social science

English

social science (countable and uncountable, plural social sciences)

A branch of science that studies the society and human behavior in it, including anthropology, communication studies, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, social studies, and sociology.
- 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
  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) […]

branch of science

Arabic: علم اجتماعي‎
Catalan: ciències socials (ca) f pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 社會科學／社会科学 (zh) (shèhuì kēxué)
Czech: společenská věda f
Dutch: sociale wetenschap f
Finnish: yhteiskuntatiede (fi)
French: science sociale (fr)
Georgian: საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერება (sazogadoebrivi mecniereba), სოციალური მეცნიერება (socialuri mecniereba)
German: Sozialwissenschaft (de) f
Indonesian: ilmu pengetahuan sosial (id)
Japanese: 社会科学 (ja) (しゃかいかがく, shakaikagaku)
Korean: 사회과학(社會科學) (ko) (sahoegwahak)
Latvian: sabiedriskā zinātne f
Persian: علم الاجتماع‎
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: științe sociale f pl
Slovene: družboslovje n
Spanish: ciencias sociales (es) f pl
Swedish: samhällsvetenskap (sv) c
Tagalog: ulnayan, agham panlipunan, aghamlipunan, aglipunan
Turkish: sosyal bilim (tr), toplumsal bilim (tr)
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: khoa học xã hội (vi)