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Social Sciences

Material on the nature and problems of the social sciences, and their relationship to each other, will be found in Area studies; Behavioral sciences; Conferences; Ethics, article On ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information storage and retrieval, particularly the articles On REFERENCE MATERIALS AND BOOKS and BIBLIOGRAPHIC ISSUES IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; SCIENCE. Problems of financial support are reviewed in Foundations; Research and development, article on FINANCING SOCIAL RESEARCH. Material on the utilization of the social sciences and of social scientists will be found in POLICYSCIENCES; Professions; Social problems; Teaching; UNIVERSITIES. For an overview of the coverage in this encyclopedia of specific fields of study, see ANTHROPOLOGY; Economics; Geography; History; Law; Political science; Psychiatry; Psychology; Sociology; STATISTICS.

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