Social Sciences

Concise, clearly written definitions of important terms in anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism.

This dictionary provides students and researchers with an accessible and definitive resource to use when studying statistics in the social sciences, reading research reports and undertaking data analysis.

The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences is the first attempt to combine and compare terminology in nine separate social and behavioral science disciplines: communication, economics, education, geography, media studies, political science, psychology, public administration, and sociology. This glossary is necessary because the social and behavioral sciences have expanded and diversified rapidly over the past century. Many of the terms in social science research carry different meanings depending on the discipline.

Modern social thought ranges widely from the social sciences to philosophy, political theories and doctrines, cultural ideas and movements, and the influence of the natural sciences. This Dictionary provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the main themes of social thought, principal schools and movements of thought, and those institutions that have been the subject of social analysis or engendered significant doctrines and ideas.:.; Provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the main themes of social thought.; Long essays and entries give full coverage to each topi.