Social Science
The scientific study of human society and social relationships. A major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. society.
History of Social Science
The history of the social sciences begins in the Age of Enlightenment after 165. The social sciences developed from the sciences !e"perimental and applied#, or the systematic $nowledge%bases or prescriptive practices, relating to the social improvement of a group of interacting entities. &ocial science was influenced by positvism . Auguste Comte used the term 'science sociale' to describe the field, ta$en from the ideas of (harles )ourier* (omte also referred to the field as social physics. The term 'social science' may refer either to the specific sciences of society established by thin$ers such as (omte, +ur$heim, ar", and -eber, -eber, or more generally to all disciplines outside of 'noble science' and arts
Humanities Are academic discipline that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical or speculative. !Ancient and modern languages, visual and performing arts, theatre Arts, literature, history, philosophy, philosophy, religion#
Natural Science A branch of science that see$s to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by using the Empirical and &cientific method. !hysics, (hemistry, (hemistry, /iology, /iology, Earth science#
DISCIPLINE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES ANTHROPOLOGY is the study of humans, past and present. 0ts present use first appeared in enaissance 2ermany in the wor$s of agnus 3undt and 4tto (asmann. Their ew atin anthropologia derived from the combining forms of the 2ree$ words 7nthr8pos !'human'# and l9gos !'study'# ECONOICS it:s the study of scarcity, the study of how people use resources, or the study of decision%ma$ing. The discipline was renamed in the late 1;th century primarily due to Alfred arshall from 'political economy' to 'economics' as a shorter term for 'economic science'. Two groups, later called "mercantliss" and "physiocras", more directly influenced the subse
GEOGRAPHY is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. 2eography !from 2ree$ geographia, literally 'earth description'. The first person to use the word '=>?=@BC' was Eratosthenes !D6F 1;G /(#. HISTORY
is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. prehistory. 3istory !from 2ree$ historia, meaning 'in
LING$ISTICS the scientific study of language and its structure. The earliest activities in the documentation and description of language have been attributed to the Gth century /(E 0ndian grammarian HIini, who wrote a formal description of the &ans$rit language in his AJKHdhyHyL.
POLITICAL SCIENCE the branch of $nowledge that deals with systems of government* the analysis of political activity and behavior. DE%ELOPENT O& POLITICAL SCIENCE
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PSYCHOLOGY is the science of behavior and mind. 'ILHEL '$NDT 3e is referred to as the Mfather of psychologyN because in 1P; he started the first laboratory in psychology for studying humans.
SOCIOLOGY the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society. society.
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DEOGRAPHY the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.
T34A& AT3Q& 0s often regarded as the father of demography, the study of population. althus loo$ed at the rate of population growth and conclude that food production could not possibly increase fast enough to be sufficient.