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This Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and
behavioral sciences on a grand scale. It is the largest reference work ever
published for the social and behavioral sciences and the first to appear in
both print (2001) and online (2004) formats. The encyclopedia comprises 3,842
articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000
bibliographic references.
"IESBS, a major social science reference work with a user-friendly
interface.. Well worth the expense, even to libraries holding the print
version..." CHOICE, November 2003
“..the largest corpus of knowledge about the social and behavioral sciences
in existence.. the social science equivalent of the Egyptian pyramids..one of
the great wonders of the scientific world. ..the Web-based version of
the Encyclopedia fully unleashes the power, complexity, and organization of
this monumental work.” CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ELL2,
builds on foundations laid by the first. ELL1 received enthusiastic reviews
when it was published in 1993, edited by Ron Asher, and for a decade has been
the most authoritative, international reference source in its field.
Since the first edition, linguistics has seen an explosive growth both in its
own specializations and in interdisciplinary fields. ELL2 will reflect this.
It is an entirely new work, with new and expanded sections, new topics, new
editors, new authors and newly commissioned articles, while retaining from
ELL1 a handful of classic articles, mainly of historical interest.
The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement captures the data, techniques,
theories, designs, applications, histories, and implications of assigning
numerical values to social phenomena. Responding to growing demands for
transdisciplinary descriptions of quantitative and qualitative techniques,
measurement, sampling, and statistical methods, it will increase the
proficiency of everyone who gathers and analyzes data.
