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  • 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)

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS (Search for related entries in the library)

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 

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).

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).

INUIT 

INVESTMENT BANKS 

INVOLUNTARY PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT 

INVOLUNTARY SOLO SELF-EMPLOYMENT 

IOWA (Search for related entries in the library)