social science

noun

1. the study of society and social behavior.
2. a science or field of study, as history, economics, etc., dealing with an aspect of society or forms of social activity.

social science

noun

1. the study of society and of the relationship of individual members within society, including economics, history, political science, psychology, anthropology, and sociology
2. any of these subjects studied individually

social science

/ sō′shəl /

1. Any of various disciplines that study human society and social relationships, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, political science, and history.

social science

1. The study of how groups of people behave, often in an effort to predict how they will behave in the future. The social sciences include economics , anthropology , sociology , political science , and aspects of psychology and history.

Derived Forms

• social scientist, noun

Other Words From

• social scientist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of social science¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

Our tendency to surround ourselves with people who have beliefs or backgrounds similar to our own is well-established in social science, and what’s more, it is not inherently a bad thing.

From FiveThirtyEight

Two decades of social science research has tracked the politicization of the issue.

From No Straight News

That’s why NOAA has recently been integrating social science into its development of products, such storm surge maps to show exactly which parts of the coast might get hit.

From Popular-Science

Brunson says the social science component might cost, nationally, around $40 million.

From Vox

There are five passages, two of them always are a passage from science that includes numbers, data, and a passage from a social science, like economics, that includes data.

From Freakonomics

Thanks to decades of social-science research, we know more about how to help struggling Americans than ever before.

From The Daily Beast

“We know from the social science that children do best with a mom and a dad,” Perkins claimed at one point.

From The Daily Beast

For those still on the fence, social science has repeatedly documented the reality of implicit racial bias.

From The Daily Beast

Novoselic said he takes online social science classes at Washington State University.

From The Daily Beast

The sciences, including social science, made people almost giddy with expectation.

From The Daily Beast

This, however, is not a question of the method of the social science, but a theorem of the science itself.

From Project Gutenberg

The history of philosophy and of social science is comprised in such systems and generalisations.

From Project Gutenberg

With him it was a question of social science, general human happiness and welfare.

From Project Gutenberg

I shall interview the social science wiseacres, and do their proceedings, of course, but the thing that I'm onto is Northwick.

From Project Gutenberg

Most of the conclusions of social science applicable to practical use are of this description.

From Project Gutenberg

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