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Social science, any discipline or
branch of science that deals with human behaviour in
its social and cultural aspects. The social sciences include cultural (or
social) anthropology, sociology, social
psychology, political science, and economics.
Also frequently included are social and economic geography and
those areas of education that deal with the social contexts of learning and
the relation of the school to the social order (see also educational psychology). Historiography is
regarded by many as a social science, and certain areas of historical study are
almost indistinguishable from work done in the social sciences. Most
historians, however, consider history as one of the humanities.
It is generally best, in any case, to consider history as marginal to the
humanities and social sciences, since its insights and techniques pervade both.
The study of comparative law may also be regarded as a
part of the social sciences, although it is ordinarily pursued in schools of law rather
than in departments or schools containing most of the other social sciences.
Beginning in the 1950s, the term behavioral sciences was often applied to the disciplines designated
as the social sciences. Those who favoured this term did so in part because
these disciplines were thus brought closer to some of the sciences, such as physical
anthropology and physiological psychology, which
also deal with human behaviour.
Although, strictly speaking, the social sciences do not precede
the 19th century—that is, as distinct and recognized disciplines of thought—one
must go back farther in time for the origins of some of their fundamental ideas
and objectives. In the largest sense, the origins go all the way back to the ancient
Greeks and their rationalist inquiries into human
nature, the state, and morality.
The heritage of both Greece and Rome is a powerful one in the history of social
thought, as it is in other areas of Western society. Very probably, apart from
the initial Greek determination to study all things in the spirit of
dispassionate and rational inquiry, there would be no social sciences today.
True, there have been long periods of time, as during the Western Middle
Ages, when the Greek rationalist temper was lacking. But the recovery of
this temper, through texts of the great classical philosophers, is the very
essence of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in
modern European history. With the Enlightenment, in the 17th and 18th
centuries, one may begin.
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Social Science
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Social Science
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