The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001), edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, is a 26-volume work. It has some 4,000 signed articles, commissioned by around 50 subject editors, and includes 150 biographical entries, 122,400 entries, and an extensive hierarchical subject index. It is also available in online editions. The work has been described in Contemporary Psychology as the "the largest corpus of knowledge about the social and behavioral sciences in existence."
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Contents include the following broad Subject Classification.
Overarching Topics: Institutions and infrastructure, History of the social sciences and the behavioral sciences, Ethics of research and applications, Biographies, Integrative concepts and issues
Methodology: Statistics, Mathematics and computer sciences, Logic of inquiry and research design.
Disciplines: Anthropology, Demography, Economics, Education, History, Linguistics. Philosophy, Political science, Clinical psychology and applied psychology, Cognitive psychology and cognitive science, Developmental psychology, social psychology, personality psychology and motivational psychology, Sociology
Intersecting Fields: Evolutionary sciences, Genetics, behavior and society, Behavioral neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience, Psychiatry, Health, Gender studies, Religious studies, Expressive forms, Environmental sciences/ecological sciences, Science and technology studies, Area studies and international studies
Applications: Organizational studies and management studies, Media studies and commercial applications, Urban studies and Urban planning, Public policy, Modern cultural concerns
The above Subject Classification is alphabetized with a link for
each such general subject at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/0080430767.
Each such link leads to subclassification links for that subject.
The hierarchical classification of articles for a subject can be
used to locate an article. For example, the Economics link above
brings up these subclassification links:
Each such subclassification link goes to corresponding
Encyclopedia article titles with the author, page numbers,
and links to the article Abstract and a View of Related Articles.
(The latter is an extensive list of references separate from the
Bibliography in the article.) For example, under the Economics link
above, the link for "General Methods and Schools" brings up:
The Abstract (summary) for each article can be linked from the article link. An example of an Abstract link is that for the article "Economics: Overview" above.
   | description. - International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences - Elsevier |
| | "Economics: Overview" - ScienceDirect - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences : Economics: Overview |
| | 150 - ScienceDirect - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Home Page |
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