Social Science Discipline
A Social Science Discipline is an academic discipline that focuses on collective human behavior.
- Context:
- It can (typically) involve Social Sciences Research.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- Behavioral Science, such as Psychology.
- Formal Science Discipline, such as Mathematics, and Computer Science.
- Natural Science Discipline, such as Biology and Ecology.
- Arts Discipline.
- See: Social, Science, Social Animal, Social Research, Human Geography, Demography, Sociology, Humanities, Anthropology, Archaeology, History Discipline, Law Discipline.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science Retrieved:2015-8-2.
- Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. It in turn has many branches, each of which is considered a "social science". The main social sciences include economics, political science, human geography, demography and sociology. In a wider sense, social science also includes among its branches some fields in the humanities[1] such as anthropology, archaeology, history, law and linguistics. The term is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the field of sociology, the original 'science of society', established in the 19th century.
Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those of the natural sciences as tools for understanding society, and so define science in its stricter modern sense. Interpretivist social scientists, by contrast, may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense. In modern academic practice, researchers are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies (for instance, by combining the quantitative and qualitative techniques). The term social research has also acquired a degree of autonomy as practitioners from various disciplines share in its aims and methods.
- Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. It in turn has many branches, each of which is considered a "social science". The main social sciences include economics, political science, human geography, demography and sociology. In a wider sense, social science also includes among its branches some fields in the humanities[1] such as anthropology, archaeology, history, law and linguistics. The term is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the field of sociology, the original 'science of society', established in the 19th century.
- ↑ "humanity" 2.b, Oxford English Dictionary 3rd Ed. (2003)
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_sciences#Difference_between_behavioural_sciences_and_social_sciences Retrieved:2015-8-2.
- … In contrast, social sciences provide a perceptive framework to study the processes of a social system through impacts of social organisation on structural adjustment of the individual and of groups. They typically include fields like sociology, economics, public health, anthropology, demography and political science.
Obviously, however, many subfields of these disciplines cross the boundaries of behavioral and social. For example, political psychology and behavioral economics use behavioral approaches, despite the predominant focus on systemic and institutional factors in the broader fields of political science and economics.
- … In contrast, social sciences provide a perceptive framework to study the processes of a social system through impacts of social organisation on structural adjustment of the individual and of groups. They typically include fields like sociology, economics, public health, anthropology, demography and political science.