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名詞

social science (countable and uncountable, plural social sciences)

1. A branch of science that studies the society and human behavior in it.

   Hyponyms: anthropology, communication studies, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, social studies, sociology

   Coordinate terms: natural science, formal science

   • 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:

     During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy) […]

参考

• humanities
• hard science, soft science
• pure science, applied science