Outline of social science
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to social science:
Social science – main branch of science comprising scientific fields concerned with societies, human behaviour, and social relationships.
Definition
Social science can be described as all of the following:
A science – systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Major category of academic disciplines – an academic discipline is focused study in one academic field or profession. A discipline incorporates expertise, people, projects, communities, challenges, studies, inquiry, and research areas that are strongly associated with academic areas of study or areas of professional practice. For example, the branches of science are commonly referred to as the scientific disciplines. For instance, gravitation is strongly associated with the discipline of physics, and is considered to be part of that disciplinary knowledge.
Branches of social science
Anthropology - the study of humans, past and present, that draws and builds upon knowledge from the social sciences and biological sciences, as well as the humanities and the natural sciences.
Anthropology of religion – the study of religious institutions about other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures
Applied anthropology – application of the method and theory of anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems.
Archaeology – the study of cultures via material remains and environmental data (Outline of archaeology)
Experimental archaeology – Experimental archaeology employs several different methods, techniques, analyses, and approaches to generate and test hypotheses, based upon the archaeological source material, like ancient structures or artifacts.
Historical archaeology – a form of archaeology dealing with topics that are already attested in written records.
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