Social Science Thesaurus

The Social Sciences Thesaurus is a systematically ordered compilation of social science terms. It is the central keyword vocabulary for content research in the social science specialist portal sowiport and an essential indexing tool for the social science literature and project databases of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences .

General

The Social Sciences Thesaurus was developed for the indexing of social science literature and research projects and their research in the databases SOFIS (Social Science Research Information System) and SOLIS (Social Science Literature Information System). It is also used as a cataloging and research tool in the social science open access full-text repository SSOAR (Social Science Open Access Repository) .

Since the social sciences portal sowiport went online, the social sciences thesaurus has also been the central keyword index for content searches in all of the national and international specialist databases integrated in sowiport. For this purpose, the thesaurus for social sciences was linked with all indexing vocabularies in the specialist databases integrated in sowiport. The Social Sciences Thesaurus has thus become the central vocabulary that bridges a large number of other relevant national and international specialist and universal thesauri (including Thesaurus for Sociological Indexing Terms and Common Authority File)

The Social Sciences Thesaurus is available in German, English and French and is constantly being further developed in line with new topics in social science research. With currently more than 8,000 headwords and around 4,000 synonym links, it covers all disciplines of the social sciences.

The social sciences thesaurus is freely accessible in interactive form with its own user interface in the specialist portal sowiport. In addition to alphabetical and systematic access, the thesaurus translations as well as the cross concordances to the vocabularies of the specialist databases integrated in sowiport are displayed.

Subject areas

The Social Sciences Thesaurus covers the following areas:

• sociology
• Methods of Social Sciences
• Political science
• Social policy , social affairs
• Social psychology
• Educational research , educational science
• Communication science
• Demographics
• ethnology
• Historical social research , social history
• Labor market and occupational research

Also included are social science aspects of

• Economics
• psychology
• medicine
• Environmental research
• Jurisprudence
• gerontology

In addition, terms from the humanities, natural and technical sciences (e.g. dialectics , genetics , CAD ) as well as non-scientific vocabulary from subject areas that are the subject of the social sciences (e.g. housing ) are included in the Thesaurus for Social Sciences.

Social sciences thesaurus as SKOS version

In order to network the Thesaurus Social Sciences on the Internet with other indexing vocabularies, it was converted in 2009 to the W3C standard SKOS ( Simple Knowledge Organization System ) for the uniform publication of thesauri on the Internet.

In addition to self-defined so-called extensions, it contains cross concordances to the Standard Thesaurus for Economics (STW) of the ZBW - German Central Library for Economics - Leibniz Information Center for Economics . The SKOS version of the Social Sciences Thesaurus can be downloaded from the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences homepage.

Web links

• Wiktionary thesaurus
• The social science specialist portal sowiport
• Homepage of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences
• Standard Thesaurus for Economics (STW) of the Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
• Website of the GESIS-Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thesaurus Social Sciences ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the GESIS-Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences. Retrieved October 10, 2013. 
2. ^ Schott, Hannelore: Thesaurus social sciences. Information Center for Social Sciences, Bonn 2005, page VII , ISBN 3-8206-0151-1 .
3. ↑ Thesaurus Social Sciences  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Thesaurus info page at sowiport. Retrieved October 10, 2013.