ABSTRACT

This 2-volume work includes approximately 1,200 entries in A-Z order, critically reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory. In addition, nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy; management and business; human geography; politics; sociology; law; psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense.

chapter |7 pages

Ability testing

chapter |13 pages

Accounting history

chapter |4 pages

Adulthood

chapter |14 pages

Affect regulation

chapter |1 pages

Aggressive behaviour in the

chapter |8 pages

Agoraphobia

chapter |7 pages

Ancient law

chapter |9 pages

Antisemitism

chapter |1 pages

Applied social research

chapter |1 pages

Appraisal, performance appraisal

chapter |2 pages

Aquinas, Thomas c.1225–1274

Italian theologian

chapter |4 pages

Arbitrage pricing theory

chapter |12 pages

Ariès, Philippe 1914–1984

French social historian

chapter |14 pages

Assessment

chapter |5 pages

Balance of payments

chapter |4 pages

Balance sheet, see Accounting, balance

chapter |3 pages

Bargaining, economic

chapter |13 pages

Behaviour, behaviour therapy

chapter |23 pages

Bilingualism in early childhood

chapter |2 pages

Business strategy

chapter |10 pages

Cabinet

chapter |3 pages

Capital theory controversy

chapter |4 pages

Career, concept

chapter |1 pages

Catastrophe theory

chapter |4 pages

Catch-all parties

chapter |6 pages

Causation, sociology

chapter |3 pages

Chicago School

chapter |12 pages

Childhood

chapter |8 pages

Church and state

chapter |1 pages

City system

chapter |5 pages

Civic culture

chapter |12 pages

Civil liberties

chapter |10 pages

Classical economics

chapter |2 pages

Codetermination, works councils

chapter |13 pages

Cognitive developmental theory

chapter |2 pages

Common law

chapter |8 pages

Communication in organizations

chapter |3 pages

Comparative advantage

chapter |7 pages

Competition, economic

chapter |6 pages

Computer industry

chapter |2 pages

Congress

chapter |14 pages

Consciousness

chapter |29 pages

Contestable markets

chapter |4 pages

Counterculture

chapter |3 pages

Creativity

chapter |9 pages

Criminology

chapter |2 pages

Cross examination

chapter |7 pages

Cultural capital

chapter |8 pages

Custody

chapter |1 pages

Death and dying

chapter |9 pages

Debt markets

chapter |3 pages

Deindustrialization

chapter |17 pages

Dementia

chapter |7 pages

Deterrence

chapter |12 pages

Diminishing returns

chapter |14 pages

Disengagement theory

chapter |2 pages

Durkheim, Emile 1858–1917

French sociologist

chapter |17 pages

East Asian economies

chapter |1 pages

Economic thought, history of

chapter |37 pages

Economics and biology

chapter |3 pages

Employee share-ownership plans

chapter |8 pages

End of ideology

chapter |6 pages

Environment, external

chapter |15 pages

Environmental law

chapter |6 pages

Ethics in research

chapter |1 pages

Ethnocentrism

chapter |14 pages

Ethnography

chapter |9 pages

European single currency

chapter |14 pages

Evaluation research

chapter |4 pages

Exports and export-led growth

chapter |11 pages

Fabianism

chapter |3 pages

Famine

chapter |2 pages

Fascism

chapter |8 pages

Fashion

chapter |1 pages

Feminism, Eastern European

ć, Slavenka, How We Survived Communism and Even

chapter |9 pages

Feminism, political

chapter |14 pages

Feminization of poverty

chapter |4 pages

Force field analysis

chapter |4 pages

Foreign aid

chapter |9 pages

Forensic psychology

chapter |1 pages

French regulation school

chapter |13 pages

French revolution

ław, Ending the Terror: The French Revolution

chapter |5 pages

Galbraith, J.K. 1908–

chapter |5 pages

Gardens, urban use and value

chapter |3 pages

Gender and social relations

chapter |7 pages

Gender roles

chapter |6 pages

Generalizability theory

chapter |6 pages

Geography of money

chapter |3 pages

Gestalt psychology, see Psychology,

chapter |15 pages

Globalization, human geography

chapter |7 pages

Gramsci, Antonio 1891–1937

Italian political philosopher

chapter |3 pages

Green, Thomas Hill 1836–1882

British philosopher

chapter |1 pages

Group socialization theory

chapter |8 pages

Group therapy

chapter |5 pages

Habeas corpus

chapter |11 pages

Hawthorne research

chapter |4 pages

Hicks, John R. 1904–1989

British economist

chapter |3 pages

Hierarchies, organizational

chapter |8 pages

High Court

chapter |4 pages

Homosexuality, law

chapter |2 pages

Household as an economic agent

chapter |22 pages

Human capital

chapter |2 pages

Humour

chapter |4 pages

Hunting and gathering

chapter |18 pages

Idealism

chapter |23 pages

Incest

chapter |8 pages

Inflation

chapter |13 pages

Ingroup and outgroup

chapter |2 pages

Institutions

chapter |5 pages

Insurance, economics

chapter |8 pages

Intelligence

chapter |8 pages

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

chapter |11 pages

Intrapreneurship

chapter |6 pages

Japanese economy and economic

chapter |2 pages

Job loss, redundancy, downsizing

chapter |7 pages

Job satisfaction

chapter |14 pages

Kaldor, Nicholas 1908–86

chapter |3 pages

King, Martin Luther, Jr 1929–1968

US civil rights leader

chapter |1 pages

Labelling theory

chapter |5 pages

Labour economics

chapter |2 pages

Labour market flexibility

chapter |3 pages

Labour Party (UK)

