social sciences
Society's academic disciplines
The social sciences are academic disciplines that study human society and social relationships—including economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, and psychology.
Distinguished from natural sciences (which study physical phenomena) and humanities (which emphasize interpretation of texts and art), though boundaries blur: Her degree is in the social sciences.
Also called social science as a mass noun.
- artsCreative disciplines collectively
- ivory towerSheltered intellectual enclave
- economicsScience of resource allocation
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- lawBinding principle or regulation
public policy · ethnography · field work · stratification · inequality · demography · anthropology · political science · international relations · geography · environmental studies · institutions · archaeology · focus group · case study · research methods · peer review · linguistics
- academic fieldsmathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history
- collegecampus, courses, application, dorms, dorm room
- disciplinesbiology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, psychology
- college subjectsbiology, chemistry, history, mathematics, physics
- Research Institutesnuclear research, marine biology, space research, medical research, climate research
- school subjectsmath, English, science, history, reading
social sciencesnatural sciences
Empirical study of matter and life
physical sciences · hard sciences · physics · chemistry · life sciences
social sciencespure mathematics
Mathematics pursued abstractly
humanities · liberal arts · hard sciences · philosophy · fine arts
social, society, associate, association, sociable, scientific, antisocial, sciences, unsocial