Social Sciences
Guides for Social Sciences research
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Background reading
These resources are great for background reading, learning about new concepts, and exploring theories:
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed by ISBN: 9780080430768Publication Date: 2001-11-22Comprehensive reference work covering social and behavioural sciences. Subject coverage ranges from geography to gender studies to political science.
The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory by ISBN: 1405184965Publication Date: 2008-02-27Comprehensive reference work covering areas from classical sociology to actor network theory, and from structuralism to the sociology of the body.
Introducing Social Theory by ISBN: 9780745635224Publication Date: 2011-05-31Traces the development of social theorizing from the classical ideas about modernity of Durkheim, Marx and Weber, right up to a uniquely accessible review of contemporary theoretical controversies in sociology surrounding post-modernity and reflexive sociology.
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