Sociological Futures

 

10 is the new 15 as kids grow up faster

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15905527/

2010 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/cwp2010/default.htm

Alone sharks

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/738/

Anti-nuclear families reaction

http://www.economist.com/diversions/millennium/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=346995

Australian Social Trends, 2003

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/2f762f95845417aeca25706c00834efa/923ec292aba44932ca2570ec00006ee7!OpenDocument

Cheathouse

http://www.cheathouse.com/

Edward O. Wilson and The Future of Life

http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript1021.html

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Futures Working Group

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/td/fwg/workhome.htm

For many home broadband users, the internet is a primary news source

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_News.and.Broadband.pdf

Forecasting Crime

http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/wpapers/retrievePDF?id=1999-12

Forecasting Crime

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1280946.html?page=2

Future of Media Report - July 2006

http://www.futureexploration.net/fom06/Future_of_Media_Report2006.pdf

Future of Work Overview

http://www.worklife.govt.nz/PDFs/Fow-stocktake.PDF

Futuristic Five - Shopping Mall Trends

http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_futuristic_five/

Global Population at a Glance: 2002 and Beyond

http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/wp02-1.pdf

Hospitality 2010: Four "Mega-trends" to Shape Future Financial Success

http://www.sce.nyu.edu/about/article.jsp?artId=10152

How many people will choose to work longer?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5320750.stm

How to Live to 100

http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Dept/Content.aspx?DepartmentID=361&PageID=5900

Human Population: History, Status, Trends

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/events/2005/PowerPoint_Cohen.swf

Is someone trying to murder the 'Evening Standard'?

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20050306/ai_n11856224

Is TV violence all that bad for kids?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/hugh-mackay/is-tv-violence-all-that-bad-for-kids/2005/03/04/1109700674787.html

Labour shortages permanent by 2010

http://www.humanresourcesmagazine.com.au/articles/50/0c02cd50.asp

Life Caching

 

http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/LIFE_CACHING.htm

Local MySpace launch prompts net safety warning

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1714733.htm

Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing in an ageing world

http://www.helpage.org/Researchandpolicy/MadridInternationalPlanofActiononAgeing/MIPAAinanageingworld

Media - Timeline Index

http://www.timelineindex.com/content/select/476/912,396,476

Media Timeline: 1861-1900

http://www.ketupa.net/timeline2.htm

New Media Timeline (1969-2007)

http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75953&sid=26

Newspapers: Audience

http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/narrative_newspapers_audience.asp

Our Ageing World

http://www.spinneypress.com.au/191_book_desc.html

People evolving to be shorter & stouter

http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2010/01/people_evolving_to_be_shorter.php

Plagiarism and Academic Honesty in the Age of Technology

http://www.ric.edu/adamslibrary/resources/facultyresources/plagiarism.html

Plagiarism, Law and the Ubiquitous Web

http://www.tcnj.edu/~kaplan2/plagiarism.htm

Psychological Neoteny

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section3a.t-3.html?ex=1323406800&en=3f6e420bd17f81e6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Psychological neoteny and higher education: associations with delayed parenthood

http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/psychological-neoteny.html

Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319

RateMyProfessors.com

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp

Singleton society

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D3A7.htm

Social Trends 34 - a portrait of British society

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/sot0104.pdf

Solo living's eco threat

http://money.guardian.co.uk/ethicalmoney/story/0,,1834973,00.html

Speech by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_247.html

Student Plagiarism and Cheating in an IT Age

http://ecet.ecs.ru.acad.bg/cst05/Docs/cp/sIV/IV.8.pdf

Students using the net to cheat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3265143.stm

The Bottleneck

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000E5878-3E45-1CC6-B4A8809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2

The Future of Human Life Expectancy

http://www.prb.org/pdf06/NIA_FutureofLifeExpectancy.pdf

The Future of Newspapers

http://www.fastcompany.com/resources/innovation/watson/091806.html

The future of shopping

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3712261.stm

The Future of Work - Theodore Zeldin

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s11290.htm

The Future Of Work In A Changing World (Charles Handy)

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/8679.htm

The gap between men and women

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/15/1060871755569.html

The Geopolitics of World Population Change

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_progj/task,view/id,975/

The Geopolitics of World Population Change

http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_progj/task,view/id,975/

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Community:_How_Cuba_Survived_Peak_Oil

The rise of the 'childfree'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4813590.stm

The Trouble With Boys

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965522/site/newsweek/

The world in 2050: more crowded, urban and aged

http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862001000500020

Third of graduate women will be childless

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/22/ncareer22.xml

Tourism 2020 Vision

http://www.unwto.org/facts/eng/vision.htm

Turnitin

http://www.turnitin.com/static/company.html

US Singles: The New Nuclear Family

http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/us-singles-the-new-nuclear-family-490/

What's happening to the UK workforce?

http://www.efa.org.uk/age/facts.asp

Workplace Trends 2005

http://www.smallbiztrends.com/2005/01/workplace-trends-2005.html

World population (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

World Population in 2050: Assessing the Projections

http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/conf/conf46/conf46d1.pdf

World Population Prospects - The 2002 Revision - Highlights

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2002/WPP2002-HIGHLIGHTSrev1.PDF

World Population Statistics [sorted by Country]

http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/population_projections.htm

World Population to 2300

http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/3961/Joe_Chamie_Population_to_2300.pdf

World Population: Major Trends

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/Papers/gkh1/chap1.htm

World Press Trends: Advertising Rebounds, Circulation Down Slightly

http://www.wan-press.org/article4473.html

World Press Trends: Global Newspaper Circulation, Advertising On the Upswing

http://www.union-network.org/unigraphical.nsf/0/A84570F0B6CA045FC12572ED007AC701?OpenDocument

 

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