Dictionary of the Social Sciences - Articles

1,803 total articles

A 2002 book covering the meanings and origins of key terms in modern social sciences.

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zonal model

zero-sum games

Zeitgeist

yield

X-efficiency

Wundt, Wilhelm

Worsley, Peter

worldview

world-systems theory

work orientation

work

Wolin, Sheldon

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

witchcraft

Winnicott, Donald Woods

winners curse

Williams, Raymond

Wildavsky, Aaron

Wicksell, Knut

White, Leslie A.

whip

Westminster model

Weltanschauung

welfare economics

Weber, Max

Weber, Alfred

wealth effect

war crimes

war

Walras, Leon

Wallerstein, Immanuel

wages, nominal and real

wage-fund doctrine

wage–push inflation

wage discrimination

voting

Von Thünen model

von Neumann–Morgenstern utility function

voluntary export restraints

voice

virtual community

virilocal

Vidal de la Blache, Paul

Vico, Giambattista

vicious cycles

veto

vertical integration

verstehen

Verba, Sidney

vent for surplus

velocity of circulation

veil of ignorance

Veblen, Thorstein

Veblen effect

variance

variable costs

variability

value-added tax

value

validity

uxorilocal residence

utopia

utility maximization

utility function

utility comparisons

utility

utilitarianism

urbanism

urban morphology

urban economics

unobtrusive measures

unitary state

union

unintended consequences

unilineal

unicameralism

uneven development

unemployment

underdevelopment

underclass

unconscious

uncertainty

unbalanced growth

ultimogeniture

tyranny

Tylor, Edward Burnett

turnpike theory

turnout

Turner, Victor

Tuan, Yi Fu

Truman, David

Trotskyism

tribes

triangulation

transnationalism

transitional objects

transhumance

transformational–generative grammar

transformation problem

transference