Contemporary Thesaurus of Social Science Terms and Synonyms

An interdisciplinary research tool for natural language or free-text searching in the social and behavioral sciences a means by which social science researchers can reduce research time and save money in online fees. In searching the literature of one field by using the terminology of another researchers can take advantage of natural language searching which includes relevant synonyms or near-synonyms closely related terms and specific examples that describe concepts. The approximately 6000 terms supplement database-specific thesauruses and help users find multiple ways of expressing a concept for more effective searches. The subject areas covered include anthropology business current events education environmental concerns geriatrics medicine mental health political science public administration public affairs psychiatry psychology religion sociology social work and women''s issues. Annotation copyright Book News Inc. Portland Or.