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9780415207942

The Social Science Encyclopedia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415207942

  • ISBN10:

    0415207940

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-07-01
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This new edition of an already classic reference work provides students, librarians, social scientists, and professionals with an invaluable compendium of the entire range of the social sciences. The 500+ entries on all of the major issues and concepts in the social sciences encompass the areas of anthropology, business, economics, education, government and politics, law and criminology, linguistics, psychology, social work, sociology, women's studies and beyond. For anyone concerned with these fields, "The Social Science Encyclopedia" is a truly essential resource.

Table of Contents

Accountability
Accounting
Activation and arousal
Actor, social
Adolescence
Affirmative action
Ageing
Age-sex structure
Agricultural economics
Alcoholism and alcohol abuse
Alienation
Altruism and co-operation
Anarchism
Anger, hostility and aggression
Annales School
Anthropology
Anxiety
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Art, sociology of
Artificial intelligence
Asymmetric information
Attitudes
Auctions
Authoritarian and totalitarian systems
Authority
Balance of payments
Banking
Bargaining
Basic needs
Behavioural economics
Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Boas, Franz (1858-1942)
Body
Bourdieu (1930-2002)
Braudel
Fernand (1902-85)
Bureaucracy
Burke
Edmund (1729-97)
Business cycles
Business studies
Cannibalism
Capital, credit and money markets
Capitalism
Cargo cults
Cartography
Case study
Caste
Census of population
Chicago School
Child development
Childcare
Childhood
Chomsky
Noam (1928-)
Citizenship
City
Civil society
Class, social
Classical economics
Cliometrics
Cognitive behaviour therapy
Cognitive neuropsychology
Cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive science
Cohort analysis
Collective action
Collective bargaining
Colonialism
Communism
Community
Community development
Competition
Competition policy
Computer simulation
Conditioning, classical and operant
Conflict
Conflict resolution
Connectionism
Consciousness
Conservation
Conservatism
Consociation
Constitutions and constitutionalism
Consumer behaviour
Consumption function
Contracts
Corporate enterprise
Corruption
Cost-benefit analysis
Creativity
Crime and delinquency
Criminology
Cross-cultural psychology
Cultural anthropology
Cultural geography
Cultural history
Cultural studies
Culture
Darwin
Charles (1809-82)
Decision making
Defence economics
Delusions
Demand for money
Democracy
Democratization
Demographic surveys
Demographic transition
Demography
Deprivation and relative deprivation
Derivative markets and futures markets
Derrida
Developmental psychology
Deviance
Dewey
John (1859-1952)
Disability
Discourse analysis
Distribution of incomes and wealth
Division of labour by sex
Divorce
Domestic violence
Dreams
Drug use
DSM-IV
Durkheim
Emile (1858-1917)
Dyslexia
Ecology
Econometrics
Economic anthropology
Economic development
Economic dynamics
Economic geography
Economic growth
Economic history
Economic man
Economics
Economies of scale
Education
Educational sychology
Efficiency (economic)
Elections
Emotion
Employment and unemployment
Energy
Entrepreneurship
Environment, sociology of environmental economics
Epidemiology
Equality
Equilibrium
Ethics in social research
Ethnic politics
Ethnicity
Ethnography
Ethnomethodology
Event-history analysis
Evolutionary economics
Evolutionary psychology
Exchange
Exchange rate
Experimental design
Experimental economics
Externalities
Factors of production
Family
Fantasy
Fascism
Federalism and federation
Feminist theory
Fertility
Feudalism
Financial contagion
Financial crisis
Financial regulation
Financial system
Firm, theory of
First language acquisition
Focus groups
Folklore
Forecasting and prediction
Foucault
Michel (1926-84)
Frankfurt School
Free trade
Freedom
Freud
Sigmund (1856-1939)
Friedman
Milton (1912-)
Fundamentalism
Futurology
Game theory
Gender, sociology of genealogies
Genetics and behaviour
Genocide
Genomics
Geographical information systems
Geography
Gerontology, social
Globalization
Gold standard
Governance
Government
Group dynamics
Habermas
Jnrgen (1929-)
Habitus
Hayek
Friedrich A. (1899-1993)
Health economics
Hegel
Georg Wilhelm F. (1770-1831)
Hegemony
Hermeneutics
Herodotus
Historical linguistics
History
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Homosexualities
Household
Human capital
Human evolution
Human resource management
Human rights
Hume
David (1711-76)
Hunters and gatherers
Identity
Imperialism
Incest
Income
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