In this book, several leading scientists representing a variety of key social sciences describing their discipline and provide guidance for applying the knowledge and method of that science. As contributors to this book, these scientists were asked to describe the subject matter of their disciplines and the kind of questions they typically address in their research. They provide lists of selected references for the reader who wants more information than can be provided in their short book chapters. A wide variety of theories, concepts, measures, data-collection methods, and spatial analysis approaches resides within each to the social science disciplines and authors cover. These include, for example, sociology, cultural anthropology, resource economics, and social psychology.