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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 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.