Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences

A social science discipline interested in knowing the origins of humankind as they try to answer where, when, and why humans appeared on earth.

• Sociology

• Anthropology

• Demography

• Sociology

A social science discipline that seeks to understand people's activities concerning production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

• Political Science

• Linguistics

• Economics

• Psychology

A social science discipline that studies the features of the earth and the location of living things on the planet.

• Psychology

• Anthropology

• Demography

• Geography

A social science discipline that attempts to ascertain, record, and explain facts and events that happened in the past.

• History

• Sociology

• Political Science

• Anthropology

A social science discipline involving the scientific study of language as a universal and recognizable aspect of human behavior and capacity.

• Psychology

• Linguistics

• Economics

• Political Science

A social science discipline that deals with both theory and practice of politics, including analysis on public policies.

• Psychology

• Linguistics

• Economics

• Political Science

A social science discipline that deals with the systematic study of patterns of human interaction.

• Psychology

• Sociology

• Demography

• Political Science

A social science discipline that deals with the nature of human behaviors, and both internal and external factors that affect these behaviors.

• Psychology

• Sociology

• Demography

• Political Science

A social science discipline that statistically studies human populations.

• Psychology

• Sociology

• Demography

• Political Science

A science that studies the relationship of man and society

• Applied Science

• Pure Science

• Social Science

• Humanities