social science
Human behavior disciplines
Social science is the study of human society and social relationships—disciplines like economics, sociology, psychology, political science, and anthropology.
Distinguished from natural sciences (physics, biology) and humanities (literature, philosophy), though boundaries blur.
A social scientist studies human behavior using systematic methods: She earned her degree in the social sciences.
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
- field workResearch outside the office
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
- behaviorManner of conducting oneself
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
demography · political economy · discipline · economics · ivory tower · criminology · politics · beliefs · values · class · interview · culture · data · theory · study · case study · focus group · statistics
- sciencesbiology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology
- school subjectsmath, English, history, reading, art
- researchstudy, research papers, researching, archive, peer review
- universal knowledgefacts, truth, wisdom, math, logic
- CEGEPsgeneral education
- empiricismempiricism, positivism, empirical research, inductive reasoning, Vienna Circle
social sciencenatural science
Empirical study of nature
physical science · hard science · physics · chemistry · natural sciences
social sciencehard science
Empirically rigorous research field
exact science · experimental science · pure science · applied science
social sciencehumanities
Study of culture
folk wisdom · fine arts · common sense · liberal arts · intuition
science, social, society, scientist, socialism, antisocial, socialist, socialize, sciences