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SAGE PUBLISHING Social Science Jargon Buster The Key Terms You Need To Know 2007 Edition by O'Leary
- Are you confused by academic jargon?- Do you know your `discourse' from your `dialectic'?- Can you tell the difference between `anomie' and `alienation'?The Social Science Jargon Buster tackles the most confusing concepts in the social sciences, breaking each down and bringing impressive clarity and insight to even the most complex terms. `This book successfully addresses the central task for any teacher of social theory - how to make the material accessible without making it simplistic and banal. The overall effect is a most effective text that hard-pressed students and lecturers will grab with both hands' -Dave Harris, Senior Lecturer in Social ScienceThis practical, down-to-earth dictionary will help students new to social science discourse gain a thorough understanding of the key terms. Each entry includes a concise core definition, a more detailed explanation and an introduction to the associated debates and controversies. In addition, students will find a useful outline of the practical application of each term, as well as a list of key figures and recommendations for futher reading.This dictionary brings a refreshing clarity to social science discourse, making it essential reading for all students on undergraduate social science courses. PrefaceAction ResearchAestheticsAgencyAlienationAnomieA posteriori / A priori AuthorityBehaviourism The BodyBureaucracy Capital CapitalismCausation Chaos theory ClassCognitive dissonance Collective Colonization CommodificationCommunism CommunityConflict theoryConservatism Critical / Radical Cultural Studies Culture DeconstructionDeductive/ Inductive reasoning DemocracyDeterminismDeveloped / Developing Countries Deviant behaviour Dialectic DichotomyDiscourse EgalitarianismEmpiricism EpistemologyEssentialism Ethics EthnocentricismEthnography EthnomethodologyExistentialism FascismFeminism Functionalism Fundamentalism Game theory GeneologyGlobalization Governance Grounded theory HegemonyHermeneuticsHistorical Materialism Historicism Human/social ecology Humanism Hybridity Hypothesis/ hypothetico-deductive method Id/ ego/ superego Idealism IdentityIdeology Imperialism Individualism Industrialisation Instrumentalism Justice Knowledge Labelling theoryLabourLeadership Liberalism MarginalizationMarxismMaterialismMcDonaldization Metanarrative MethodsMethodologyMicro/Macroeconmics Modernism/PostmodernismModernityMulticulturalism Nationalism NominalismNorms OntologyOther ParadigmPatriarchyPedagogy/Critical PedagogyPersonalityPhenomenologyPluralismPositivismPostmodernityPost Industrial Post PositivismPowerPragmatismPraxisPrejudice/DiscriminationProtestant ethic Qualitative/QuantitativeRationalismRealismReductionismReflexivityReificationRelativismResearch Credibility (positivist)Research Credibility (post-positivist)RevolutionRisk SocietyRole Scientific methodSecularisationSelfSemioticsSexualitySocial ChangeSocial ConstructionismSocial ControlSocial DarwinismSocial MobilitySocial MovementsSocial Science Research Social StratificationSocialismSocializationSocietySociobiologySocioeconomic status SociolinguisticsSolidarity(The) StateStructuralism/ Post-structuralism SubjectSubjectivismSymbolic InteractionismSystems theory TechnologyTeleology Theory/ Social TheoryTotalitarianismUrbanizationUtilitarianism BIBLIOGRAPHY/ READING LIST