A Dictionary of the Social Sciences [antikvár]

Preface This dictionary of over 7,500 terms covers all the social sciences with the exception of economics and linguistics. Those economic and linguistic terms which are frequently used in the other social sciences have, however, been included. It has also been found necessary to include terms from subjects peripheral to the social sciences. This dictionary is intended for students of the social sciences, public administration, social administration and social work, and should prove useful to the personnel of the specialized agencies and other international organizations. This is not an encyclopaedic dictionary. The literary approach in volving short articles in alphabetical order, too long for a dictionary and too short to be adequate as articles, is a tradition from which the author has departed. An encyclopaedic treatment has certain advantages and a dictionary treatment has certain limitations, but these are limitations which the author accepts and considers acceptable. A dictionary has its own function andforms part of the armamentarium of the student, along with text-books, monographs, and articles in journals and encyclopaedias. The entries are thus purely analytic and no empirical irtforma-tion is given. The definitions are as concise as possible without loss of meaning. The definitions are hierarchical and interrelated, the definitions employing terms, printed in italics, which are defined elsewhere in the dictionary. Thus the dictionary possesses a logical unity. A superscript shows the sense in which a term is being used by giving the number of the definition in the entry indicated. Compounds are reversed. Thus, asplrational reference group is entered in the form group, reference, aipirational. .4 n exception is made in the case of vital statistics where the first two words are given in normal order. With a phrase such as qualitative or quantitative data, look up data, qualitative and data, quantitative. With a phrase Such OS organized, negative sanction, look up sanction, organized and sanction, negative. The symbol n in compounds, e.g. primitive n society, means that each word is separately defined but not the compound.