The Social Science Encyclopedia

2. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-28560-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 952 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1741 g

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 the 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuper, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Abnormal Psychology * Accounting * Adolescence * Advertising * Anarchism * Anthropology * Archaeology * Aristotle * Banking * Behaviourism * Jeremy Bentham * Business Studies * Cannibalism * Capital Punishment * Capitalism * Child Care * Noam Chomsky * Communications * Communism * Conservatism * Corporate Enterprise * Criminology * Cultural History * Charles Darwin * Democracy * Divorce * Drug Use * Eating Disorders * Economics * Education * Environment * Family * Feminist Theory * Sigmund Freud * Gender and Sex * Geography * History * David Hume * Incest * Individualism * International Relations * Interviews and Interviewing * Judicial Process * John Maynard Keynes * Language and Culture * Law * Libido * Linguistics * Machiavelli * Karl Marx * Media and Politics * Memory * Mental Health * Mortality * Nature * Orientalism * Patriarchy * Peasants * Penology * Political Theory * Power * Psychology * Punishment * Racism * Religion and Ritual * Sexual Behaviour * Sociology * Sport * Taboo * Taxation * Urban Planning * Violence * Voting * War Studies * Welfare State * Wittgenstein * Work and Leisure

Über Autor(innen)

Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University, UK