chapter |16 pages

Labour theory of value

chapter |6 pages

Law and multiculturalism

chapter |5 pages

League of Nations

chapter |4 pages

Legal aid

chapter |16 pages

Legislative drafting

chapter |3 pages

Life expectancy, see Human longevity

chapter |5 pages

Linear programming

chapter |13 pages

Locale

chapter |2 pages

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chapter |1 pages

EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

chapter |2 pages

Reader’s Guide to the

Volume 2 MICHIE

chapter |1 pages

CONTENTS

Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences, M-Z 975

chapter |11 pages

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ENTRIES

chapter |12 pages

THEMATIC LIST

chapter |2 pages

Maastricht, see Treaty on European

chapter |21 pages

Macroeconomics, post-Keynesian

chapter |7 pages

Management consulting

chapter |2 pages

Manifesto

chapter |1 pages

Manufacturing, see Just-in-time

chapter |1 pages

Mark-up, post-Keynesian literature

chapter |6 pages

Market failure

chapter |3 pages

Marshall, Alfred 1842–1924

British economist

chapter |1 pages

Marxist economics

chapter |1 pages

Masochism

chapter |22 pages

Mass hysteria

chapter |36 pages

Mesoeconomics

chapter |8 pages

Multiculturalism

chapter |3 pages

Multiple regression analysis

chapter |9 pages

Nation

chapter |2 pages

National systems of innovation

chapter |12 pages

Natural law theory

chapter |24 pages

Network externalities

chapter |6 pages

Non-material culture

chapter |41 pages

Obedience

chapter |25 pages

Paedophilia

chapter |8 pages

Performance measurement, business

chapter |3 pages

Philosophy and sociology

chapter |4 pages

Planned economy

chapter |12 pages

Polish economy and economic record

chapter |5 pages

Political geography

chapter |24 pages

Political participation

chapter |14 pages

Positivist research

chapter |5 pages

Poststructuralism

chapter |21 pages

Power, sociology

chapter |12 pages

Promissory estoppel, see Estoppel

chapter |21 pages

Psychological testing, psychometrics

chapter |4 pages

Psychopathy

chapter |13 pages

Public enterprise

chapter |6 pages

Qualitative research

chapter |1 pages

Queer theory in law

chapter |4 pages

Questionnaire design

chapter |19 pages

Race

chapter |11 pages

Regimes of accumulation

chapter |15 pages

Regulations (EU law)

chapter |3 pages

Resource-based economics

chapter |22 pages

Retirement

chapter |1 pages

Sadism

chapter |17 pages

Safe sex

chapter |7 pages

Second and third best theories

chapter |2 pages

Separation-individuation

chapter |5 pages

Sexual offenders

chapter |27 pages

Shareholder value management

chapter |4 pages

Social Darwinism

chapter |4 pages

Social exchange theory

chapter |21 pages

Social interaction

chapter |4 pages

Sociocultural evolution

chapter |18 pages

Sociological theory

chapter |20 pages

Sociology of science

chapter |1 pages

Speculation

chapter |6 pages

Speculative bubbles

chapter |15 pages

Sraffa, Piero 1898–1983

Italian economist

chapter |4 pages

State sovereignty

chapter |4 pages

Stereotype

chapter |12 pages

Strategic marketing management

chapter |3 pages

Superstition

chapter |2 pages

Survey

chapter |4 pages

Systems of innovation

chapter |5 pages

Talent

chapter |10 pages

Technological capabilities

chapter |7 pages

Thatcherism

chapter |5 pages

Third Way

chapter |24 pages

Time in economics

chapter |16 pages

Traditional society

chapter |5 pages

Trial

chapter |1 pages

Uncertainty in economics

chapter |6 pages

Unconscious

chapter |5 pages

Unemployment, historical experience

chapter |4 pages

Unemployment statistics

chapter |10 pages

United Nations (UN)

chapter |1 pages

Urbanism

chapter |8 pages

Urbanization, human geography

chapter |9 pages

Validity

chapter |6 pages

Wages

chapter |10 pages

The Wealth of Nations

Treatise by Adam Smith, 1776

chapter |7 pages

Witnesses

chapter |5 pages

Work–leisure interaction

chapter |3 pages

World systems theory

chapter X|2 pages

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