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About the BAS • History of the BAS • Scope Notes • Fast-track Journal List • Subject Classification of the BAS • Organization of BAS Entries • Acknowledgments

Subject Classification in the BAS

General & Miscellaneous

Anthropology & Sociology

Communal Relations
Community Development
Ethnic Groups
Folklore
Folk Medicine
Immigrant Communities
Old Age
Overseas Communities
Physical Anthropology
Population

Control
Distribution
Race Relations
Rural Conditions
Social Change
Social Conditions
Social Customs
Social Problems
Social Structure
Caste
Family
Marriage
Social Work
Urban Studies
Women
Youth & Children

Arts

Architecture

Landscape Architecture
Bronzes
Calligraphy
Ceramics
Cinema
Dance
Folk Arts
Music
Painting
Photography
Prints & Drawings
Recreational Arts
Sculpture
Textile Arts
Theater

Biography

(By Individuals)

Communication & Media

Advertising
Journalism & the Press
Public Relations
Publishing & Book Trade
Radio & Television
Telephone & Telegraph

Economics

Agriculture

Animal Culture
Aquaculture
Communes & Cooperatives
Food Policy
Forestry
Irrigation
Land Tenure
Land Use
Technological Change
Commerce
Cooperatives
Economic Conditions
Economic Demography
Economic History
Economic Planning
Economic Policy
Economic Theory
Finance
Banking
Insurance
Investment
Money
Public Finance
Taxation

Government Business Enterprises
Industry
Automobile Industry
Consumer Electronics Industry
Computer Industry
Cottage Industry
Energy Resources
Fishing Industry
Housing Industry
Management of Industry
Manufactures
Mining
Resource Use
Tea Industry
Technological Change
Textile Industry
Technicians
Tourism
International Economics
Foreign Aid
Foreign Investment
Trade
Labor
Employment
Labor Force
Labor Organizations
Wages
Land Development & Settlement
Regional Associations
Rural Development
Social Insurance
Transportation
Urban Development
Housing

Education

Administration
Adult Education
Elementary Education
Higher Education
Research & Testing
Secondary Education
Students
Teachers & Teaching
Technical Education

Geography

Cartography
Description & Travel

History

(By Period. Not all countries have this, and the names of periods vary by country)

Archaeology & Prehistory
Epigraphy
Genealogy
Historiography
Local History
Numismatics & Philately

Language

Lexicography
Linguistics
Writing Systems & Orthography

Library & Information Sciences

Archives
Bibliography
Cataloging
Computers
Indexing
Libraries & Information Centers
Manuscripts

Literature

Drama

Studies & Criticism
Translations
Fiction
Studies & Criticism
Translations
Poetry
Studies & Criticism
Translations

Philosophy & Religion

Buddhism
Christianity
Confucianism
Folk Religion
Hinduism
Islam
Jainism
New Religions
Sikhism
Shinto
Taoism
Textual Studies & Translations
Yoga
Zoroastrianism

Politics & Government

Armed Forces
Center-Regional Relations
Civil Service
Constitution
Courts & Judiciary
Defenses
Elections
Human Rights

Tiananmen Square Incident
International Relations
Law
Legislature
Local Government
Military Conflict
Political Parties
Political Theory
Public Administration
Regional Associations
Regional Government
Regionalism

Psychology & Psychiatry

Science & Technology

Environmental Studies
Geology
Hydraulic Engineering
Medicine
Meteorology
Nutrition
Public Health

Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Seismology
Volcanology
Yoga and Health

Special subject headings (under any subject, at fourth subject level)

—Bibliography
—Reference
—Sources
—Study & Teaching

See also:

About the BAS • History of the BAS • Scope Notes • Fast-track Journal List • Organization of BAS Entries • Acknowledgments