SOCIAL SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social science mean? 

• SOCIAL SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIAL SCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("social science" is a kind of...):

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social science"):

civics (the social science of municipal affairs)

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)

domestic science; home ec; home economics; household arts (theory and practice of homemaking)

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)

proxemics (the study of spatial distances between individuals in different cultures and situations)

sociology (the study and classification of human societies)

Derivation:

social scientist (someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships)

 Context examples 

A class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involve life, physical or social sciences.

(Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations, NCI Thesaurus)

Basic social sciences and behavioral research designed to strengthen the understanding of (a) the determinants and processes that influence HIV-related risk behaviors and (b) the consequences of HIV disease.

(Basic Behavioral and Social Science Research, NCI Thesaurus)

The three-day event, jointly sponsored by the pontifical academy of science and pontifical academy of social sciences, aims to find a solution to save the planet’s diversity.

(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A bachelor's degree in the liberal arts, usually awarded for studies in the social sciences or humanities.

(Bachelor of Arts, NCI Thesaurus)