Table of Contents

* 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

About the Author

Adam Kuper is Professor of Human Sciences at Brunel University, England. Jessica Kuper is editor of the series Social Science Lexicons.

Reviews

"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."
-"Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin, April 1, 1996
"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."
-"Booklist, April 1996
..."will be a useful addition to any social sciences research collection."
-"Booklist, April 1996
"Renewed through significant revision, the encyclopedia will help students understand key concepts and current controversies across the full range of the social sciences."
-"Rettig on Reference, June 1996

"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."
-"Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin, April 1, 1996
"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."
-"Booklist, April 1996
..."will be a useful addition to any social sciences research collection."
-"Booklist, April 1996
"Renewed through significant revision, the encyclopedia will help students understand key concepts and current controversies across the full range of the social sciences."
-"Rettig on Reference, June 1996