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	Institute for Social Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Institute for Social Research (German: Institut für Sozialforschung) is a research organization covering topics such as sociology and continental philosophy, best known as the institutional home of the Frankfurt School.
		The Institute was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1923, where it was (and as of 2005 once again is) affiliated with the University of Frankfurt am Main.
		The Institute re-opened in Frankfurt in the 1951 under the direction of Pollock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Institute_for_Social_Research (342 words)

	The Institute of Social Research Frankfurt/Main - History
		Within the latter the academy for social and commercial sciences founded at the beginning of the century continued to be active and the representative building built by the Jügelstiftung in 1907 became the centre of the university which opened in October 1914.
		On account of his research work he was appointed head of his own neurological institute at the beginning of the century within the Senckenberg Stiftung, which he incorporated into the new university as one of the eleven founding institutes with the proviso that it continued to be financed from donations.
		In quickly resuming its empirical social research the Institute, which as a private foundation was part of the university and also assigned with the sociology seminars within the philosophy faculty, also won the support of younger staff to combine students' societal-theoretical education with empirical training.
	www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de /english/history.htm (3743 words)

	Encyclopedia: Institute for Social Research
		Social research refers to research conducted by social scientists (primarily within sociology, but also within other disciplines such as social policy, human geography, social anthropology and education).
		Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies.
		Institut fuer Sozialforschung building File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Institute-for-Social-Research (993 words)

	Rhodes University
		The Institute of Social and Economic Research was founded in 1954 by the Rhodes University Council to pool the human and other resources of the social science departments at the university.
		The ISER was to provide planning and co-ordination for social research in the Eastern Cape and elsewhere in the Republic, and to train research workers of all races.
		The mission of the Institute of Social and Economic Research is to produce nationally and internationally reputable research which makes a positive contribution to the quality of life of the people of South Africa, and of the Eastern Cape, in particular.
	www.ru.ac.za /institutes/iser (309 words)

	Institute For Social Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		James Jackson, the director of the Universityâs Institute for Social Research, will be giving the keynote address at the symposium for underrepresented groups...
		During this early period, PRIO developed from a department within the Institute for Social Research, largely dependent on grants to individual researchers and...
		Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1923, where it was (and still is) affiliated with the University of Frankfurt am Main.
	www.wikiverse.org /institute-for-social-research (384 words)

	The Social Policy Research Institute
		The Social Policy Research Institute is dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability among corporate and government bodies through research and advocacy in order to further global democracy and the fair distribution of social opportunity.
		The Institute is involved in several long-term research projects in the areas of media ethics, occupational and environmental health, and the advancement of civil governance (i.e.
		The Social Policy Research Institute is financed primarily by endowments and grants from non-profit organizations and private individuals.
	www.tspri.org /about.html (240 words)

	The Heimlich Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In June 1998, The Heimlich Institute became a member of Deaconess Associations Inc., to help advance and promote the mission and vision of The Heimlich Institute in perpetuity.
		Now located on the campus of Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati, the Institute continues to conduct scientific, cultural and social research into issues of importance to the medical and scientific community, as well as addressing social concerns in the United States and abroad.
		Through The Heimlich Institute, Dr. Heimlich is researching new treatments for AIDS and cancer, and teaching the expanded use of the Heimlich Maneuver to save drowning victims, asthma sufferers and cystic fibrosis patients.
	www.heimlichinstitute.org (272 words)

	Institute of Social Research - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		ISR brings together a group of methodologists with research and teaching interests in the widest possible range of methods and resources for the conduct of empirical social research.
		ISR has interests and expertise in several of the contemporary Information Technology resources that support social research, and in the techniques of secondary analysis, both quantitative and qualitative.
		Members of the ISR have acted as expert advisors in these fields to the United Kingdom and overseas governments and research organisations, to domestic and overseas research councils and other sponsors of research, and to researchers engaged in substantive research.
	www.soc.surrey.ac.uk /isr.htm (337 words)

	Institute for Social Research (ISF): Welcome
		ISF researchers Karl Henrik Sivesind and Bernard Enjolras are participating in CINEFOGO, Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europea, a "Network of excellence" supported by the EUs 6.
		The Institute for Social Research (ISF) was established as an independent foundation in 1950.
		Senior researchers Aagoth Elise Storvik and Anne Krogstad are working on a research project comparing leaders in politics and state bureaucracy in Norway and France.
	www.samfunnsforskning.no /page/Front_page/Meny_knapper/7975/21270.html (329 words)

