Thesaurus

definitions of thesaurus terminology

definitions of terms used in thesaurus entries

• SCOPE NOTE: explains HOW the term has been used to index items in the library database; defines the term
• USE: denotes a preferred term or phrase
• USED FOR: indicates terms or phrases that are NOT used to index items in the library database; these terms or phrases are considered synonymous with the indicated preferred term (only use "preferred terms" when searching the library database)
• BROADER TERM: broader or more general terms or phrases
• NARROWER TERM: narrower or more specific terms or phrases; a subset of the indicated broader term
• RELATED TERM: a term or phrase that is conceptually or associatively linked with the indicated preferred term

Thesaurus: 1501 entries.

INTERNET (Search for related entries in the library)

• RELATED TERM(S)

INFORMATION SOCIETY

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS (Search for related entries in the library)

• BROADER TERM(S)

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

• RELATED TERM(S)

FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

• USED FOR

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 

• USE

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS

INTERSECTIONALITY (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: An understanding that the social reality of people is simultaneously and interactively shaped by multiple, intersecting axes of social relations (i.e., class, gender, race).

• NARROWER TERM(S)

FEMINIST INTERSECTIONAL THEORIZING

INTRA-URBAN (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: A term that captures activities which occur within the same urban area (e.g. people who commute to work within the same city would be considered as intra-urban commuters).

• RELATED TERM(S)

COMMUTING

SCALE

URBAN

INUIT 

• BROADER TERM(S)

ABORIGINAL PERSONS

INVESTMENT BANKS 

• USE

FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

INVOLUNTARY PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT 

• USE

UNDEREMPLOYMENT

INVOLUNTARY SOLO SELF-EMPLOYMENT 

• USE

UNDEREMPLOYMENT

IOWA (Search for related entries in the library)

• BROADER TERM(S)

UNITED STATES