The Social Science Encyclopedia

ISBN-13: 9780415476355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 1120 str.

Opis

This reference has been written by an international team of contributors presenting a global understanding of the key issues within social sciences. A board of advisory editors has worked closely with the editors in determining the most important concepts, thinkers and techniques in each field.

Spis treści

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