Excellent question.
Somatosensory association cortex is a more general term, whereas secondary somatosensory cortex (SS2) is a more specifically defined area. Secondary somatosensory cortex is one region of somatosensory association cortex; there are others.
More info: http://www.neurology.org/content/43/4/762.full.pdf
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