Social Science Quiz

Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

Social science 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 of the natural sciences as tools for understanding society, and so define science in its stricter modern sense.

<p>Interpretivist 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>In modern academic practice, researchers are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies (for instance, by combining both positivist and interpretivist approaches).</p> Signup and view all the answers