	About SRI
		NHN is a practicum site for undergraduate and graduate students in the social work program as well as students working on their certificate in Gerontology from the College of Nursing.
		Social workers must join together in meaningful interdisciplinary efforts to understand and meet the needs of an aging society.
		Their research and evaluation is also used to guide the executive, legislative, and judicial branches in formulating criminal and juvenile justice policy, expending scarce criminal and juvenile justice resources, and responding to the continued public concern about crime and the need to reduce victimization.
	www.socwk.utah.edu /sri (1543 words)

	Institute for Social Research
		There has been considerable media interest in the ISR’s research project Pacific Labour and Australian Horticulture, funded by the Australian Research Council, which is analysing the feasibility of bringing Pacific Islanders to the irrigated horticultural regions around the Victorian towns of Swan Hill and Mildura on the Murray River.
		Meanwhile, the project’s Pacific researcher Nic Maclellan has been conducting field research in Tonga and Fiji and has been invited to present a paper on the research to date at the forthcoming conference on Globalisation, Governance and the Pacific Islands at the ANU in Canberra.
		The ISR is one of the partners in the successful application to the Australian Research Council for funds to establish a Centre of Excellence in Cultural and Media Industries.
	www.sisr.net /welcome.htm (574 words)

	The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love
		The Institute is located at the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and has established itself as a center for scientific research on unselfish love for all humanity.
		His clinical research has focused on the catatonic syndrome and on the interface of psychiatry and medicine in cardiac and other diseases, where attachment behavior in the doctor-patient relationship is of key importance.
		Researching and testing for these and other effects is vital, as leading scholars have maintained, to the promotion of a more nuanced understanding of altruism and such kindred concepts as beneficence, social compassion, empathy, spirituality, volunteerism, generosity, and others.
	www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org /grant/index.html (14338 words)

	Institute for Social Research and Evaluation
		A greater understanding of the social issues of central British Columbia is key to the continued growth and development of the Prince George region.
		The Institute for Social Research and Evaluation (ISRE) is a research institute located at the University of Northern British Columbia dedicated to examining these issues.
		The primary research and training agenda of the Institute is to conduct two community-wide, social surveys annually, with a Spring survey covering general quality of life issues and a fall survey focused more specifically on special topics determined by the Institute's partners.
	web.unbc.ca /isre (254 words)

	Institute for Social Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1923 where it was (and is) affiliated with the University of Frankfurt am Main.
		Following a non-fatal heart attack Grünberg was in 1930 by Max Horkheimer who would rapidly become the guiding of an intellectual current that was born his directorship at the Institut the Frankfurt School editing its journal Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung for Social Research) and writing essays defining critical theory of society.
		In 1933 after the rise of Hitler the Institute left Germany for Geneva and then (in 1935) for New City where it became affiliated with Columbia University and where the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung Studies in Philosophy and Social Science.
	www.freeglossary.com /Institute_for_Social_Research (361 words)

	SURVEY RESEARCH AT ISR
		The Institute has obtained high response rates in mail surveys of physicians, lawyers, residents of housing projects, students, police officers and members of organizations.
		In a number of surveys, the Institute has increased final response rates, at limited cost, by using the telephone in a final effort to encourage respondents to return the questionnaire.
		The Institute uses focus group methodology in a variety of ways in applied social research projects.
	www.math.yorku.ca /ISR/survey.htm (631 words)

	Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), previously known as the East African Institute of Social Research, was established in 1948 and was mandated to carry out anthropological and other forms of social research.
		It conducts and coordinates basic and applied research; provides consultancy services to private, public and NGO sectors; undertakes networking with related institutions globally; develops and maintains a regional data bank and disseminates information.
		MISR, being a research arm of Makerere University, has a sizable specialized core staff and in addition enjoys a privilege of recruiting any faculty member in the University on any on-going research/consultancy project.
	www.uganda.co.ug /misr (163 words)

	Survey Research Center - University of Michigan
		The Survey Research Center is the largest of the four Centers of the Institute for Social Research (ISR).
		SRC and the Institute for Social Research are pillars of empirical social science, but seek to bring their empiricism to bear on problems that are of both social and scientific importance.
		The Survey Research Operations (SRO) is the operations branch of the Survey Research Center, providing a range of services in the areas of survey and statistical design, collection and processing of survey and other data, qualitative data collection, and data analysis.
	www.isr.umich.edu /src (348 words)

