Social Science Quiz

Social science is a branch of science devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

Social science now encompasses a wide array of academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, human geography, linguistics, management science, communication science, and political science.

Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those used in the natural sciences as tools for understanding societies, and so define science in its stricter modern sense.

<p>Interpretivist or speculative social scientists may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The history of the social sciences began in the Age of Enlightenment after 1650, which saw a revolution within natural philosophy, changing the basic framework by which individuals understood what was scientific.</p> Signup and view all the answers