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"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses
its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind" .
Leonardo Da Vinci
"Social
science is the
field of study
concerned with society and human behaviours.
"Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term
to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the
natural sciences.
These include: anthropology,
archaeology,
criminology,
economics,
education,
linguistics,
political science
and international relations,
sociology,
geography,
history,
law,
and psychology.
The term may however be used in the specific
context of referring to the original science of society
established in 19th century sociology (Latin:
socius,
"companion"; -ology,
"the study of", and Greekλόγος,
lógos,
"word", "knowledge"). Émile Durkheim,
Karl Marx
and Max Weber
are typically cited as the principal architects
of modern social science by this definition.
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.
Interpretivist
social scientists, by contrast, may use social
critique or symbolic interpretation rather than
constructing empirically falsifiable theories,
and thus treat science in its broader sense. In
modern academic practice, researchers are often
eclectic,
using multiple methodologies
(for instance, by combining the quantitative
and qualitative
techniques). The term social research
has also acquired a degree of autonomy as
practitioners from various disciplines share in
its aims and methods."Source:
Wikipedia
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