Encyclopedias, Dictionaries...: Social Sciences

Covers general statistics and hard to find facts about United States cities.

Oxford's Dictionary of the Social Sciences is designed to break down the barriers between social science disciplines, as well as to make social scientific language comprehensible to general readers.

Covers the rise of urban America in the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach covering topics from economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology.

With chapters on social ethics

Covers the major theories, research, people, and issues in contemporary gender studies. Offers a cross-national/cross-cultural perspective that provides comparative analyses of the life experiences of men and women around the world.

Reference work for the emerging field of global studies, covering both transnational topics and intellectual approaches to the study of global themes.

his groundbreaking new work explores modern and contemporary political thought since 1750, looking at the thinkers, concepts, debates, issues, and national traditions that have shaped political thought from the Enlightenment to post-modernism and post-structuralism.

The economic, sociological, historical, anthropological and scientific aspects of race and racism.

Explains how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate experiment design strategies and results.

Covers all aspects of social work from practice, including demographics, social environments, social conditions, challenges, and policy.

This reference source on trauma includes articles on human behavioral and neurobiological responses to trauma, which are largely shaped by our genetic and cultural heritage. Includes coverages of professional standards in working with the traumatized and the effects of trauma on health professionals.

Covers all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. Includes urban economics, urban planning, urban architecture, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, urban politics, and urban social relations

This ebook provides overviews, excerpts and some full text of first-hand historical documents related to family in society.

A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context

Primary source documents focusing on human and civil rights.

A study, by topic, on issues surrounding marriage and family in many countries and comparing many cultures.

Covers a broad range of topics in social science including anthropology, art, economics, political science, history, religious studies and psychology from a national and international perspective.

How is race defined and perceived in America today, and how do these definitions and perceptions compare to attitudes 100 years ago... or 200 years ago?

The editors of the new SAGE Handbook of Regression Analysis and Causal Inference have assembled a wide-ranging, high-quality, and timely collection of articles on topics of central importance to quantitative social research, many written by leaders in the field. Everyone engaged in statistical analysis of social-science data will find something of interest in this book.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives examines the history of alcohol worldwide and goes beyond the historical lens to examine alcohol as a cultural and social phenomenon, used both for good and for ill.

For students and researchers within social science programs who seek to better understand economics through a contemporary lens.

This work addresses the persistence of poverty across the globe. Categories include articles on health and poverty, education and poverty, environmental sustainability and poverty, technology and poverty, and various different measurements of poverty.

The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights consists of more than 50 chapters that clarify and analyze human rights issues of both contemporary and future importance

The Handbook of Research Management is a unique tool for the newly promoted research leader.

Explores the social history of 20th-century America in detail, decade by decade, through the eyes of its everyday citizens.

A collection of primary source documents that focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic.