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Social Sciences
A general guide to assist students with social science research and assignments.
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This subject guide is intended to help you get started finding Social Sciences resources in the Lane Community College Library. Use the tabs within this Guide to find books, e-books, media, websites and other resources on the topics of Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.
Social Sciences are classified by the Library of Congress in various areas. The following call number ranges will be helpful to browse the shelves to find books of interest:
- Cultural & Social Anthropology (GN 301-674)
- Physcial Anthropology (GN 49-298)
- Archeology (GN 700-890)
- Psychology (BF 1-990)
- Sociology (HM 1-1281)
- Economics (HB 1-3840)
- Family, Marriage, Women (HQ)
- Communities, Races, Classes (HJ)
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
- International Encyclopedia of the Social SciencesCovers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
- Dictionary of Social SciencesOxford's unprecedented Dictionary of the Social Sciences is designed to break down the barriers between social science disciplines, as well as to make social scientific language comprehensible to general readers.
- Dictionary Plus Social SciencesThis dictionary comprises authoritative, highly accessible entries relating to the social sciences—from politics, economics, and geography, to sociology, history, and psychology, among many other subjects.