I've made steady progress in connecting areas of sociology including peoples of the world, nations, and communities, and social structure and change to particular nations.  but nothing really liberating or noteworthy has come up yet. I'm getting closer, though.

Institutions in general are now connected to the nations of Western Civilization, which is one marker of progress. For religion in general, I'm making progress through the Latin peoples, which will also be liberating, but I'm not quite there yet.

   As I was going through Central American history, I came across a note that one of the countries welcomed immigrants, as long as they supported the national government and joined the Roman Catholic Church.  It reminded me of how recent (in historical tierms) true freedom of religion is, in historical terms, and that many peoples of the world today still do not have it.

The 20th century has been applied to Western Civilization, but there are a whole lot of nations that aren't Western, so it will be a little while yet before those are covered.  The 21st century is so far only applied to Anglic peoples.  I almost dread this part, because I know so little of Latin American history, especially in the last ten years or so, and I don't want to skim througn it too fast.  I've had my head in a bucket so I'm a bit short on what I know of detail of the last five years in this country.  Going back a bit further to the early 2000s, the late 20th century are areas where addition just doesn't go smoothly because of these hang-ups.  The 19th century is another horror show with wars, revolutions, and petty dictators scattered all over Latin America that it's going to take a week or few to even halfway sort out. Going back to classical and medieval history means tackling the Middle East.

Well, there's always the sociology section for consolation, right? Not really. Oriental peoples are up next, and couple of weeks back, I had addition of communities reach a critical point to provoke division of China. I set that aside, since it involved creating a bunch of stub pages for provinces of China, and then grouping them into a few regions as I've done for the United States. Now it's time to go back and finish that job.  Shortly behind it is making sure that nations are connected to other peoples, and it's again, Asiatic nations that are up next.  And then there is setting up cross-connections among nations, which puts me back into Latin America.  Somehow, I'm just not quite up to studying Western Civilization any more this week. The project of adding external links to cities and beginnint to apply social structure and change is going, again, to Asia.

Well, what about the institutions, which have been nagging me for years now? That's right, those are knocking on Asia, and if I get  more specific and look at religion, there's Latin America again.

So that's what's coming up. Where would you like to go?

To a considerable extent, this is because I have linked all kinds of historical periods to nations, but not developed much content for those nations. The program of going back and adding some historical content to the pages for nations is still working.

I don't have much progress in Prehistory, Antiquity, or classical and medieval history to report, since these are not all that heavily demanded. 

There is more progress in Modern history in general. This is being applied to African peoples. There also hasn't been much progress in the 16th to 18th centuries. For the 19th century I have more notes on Italy and France, In the 20th century, a review of the Balkan peoples is giving a more concrete picture of what was going on than the vague, fuzzy notions I hade. The late-mid 20th century of Italy and France has also improved a little.

Sociology hasn't been well applied to nations. Working on this has involved slight improvements in re-ordering the topics of sociology, which should help improve the flow of discussion, so far mostly within Western Civilization.  Peoples of the world also haven't been well applied. These are currently being used to develop Latin peoples. For several of the larger nations, I have had a program of connecting nations, and using these to form regions which  can then be sorted to identify regions of closest contact, on the theory that the immediate neigburs are usually (but not always) the largest influences. This has been most successfully done for the Anglic peoples. Not all the nations that are considered part of Western Civilization yet link back to it.

In Anglic peoples, this has gone far enough that I have cross-connected areas. It is no great surprise that these link back most heavily to the United States. What is more surprising is that the US is not itself more closely linked to other nations. considering its size and influence, I had proceeded some ways on this before turning my attention to other areas, but I thought I had gone further.

I finished the project of creating external links to nearly all the nations, but I skipped over cities when I was doing that, so that's also in progress.

I am starting to apply the social institutions to particular nations. This isn't too useful just yet, but it will be when I start getting deeper into details of religion, government, economics, and the like.

Sociology in genral, social structure and change,  institutions, and culture are being applied to nations in much the same that history is. So far, there isn't as much real usable content as I would like, but having the connections in place makes room for it to be added later.

In classical and medieval history there is still quite a bit of work to do in filling in Asiatic peoples, but there has been some visible progress. In the 15th century I've at least made notes on things such as the Hundred Years War between England and France, the Wars of the Roses, and the Tudor dynasty, and the beginning of the Renaissance. It will probably be a while before there is much substance to this century, but there are now a couple of landmarks in place. The earlier centuries don't have much solid information.

Modern history in general is too general, but Western Civilization and nations of Asiatic peoples now have at least a skeleton. I can't go back very far for African peoples or American Indian peoples, so the modern history will be important.

so I have at least a few notes to go from. Modern history has had some minor progress.

   Partly this is because I have a whole lot to do in connecting nations. Modern history is rather far behind. Adding links to nations is going slowly..I'm working through West Africa, but I don't have much historical content for these yet, and for application of other areas of sociology to particular nations, I've only gone as far as the Latin peoples. Applying social structure and change and instutions is going more slowly.

Instead, I've temporarily gone back to the older approach of working through history and expanding the connections of nations. Too many important developments in other areas require a deeper background of history.  Connecting Iraq and the Assyrian empire in early classical times was a significant achievement, and connecting Arabia to the origin of Islam was another. This isn't enough yet, but it is progress.

I have also begun something I've been putting off for much too long: going through the nations of the world and updating them. Some of these pages haven't been touched for a year and a half and going on two years. There should be an external link for each nation, and most of them don't have one yet. I also need an improved historical outline for each nations.  Considering all the work I've done on connecting historical periods for nations, there ought to be better connections going the other way around, and I need the external links to help fill in the details.  I've gone through Western Civilization doing these updates, but the rest of the world has a ways to go yet.

I've also added a few nations and cities. The nations aren't really that important, but I'm within a dozen or so of all the nations with a population of over 1 million, and these last few can prompt some important subdivisions of groups of peoples.  Communities will be more important in prompting subdivision of nations.  China will be the next one to go, and I'd like to get historical updates in place first.

I keep wanting to connect social structure and change in general  and Instututions in general to the development of nations, but I keep putting this off. I'm getting there.

I started making more of the end connections with December 2009, which involved rather more work than I had anticipated.

For one thing, once I got into it, I found that government was quite a bit messier., and I couldn't split events the way I had anticipated. I'm going to have to approach this more through particular governments, rather than going along functional lines.  My studies of political science are at a fairly unsophisticated level, and I've long had the notion that I need to develop my understanding using particular exampes taken from history and from around the world, rather adopt one of the various conflicting and contradictory theoretical approaches.

For another, the events I group under culture are going to be more numerous than i expected.  Behavioral culture is the more complicated area, and its biggest divisions are cultural events and sports, recreation and entertainnent.  Cultural events include holidays, gatherings, and is going to be heavy on disasters, natural disasters and otherwise. The sports, recreation, and entertainment is also going to have quite a few reported events. Well, this is partly why I backed off on the analysis I was doing a year ago. However, I have enough of the necessary structure in place that I can continue moving forward.

To this general end, I did a certain amount of analysis of December 2009, just to get a sense of closure on the addition of some aids topics.

I also did a certain amount of updating to the early 21st century history of Western civilization and  Anglic peoples. (This is obstinately refusing to fatten up enough that I can excuse splitting off the 20th century, which is necessary before I can split the overly fat US history file. ) There are enough connections to the United Kingdom that I have moved this into its own file so I can split the page and create a history for it.  Asiatic peoples, communities, social structure and change have also hade some improvements, mostly in linking the early 21st century and some of the last dozen nations added.

The history of Institutions now has a modern history page, and the application of institutions to culture has also been split off into a separate page.