	Institute for Women's Policy Research
		This calculator follows the assumption that cuts in Social Security would be phased in, with deeper cuts in the guaranteed benefit for younger workers who would have a longer period of time to replace lost benefits through an individual account.
		Social Security currently covers only wages up to $76,200. That is, individuals are only taxed on earnings up to $76,200 (and only will only receive benefits based on earnings up to $76,200).
		Social Security benefits are based on the highest 35 years of taxable earnings and this calculator assumes that the user will work for exactly 35 years.
	www.iwpr.org /sscalc4/calculator.html (1875 words)

	Social Systems Research Institute at UW-Madison Department of Economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Institute was created in 1960 and provides research support to the Faculty in the Economics Department.
		SSRI provides both logistical and administrative support for research related activities such as the organization of conferences, the submission of research grants to funding agencies, the SSRI Working Paper Series and the Workshop (lecture) Series.
		The Institute is supported mainly by contributions from the College of Letters and Sciences and a sub-budget of the Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
	www.ssc.wisc.edu /econ/archive (164 words)

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		The Policy Research Institute is one of the UK’s leading university-based centres for applied economic and social research.
		Providing a multi-disciplinary environment for research and evaluation, we contribute to the improvement of policy and practice across a range of fields including labour markets and skills, economic development and urban regeneration, enterprise and SMEs, local and regional governance, social inclusion and the third sector.
		Our aim is to provide high quality research that meets the needs of our clients and contributes both to the public good and to the advancement of knowledge.
	www.lmu.ac.uk /lbs/pri (142 words)

	The William Davidson Institute - The William Davidson Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The William Davidson Institute (WDI) and the Institute for Social Research (ISR) have announced a research competition on public policy and business development in Eurasia.
		WDI Research Fellow Stuart Hart is interviewed in a Sept. 14 Financial Times article on doing business at the base of the pyramid.
		The William Davidson Institute is a non-profit, research and educational institute at the Michigan Ross School of Business.
	www.wdi.bus.umich.edu (551 words)

	Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
		Das Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung wurde 1984 gegründet.
		Das Institut organisiert seine Forschung in derzeit drei Arbeitsbereichen, diese sind Arbeits- und Diskussionszusammenhänge, wie sie bei entsprechender differenzierter Forschungsarbeit vonnöten sind.
		Das Institut versucht in seinen Forschungen umzusetzen, was seiner Meinung nach das Erscheinungsbild eines wissenschaftlichen Instituts generell prägen sollte, eine Mischung aus Kontinuität und Innovation.
	www.his-online.de (108 words)

	RCGD at ISR - Daphna Oyserman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		My research focuses on the processes by which social and cultural contexts set up and afford particular ways of making sense of ones' self; create meaning; and structure perceived possibilities.
		Specific research includes studies of antecedents and consequences of self-concept and racial-ethnic identity.
		A second line of interest focuses on preventive interventions, including developing theoretical frameworks to understand the process of risk and how it can be reduced and frameworks for understanding how culture, race, place, and developmental phase influence the generalizability of interventions.
	www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu /faculty/oyserman.htm (122 words)

	NIRA Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Research will also be conducted on the government's role in improving the safety, security and quality of life of citizens, and the possibility of a system for partnership between the public and private sectors in these areas.
		Research projects subsidized as part of the Specific Research Subsidy category will be conducted by member organizations of the Local Think Tank Forum, and will be limited to topics related to regional revitalization and civil society.
		Aiming to expand a theoretical, interdisciplinary and practical research and analysis of public policies and propose and persuade their focal arguments, this seminar is specially designed to advance the expertise through planning and conducting a case study by themselves.
	www.nira.go.jp /introe/intro3.html (1516 words)

	Institute for Social Research names new chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A social psychologist, Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and directs the ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics and the Program for Research on Black Americans, which he helped to establish in 1976.
		In 2002, Jackson was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.
		He is a former chair of the Section on Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Task Force on Minority Issues of the Gerontological Society of America, Committee on International Relations, and Association for the Advancement of Psychology, American Psychological Association.
	www.umich.edu /~urecord/0405/Feb07_05/00.shtml (1013 words)

	Institute for Social Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Institute for Social Research is a research unit at the University of New Mexico.
		We conduct high quality research on a variety of issue and challenges at the local, state, national, and international levels.
		As a unit within the University's College of Arts and Science, ISR is able to draw on a pool of graduate and undergraduate students to assist in its research projects.
	www.unm.edu /~isrnet (260 words)

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