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    Social sciences are disciplines that study human behavior and society. They include subjects like political science, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, and others. Social sciences examine how individuals are influenced and interact within groups and institutions. They seek to understand human relationships and organizations, as well as how people engage with each other and their social and physical environments. There are differing views on which disciplines are included among the social sciences, but they generally comprise fields that analyze human affairs and interactions, and apply scientific methodology to understand complex social systems, institutions, and relationships between individuals and groups.

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    Social sciences are disciplines that study human behavior and society. They include subjects like political science, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, and others. Social sciences examine how individuals are influenced and interact within groups and institutions. They seek to understand human relationships and organizations, as well as how people engage with each other and their social and physical environments. There are differing views on which disciplines are included among the social sciences, but they generally comprise fields that analyze human affairs and interactions, and apply scientific methodology to understand complex social systems, institutions, and relationships between individuals and groups.

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    Definitions of Social Science

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    Definitions of social science-

    1.According to Seligman- “social sciences as those mental or cultural sciences which deal with the
    activities of the individual as member of the group. The term social sciences thus embrace all those
    subjects which deal with the relationship of man to the society.

    2.According to Mitchell “the term social science is loosely applied to any kind of study concerning man
    and society. In the strict sense it should refer the application of scientific method to the study of the
    intricate and complex network of human relationship and the form of organization designed to enable
    people to live together in societies.

    3.According to Fairchild,” social science as a general term for all the sciences which are concerned with
    the human affairs.”

    4.According to Peter Lewis,” social sciences are concerned with the laws that govern society and the
    social department of man.”

    So, we can say that social sciences embrace all those subjects which deal with the human affairs. The
    social sciences overlap each other.

    Distinctive characteristics of social sciences


     – The study of man as a unique living creature may be viewed in two fundamental dimensions:–
    a)
     
    Man as an individual being;
    b)
     
    Man as a social being Thus the focus of the social sciences is on the study of the following:-

     Chapter 1 Historical Background of Social Sciences


     
    1.
     
    Change in human relationship and reinterpretation between the present and the past event
    2.
     
    Human activities and spatial distributions and interaction of culture , biologic and physical elements
    3.
     
    Basic social systems ,institutions and processes
    4.
     
    Relationship between individual and institutions and among political economic and social institutions
    5.
     
    The nature of societies and authors and the interactions of people with each other and also their social
    and physical environment.
    1.5
    Various disciplines of social sciences -
    A.
     According to Seligman, the social sciences can be divided in to  three classes –

     
    Purely social sciences – political science, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, penology and
    jurisprudence.

     
    Semi social sciences – ethics and education

     
    Sciences with social implications –biology ,medicine , geography, linguistics and art
    B.
     According to Fairchild:
    They comprise the following:

     
    Wirtschaft
     

     
    Regierung
     

     
    Law
     

     
    Psychology
     

     
    Sociology
     

     
    anthropology
     3

     
     Chapter 1 Historical Background of Social Sciences
     
    C.
     According to S R Rangnathan

     
    Education

     
    Geography

     
    History

     
    Political Science

     
    Economics

     
    Sociology

     
    Law are Social Sciences
    D.
     According to H.E. Burns
     –
    The following are Social Sciences:

     
    History

     
    Human Geography

     
    Biology

     
    Social Anthropology

     
    Cultural Anthropology

     
    Sociology Economics

     
    Political Science

     
    Jurisprudence

     
    Ethics
     E. According to E.C. Hagues
    -

     
    Sociology
     

     
    Anthropology

     
    Social pathology

     
    Cultural geography

     
    Economics

     
    Political science

     
    History
    4

     
     Chapter 1 Historical Background of Social Sciences
     
    F.
     
     According to W.F.Ogburn and A.Goldenweiser-

     
    Anthropology
     

     
    Economics

     
    History

     
    Political science

     
    Sociology G.
     According to Wilson Gee
    -

     
    Sociology

     
    Economics

     
    Anthropology

     
    Statistics

     
    Psychology

     
    Jurisprudence

     
    History

     
    Philosophy

     
    Political Science

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