International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.

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The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, a supplement to the 1930s classic, arrives as a significant, widely acclaimed expansion reflecting the field’s rapid growth and new methods. A 1955 committee initiated the project, with David L. Sills as editor and Alvin Johnson as honorary editor.

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With the publication of<i>The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences</i>, a new and significant work has arrived on the horizon. The present encyclopedia is a supplement to its predecessor,<i>The Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences</i>, which was edited by E. R. A. Saligman and Alvin Johnson and published in the early 1930's by Macmillian. The old encyclopedia has won world-wide acclaim for its scholarship and has been of tremendous use to students, scholars, and researchers for the past 35 years. In 1955 a committee was organized to study the possibility of publishing a new encyclopedia. The tremendous growth of the field, together with increasingly newer methods and conceptualization indicated that the time was ripe for starting to work on a new set. The present encyclopedia is impressive in its size and scope. David L. Sills is the editor, Alvin Johnson the honorary editor, and W.