The Social Science Encyclopedia (Paperback, 2nd edition)

This reference has been written by an international team of contributors presenting a global understanding of all the key issues within social sciences. A board of advisory editors have worked closely with the editors in determining the most important concepts, thinkers and techniques in each field. Features of the encyclopedia: lengthy entries cover each of the major disciplines within the social sciences; extensive cross-referencing at the end of each entry directs the reader through the volume and provides easy access to relevant articles; related fields are also covered in depth and the philosophy of the social sciences is addressed as are theories, methodology and areas of study; and profiles of key figures and schools of thought from Freud to Foucault and from the Chicago School of Economics to the Frankfurt School are provided. This new edition of the work is a wide-ranging reference tool for the social sciences with 90 per cent of the entries either new, entirely rewritten or substantially revised for the 1990s.