The second volume is devoted to special fields and applications. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography. The 22 chapters in this resource cover theoretical and methodological issues, bases of inequality in society, major institutional and organizational settings, and social processes and change. Authored by experts, the chapters also have lengthy bibliographies. More than 1,800 entries representing major concepts in sociology, major theorists and terms relating to statistics and methodology.
Entries range in length from a paragraph to two pages and are cross-referenced.
Brief to two page entries written by experts in the fields. A compilation of statistics with narrative. This is the principle index to the literature in sociology and related disciplines. Coverage is from 1963-, and this is an international database. Provides citations to and abstracts from journals, books, dissertations, and conference papers.