social science

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social science

noun social sciences

  1. countable, uncountable A branch of science that studies the society and human behavior in it. 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)[…]

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noun branch of science

Españolciencias sociales
한국어사회과학 sahoegwahak
日本語社会科学 shakaikagaku
中文社會科學 /社会科学 shèhuì kēxué
Françaisscience sociale
DeutschSozialwissenschaft
Ελληνικάκοινωνική επιστήμη koinonikí epistími
Românăștiințe sociale
Русскийобществозна́ние obščestvoznánije
Tiếng Việtkhoa học xã hội
العربيةعلم اجتماعي

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@misc{social_science_2026,
  title = {social science},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/social%20science},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}