Web Links

Verstehen: Max Weber's Home Page:
(http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm#Social)

A comprehensive website designed by Frank Elwell at the Rogers State University. This site provides a description of all of Weber's key concepts, as well as real-life examples and pictures illustrating each. This includes a discussion of the concept of social action.

Georg Simmel On-line
(http://socio.ch/sim/index_sim.htm)

An extensive website maintained by "Sociology in Switzerland." Much of the page is written in German, although there are English biographical materials, and translations of five of Simmel's most important essays.

The Mead Project: Foundational Documents in Sociological Social Psychology
(http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/%7Elward/)

A website maintained by Lloyd Gordon Ward and Robert Throop at Brock University. This site is devoted to providing on-line access to Mead's original publications. The site includes links to 116 of Mead's published articles, and links to 78 unpublished articles. It also provides timelines of Mead's life and career, as well as extensive materials on Dewey, James, Baldwin, Cooley, Thomas, Veblen, and Sapir.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: George Herbert Mead
(http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/mead.htm)

This on-line encyclopedia entry, authored by George Cronk, describes Mead's significance for philosophy, sociology, and psychology. The site includes descriptions of Mead's life and writings, as well as summaries of his theoretical work on society, self, temporality, perception, and history.

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI)
(http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~sssi/)

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction is an international professional organization of social science researchers interested in qualitative, especially interactionist, research. The site provides information on upcoming meetings, professional resources, teaching materials, and reading lists of relevance to symbolic interactionist study.

The Pragmatism Cybrary: The Chicago School
(http://www.pragmatism.org/genealogy/Chicago.htm)

This website is part of a larger project that explores the heritage of pragmatic philosophy, as well as its relationship to social theory. In particular, the section on the Chicago School places George Herbert Mead's work in its pragmatic context and provides links to social activists and philosophers who worked alongside and influenced Mead. The site also contains a section where it describes Mead's connection to Thomas and Park.

Talcott Parsons: Excerpt from The Structure of Social Action
(http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/parsons.htm)

This selection from Parsons's The Structure of Social Action is listed under the "Marxist's Internet Archive." The excerpt is from the introductory section of Parsons's book, and provides a description of the problem of social action, the method that Parsons adopts to investigate social action, and the theoretical issues involved in this investigation.

Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
(http://www.phenomenologycenter.org/)

The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology was founded in 1971. The Center collects and preserves the writings of phenomenologists, especially those who have worked in North America. This webpage provides descriptions of phenomenology, links to phenomenological websites, resources for scholars interested in phenomenology, as well as material on upcoming conferences and meetings. The site also includes material on Alfred Schutz.

Phenomenology On-Line
(http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/po/main.cfm)

This site has been developed and maintained by Max van Manen at the University of Alberta. It provides an extensive overview of phenomenology across all of the human and social sciences. The site includes discussion forums, maps of phenomenology's intellectual history, descriptions of important phenomenological scholars, and a glossary of important phenomenological terms.

Qualitative Methods Workbook
(http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/qualmeth.html)

An on-line workbook designed by C. George Boeree to develop and enhance qualitative research skills. The website provides illustrations, examples, and exercises to help train qualitative researchers. Boeree takes a phenomenological approach, although sections on participant observation and interviewing are very relevant for symbolic interactionist research.

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