapes: Lecture notes providing a discussion of several explanatory frameworks including conservative and liberal theories as well as the socio-spatial dialectical approach.
• Culture, Place, and Landscape Concepts: Lecture notes holding definitions of culture, elements of culture, cultural geography and cultural landscapes.
• Intentional Communities: Informative essay discussing "Intentional Communities", communities explicitly seeking to establish ideals different from those of the society around them.
• Geography of Racism: Defines various terms for racial minorities and what they actually call themselves.
• Social Geography of Chicago: Includes maps of various regions in Chicago. Provides information on the changing pattern of social group residency.
• Placeless Geography: Discusses the problem of "Placelessness", when cultural landscapes begin to look alike.
• Geography of Fantasy: Discusses experiences of "landscapes of fantasies", where places become larger in you mind than in reality.
• World Bank, Development Education programme Social Sector; Population Growth Rate: Learning module discussing many aspects of population growth globally, how growth effects a country and economic and environmental impacts. (US)

Electronic Journals

• Surrey University Sociological Research On-line: Volumes one, two and three are freely available online in full text format. Article submission details and an article search facility are also available. (UK)

• Journal of Cultural Geography: Site provides information about articles published in the current issue of Cultural Geography, full text versions require subscription. (US)