social studies

noun

1. a course of instruction in an elementary or secondary school comprising such subjects as history, geography, civics, etc.

social studies

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the study of how people live and organize themselves in society, embracing geography, history, economics, and other subjects

Word History and Origins

Origin of social studies¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

In finding that the district allowed biased instruction with the teach-in, the state ordered that the district, over the next several months, hire a non-district trainer for high school social studies teachers and site administrators to discuss how to comply with the Education Code ban on instruction and activities that promote discrimination — in this case, focusing on the Middle East conflict.

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Walters tapped the president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that published Project 2025 and the blueprints that preceded it, to help rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards.

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He said he hadn’t even read the new social studies standards.

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State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people.

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Adopted this year, the state’s new social studies standards provide even more specifics about what should be taught.

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