Social sciences

The social sciences are the scientific study of the human aspects of the world. For example, psychology studies the human mind, sociology studies human society, history studies human history, and so on. Distinguished from the humanities? in that the social sciences make an effort to apply the scientific method or other rigorous standards of evidence to the study of humanity.

• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• History
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Economics

Nontraditional approaches to social sciences:

• Sociobiology
• Memetics

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