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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 Encyclopediaoffers 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.
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《书目》(Booklist)书评
Similar to the 1985 first edition, the second edition of the Social Science Encyclopedia attempts to provide broad and up-to-date coverage of all of the social sciences in a single volume. It contains more than 600 signed articles, ranging in length from a few paragraphs to a few pages, representing current theory, practice, and policy in such disciplines as anthropology, economics, education, feminism, geography, government and politics, linguistics, philosophy, and sociology. With such broad coverage, the encyclopedia does not go into great detail. Fortunately, every entry includes a bibliography for further reading. Like the first edition, the encyclopedia is written primarily for specialists in the field. It has a relatively high reading level and will be most useful for researchers and graduate students. A comparison of the first and second editions indicates that the editors have taken into account the many changes that have occurred in the social sciences over the intervening decade. In a random sample of entries selected from both editions, only one-quarter of the text was found to be the same. Approximately 15 percent of the entries from the first edition were dropped, and more than one-half of all entries have been revised and updated. A further 25 percent of the entries in the second edition are completely new. Many of the articles contain recent findings and citations, some as recent as 1994. This work will replace the first edition and will continue to serve as an update to the old standard, the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. It will be a useful addition to any social sciences research collection. (Reviewed April 1, 1996)
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It is difficult to imagine the third edition of this resource omitting any entry for Carl Jung, but missing it is. Aggravating too is the lack of an alphabetic guide on the volumes' spines or front covers. The introduction says that the first and second editions (1985 and 1996) have been upgraded to reflect 21st-century work, but few entries cite resources later than 1999. Although the Kupers acknowledge that entries range from brief to detailed, subjects such as "Public Opinion Polls," "Public Choice," and "Public Sphere" are treated with such brevity one questions why they were included. Compared to the overample entry "Poverty," they raise the question, what criteria governed the selection of entries? A vital asset of a good encyclopedia is its lists of further readings, especially for librarians trying to build collections. Those in SSE are for the most part inadequate. The major asset of this edition is its wide variety of topics. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. For libraries that need to update their current set or for large collections that seek brief reference on a wide variety of topics in the social sciences. A. Salter Oglethorpe University
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
This somewhat eccentric work includes entries under the disciplines of biology, medicine, philosophy, and psychiatry. A page-long entry on ``semantics'' ex plains what is actually meant by the sentence, ``Mary hit Alice.'' While in formative, this properly belongs in an encyclopedia of linguistics or logic, not in an already truncated social-science volume. Others of the entries are equal ly misplaced, and some are uneven in quality; 500 scholars contributed to the effort, but editorial control seems lack ing. While the publication of a work of interdisciplinary thought is welcome, users cannot rely on finding the expect ed. ``Acculturation'' refers the reader to the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences for further read inggood advice to follow for a first reading. Bill Bailey, Newton Gresh am Lib., Huntsville, Tex. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
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 |