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SOCIAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (SUBJECT GUIDE)

SOCIOLOGY (SUBJECT GUIDE)

POLITICS (SUBJECT GUIDE)

Reference Sources

This section contains links to encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical sources, current events and chronologies.

• Oxford English Dictionary
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary
• Cambridge Dictionaries online
• Merriam-Webster. Online dictionary and thesaurus
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Synonyms Thesaurus
• International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier ScienceDirect
• WebRef  glossary
• Glossary of social science computer and social science data terms
• Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Collects anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism into one volume.
• Oxford Dictionary of Statistics
• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences(Athabasca University)   
• Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (UKDA)                         

Psychology

• AllPsych Online: Psychology dictionary
• Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology : Interpersonal Processes / edited by Garth J.O. Fletcher and Margaret S. Clark. Blackwell, 2001 (22.3.FLE.2a-c)
• Concise encyclopedia of psychology, 1996 (7.3.COR.1 REF)
• Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
• Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Library use: Handbook for Psychology / Jeffrey G. Reed and Pam M. Baxter. APA 2003 (7.6.REE.2a REF)
• A glossary of Freudian terminology
• Oxford companion to the Mind
• Oxford dictionary of Psychology
• Penguin dictionary of Psychology, 2001 (7.21.PEN.1a REF)
• Psychology glossary
• Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive
• Sage handbook of methods in social psychology / edited by Carol Sansone, Carolyn C. Morf and A.T. Panter. Sage, 2004 (13.1.SAN.2a)
• Sir Frederic Bartlett archive
• A Social Psychology glossary
• Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, Vols 1-24; edited Strachey, J.

Political Science

• The Blackwell dictionary of political science: a user's guide, 1999 (7.3.BEA.1a REF)
• Dictionary of statistics and methodology: a nontechnical guide for the social sciences, 1999 (7.3.VOG.1 REF)
• Hyperpolitics : dictionary of political science
• Blackwell encyclopedia of political institutions, 1987 (7.3.BOG.1 REF)
• Blackwell encyclopedia of political thought, 1991 (7.3.MIC.1 REF)
• Encyclopedia of democracy. 4 vols, 1995 (7.6.LIP.1-4 REF)
• Encyclopedia of government and politics. 2 vols, 1992 (7.3.HAW.1-2 REF)
• Facts on file dictionary of American politics, 2001 (7.3.HIL.1a REF)
• Oxford companion to politics of the world, 2001 (7.3.KRI.1a REF)
• Oxford companion to twentieth-century British politics, 2002 (7.3.RAM.2a REF)
• Almanac of American politics, 1974 (28.13.BAR.2 REF)
• New handbook of political science, 1998 (6.5.GOO.2a REF)
• Glossary of political economy terms / P.M. Johnson, Auburn University
• Oxford Dictionary of Political Biography. Covers all the major figures in world politics during the 20th century
• Oxford Guide to the United States Government. Features biographies of all Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, members of Congress, commentary on elections, major Presidential decisions etc.
• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics. Covers political institutions, concepts, leaders & thinkers.

Sociology

• International Encyclopedia of Civil Society
• Oxford Dictionary of Sociology
• Online dictionary of the social sciences / Athabasca University and ICAAP
• Blackwell dictionary of sociology : a user's guide to sociological language / Allan G. Johnson Blackwell, 2000. (REF 7.3.JOH.1a)
• Penguin dictionary of sociology / Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, Bryan S. Turner. Penguin, 2000 (REF 7.3.ABE.2)
• Sociology / David Jary & Julia Jary. HarperCollins, 2000 (REF 7.3.JAR.3a)
• UMD glossary of sociological theory
• Encyclopedia of sociology / edited by Edgar F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta. Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall, 1992 (REF 7.3.BOR.1-4 )
• International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. (UL: Reading Room R200.10)

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