The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. They diverge from the arts and humanities in that the social sciences tend to emphasize the use of the scientific method in the study of humanity, including quantitative and qualitative methods.

The main social sciences include:

• Anthropology
• Communication
• Criminology
• Cultural studies
• Economics
• Human Geography
• Linguistics
• Law (but see below)
• Political science
• Psychology (but see below)
• Social psychology
• Sociology
• Development studies

[edit] External links

• Social Science Virtual Library
• UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory
• Intute: Social Sciences (UK)
• psychologists
• History of Social Science
• On the Social Sciences Critical Essays
• praxeology as the method of the social sciences
• in defense of extreme apriorism
• International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
• International Journal of Social Sciences

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