紹介
The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists, librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe it as a classic. This third edition has been radically recast. Over half the entries are new or have been entirely rewritten, and most of the balance have been substantially revised. Written by an international team of contributors, the Encyclopedia offers a global perspective on key issues within the social sciences. Some 500 entries cover a variety of enduring and newly vital areas of study and research methods. Experts review theoretical debates from neo-evolutionism and rational choice theory to poststructuralism, and address the great questions that cut across the social sciences. What is the influence of genes on behaviour? What is the nature of consciousness and cognition? What are the causes of poverty and wealth? What are the roots of conflict, wars, revolutions and genocidal violence? This authoritative reference work is aimed at anyone with a serious interest in contemporary academic thinking about the individual in society.
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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
