Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences
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The Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences is a specialized fifteen-volume Encyclopedia first published in 1930 and last published in 1967. It was envisaged in the 1920s by scholars working in disciplines which increasingly were coming to be known as "human sciences" or "social sciences". The goal was to create a comprehensive synthesis of the study of human affairs as undertaken by practitioners of all fields involved in such study. The parameters of what would come to be known as "social science" were in many ways initially established and defined by this publication.
The Encyclopaedia's founding organizations included the
The international network of social scientists developed in the process of creating the Encyclopaedia would prove especially important during the
The Encyclopaedia was last printed in 1967, then in its 16th edition. It was succeeded by the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by David L. Sills, and also published by Macmillan.[1]
See also
- List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968)
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001)
Notes
- ^ Columbia University Library. http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_12107465/dsc/6
- JSTOR 1885029
- ^ Krohn, Claus-Dieter. 1993. Intellectuals in Exile: Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research. Trans. Rita and Robert Kimber. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
- ^ Rutkoff, Peter M., and William B. Scott. 1986. New School: A History of the New School for Social Research. New York: Free Press.