cOUNTER fLOW: Social Science

Vancouver Participatory Economics Collective

2006-02-02T09:18:17-08:00

http://vanparecon.resist.ca/

What is Parecon? Unlike other economic systems, parecon is designed to promote self-management, solidarity, diversity, and equity. This is done through true democracy in the workplace and a unique democratic participatory allocation system.

Parecon

2006-02-02T09:07:19-08:00

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6663§ionID=26

"What alternative form of social organization can be imagined that might overcome the grave flaws -- often real crimes -- of contemporary society in more far-reaching ways than short-term reform. Parecon is the most serious effort I know to provide a very detailed possible answer to some of these questions, crucial ones, based on serious thought and careful analysis." ~Noam Chomsky

Symbols.com

2005-12-30T14:30:20-08:00

http://www.symbols.com/

Online Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms: Symbols.com contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.

Critical Acclaim

2005-09-05T12:40:34-08:00

http://www.criticalacclaim.com

A topsites list featuring popular politically progressive pages and sites in categories such as blogs, resources, thinkers, texts & media, history and much more.

Sights unseen

2005-08-06T13:56:31-08:00

http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/blindness.html

Research on a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness suggests that unless we pay close attention, we can miss even the most conspicuous events.

Political Affairs

2005-07-31T15:08:36-08:00

http://www.politicalaffairs.net

A monthly magazine of ideology, politics, and culture. PA's mission is to go beyond simply giving an account of events to providing analysis and investigating what is new and changing in our world -- from a working-class point of view.

The Political Compass

2005-07-31T13:50:49-08:00

http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/index.php

Are you authoritarian or libertarian, communist or a neo-liberal conservative? Find out by taking the Political Compass test.

Adbusters

2005-07-24T08:01:06-08:00

http://www.adbusters.org

Brilliantly turns mass culture apparatus, particularly media and advertisting, into tools for dissent, while reflexively commenting on their subversive nature.

David Suzuki Foundation

2004-03-09T00:26:14-08:00

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

Among Canada's international dissident assets, David Suzuki is a geneticist with some political savvy, a nationally televised science program (The Nature of Things) and a penchant for stirring up debate on a variety of environmental and scientific issues before they become popular.

The Stanley Milgram Website

2004-02-23T18:17:41-08:00

http://www.stanleymilgram.com/main.html

Maintained by Thomas Blass, Milgram Experiment authority and author of The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram and Obedience to Authority: Current Perspectives on the Milgram Paradigm

The Milgram Experiment

2004-02-23T17:20:34-08:00

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

The Wikipedia entry for Stanley Milgram's famous (at least within social psychological circles) obedience and authority experiments.

The Milgram Experiment: a survey with charts

2004-02-23T17:03:03-08:00

http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/resource/milgramexperimenthandout.pdf

This is a rather large PDF document (>7MB) which includes some illustrations and several important data tables from the book, Obedience to Authoritiy. This is the infamous "shock" experiment in which participating subjects applied what they believed to be potentially lethal electrical shocks to blameless victims.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2004-02-23T16:45:38-08:00

http://www.prisonexp.org/

What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Dr. Philip Zimbardo's official Stanford Prison Experiment website features an extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment.

From Sing Sing to the Basement of Jordan

2004-02-23T16:41:03-08:00

http://psychology.about.com/library/weekly/aa060100a.htm

An awkwardly written but very informative description of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

The Stanford Prison Experiment: Still powerful after all these years

2004-02-23T16:28:59-08:00

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/relaged/970108prisonexp.html

A Stanford University News Service article primarily concerned with the circumstances leading up to the experiment being halted, and the scientific, ethical and personal ramifications.