Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
About this reference work
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and curious readers in the field. A dynamic online publication, Emerging Trends highlights some of the most compelling topics in current scholarship and presents them through an interdisciplinary lens. It provides an opportunity for leading scholars to share their expertise and for readers to understand how groundbreaking ideas will shape the trajectory of research in the coming decades. The work’s expert authors present complex ideas clearly and concisely, extracting key points and explaining the potential impact on not only the social sciences but also on human society.
- Focus on five core social and behavioral science disciplines:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Political science
- Anthropology
- Economics
- Additional entries in related fields, including education, immigration, technology, and media.
- Over 400 articles from relevant disciplines fully cross-referenced with hyperlinks that illuminate connections between seemingly disparate ideas.
- Promotes interdisciplinary and multi-layered awareness on key topics.
- Articles in open formats, providing access from a variety of reading devices.
The work’s unique strength comes from its interdisciplinary approach and simple navigation, which allow readers to discover ideas from other disciplines and uncover noteworthy connections. Emerging Trends is designed to grow organically with additional essays from relevant disciplines added regularly.
Topics
- Antisocial Behavior
- Applications of Social Science Knowledge to Policy
- Arts and Cultural Institutions
- Attitudes and Opinions
- Behavioral Economics
- Biology, the Individual and Society
- Civic Engagement
- Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Impairments
- Cognitive Plasticity
- Communication
- Complex Organizations and Bureaucracies
- Conformity and Deviant Behavior
- Culture and Cognition
- Culture and Society
- Decision Making
- Developmental Contexts
- Developmental Processes
- Disability, Deviancy and Stigma
- Educational Institutions
- Emotional Development
- Emotional Regulation
- Emotions — Types and Varieties
- Environmental and Climate Change
- Evolutionary Bases of Development
- Family Relationships
- Gender and Gender Inequality
- Genetics, the Individual and Society
- Globalization
- Government Systems
- Health and Illness
- Health Care Institutions
- Human Rights
- Human Sexuality
- Immigration
- Information Processing
- Institutions of Social Control
- International Relations
- Language
- Legal Institutions
- Life Course
- Markets
- Marriage and the Family
- Mass Communication
- Memory
- Mental Disorder Varieties
- Mental Illness Diagnosis and Treatment
- Moral Development
- Motivation
- Perception
- Planned Environment
- Political Power
- Population Dynamics
- Primary Group Relationships
- Primate Studies
- Property Rights
- Race and Ethnicity
- Religious Institutions
- Research Methods — Qualitative
- Research Methods — Quantitative
- Resilience
- Risk‐Taking Behavior
- Self and Identity Development
- Sexual Relationships
- Skills and Talent Development
- Sleep Disorders
- Small Groups
- Social and Economic Inequality
- Social Change
- Social Interactions in Everyday Life
- Social Movements
- Social Networks
- Social Stratification
- Socialization
- Statistical Methods
- Stereotypes
- Technology
- Technology
- Terrorism
- Theory — Discipline specific
- Theory — Micro‐level
- Theory — Micro‐level
- Trust
- Urbanization
- Violence, Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- Work and the Economy
