The Social Science Encyclopaedia 2nd edition

The classic encyclopaedia of the social sciences is the Macmillan of 1930‐1935 (Seligman, 1930‐) as updated, but never superseded by the further edition of 1968 (Sills, 1968). Not many libraries will have these, or can afford to give over two whole shelves of precious space to them. Even those of us who do have them need to update them, preferably with something a bit more compact. If we accept that the social sciences, as sciences, started with Durkheim’s Rules of Sociological Method (1894), then the first of these covered the first half‐century of the subject, and the second covered the...