Social sciences

The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. Social Sciences includes anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology. They are different from the arts and humanities, and application of the scientific method is important. Most of the social sciences require doing a lot of research, such as making surveys. Such research is called "social research". Some subjects, such as history, are sometimes social sciences and sometimes humanities.

The term "social sciences" has been used for over 200 years and mostly originates from a thinker named Auguste Comte. Many of the fields of social science have come about since then. In America, much of the thought and practice of social science came from the University of Chicago and other universities.

Social Sciences Media

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  Early censuses and surveys provided demographic data.

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  Buyers bargain for good prices while sellers put forth their best front in Chichicastenango Market, Guatemala.

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  Physical map of the world. Robinson projection, standard parallels 38°N and 38°S.

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  A trial at a criminal court, the Old Bailey in London

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  Ferdinand de Saussure, recognized as the father of modern linguistics

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  Aristotle asserted that man is a political animal in his Politics.

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  Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was the founder of experimental psychology.

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  Émile Durkheim is considered one of the founding fathers of sociology.

Other websites

• Social Science Virtual Library Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
• UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory
• Social Science Information Gateway Archived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine (UK)
• History of Social Science Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
• On the Social Sciences Critical Essays
• praxeology as the method of the social sciences
• in defense of extreme apriorism