International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
| Editors |
Neil J. Smelser Paul B. Baltes |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject |
Behavioural sciences Social science |
| Published | 2001 |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 16,695 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 47869490 |
| LC Class | H41 .I58 2001 Alc |
The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001), edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, is a 26-volume work. It has some 4,000 signed articles (commissioned by around 50 subject editors), and includes 150 biographical entries, 122,400 entries, and an extensive hierarchical subject index. It is also available in online editions. Contemporary Psychology described the work as "the largest corpus of knowledge about the social and behavioral sciences in existence."
Contents include the following broad Subject Classification.
Overarching Topics: Institutions and infrastructure, History of the social sciences and the behavioral sciences, Ethics of research and applications, Biographies, Integrative concepts and issues
Methodology: Statistics, Mathematics and computer sciences, Logic of inquiry and research design.
Disciplines: Anthropology, Demography, Economics, Education, History, Linguistics. Philosophy, Political science, Clinical psychology and applied psychology, Cognitive psychology and cognitive science, Developmental psychology, social psychology, personality psychology and motivational psychology, Sociology
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