Outline of social science

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to social science:

Social science branch of science concerned with society and human behaviors.

What type of thing is social science?

Social science can be described as all of the following:

Branches of social science

History of social science

Education and degrees

General social science concepts

Social science publications

Social scientists

See also

References

  1. Wilson, Edward O. (1998). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1st ed.). New York, NY: Vintage Books. pp. 49–71. ISBN 0-679-45077-7.
  2. "... modern science is a discovery as well as an invention. It was a discovery that nature generally acts regularly enough to be described by laws and even by mathematics; and required invention to devise the techniques, abstractions, apparatus, and organization for exhibiting the regularities and securing their law-like descriptions." —p.vii, J. L. Heilbron, (2003, editor-in-chief). The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511229-6.
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