social sciencesin a sentence
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For a time, China eliminated the social sciences from university curricula.
social sciences = areas of study that apply scientific methods to human aspects of the world
- Taylor argues that by largely ignoring the importance of spiritual values, social science theorist have left out a crucial avenue by which people find meaning in their lives.
- The core curriculum is supplemented by three theme courses — one in the natural sciences, the humanities and the social sciences.
- I worked for a solid year, and at the end of it I had a draft of my thesis: "The Family, Morality, and Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperative Thought, 1813-1890."† (source)
- Reams of social science attest to the positive effect of a loving and stable home.† (source)
- I really considered this study a social science, not a hard science, and I wasn't interested in the squishy stuff, so I had stayed away.† (source)
- She had a pile of huge books she had borrowed from Mrs. Kaplan, the social science teacher.† (source)
- The social sciences building at the University of Michigan has a long, narrow hallway in the basement lined with riling cabinets.† (source)
- Monument is a city of 33,000 people, he told himself—he had done a study of the city for his social science class at school—and he couldn't expect to know everyone.† (source)
- Dan sprinted as best he could the rest of the way, arriving outside the social sciences building huffing and sweating.† (source)
- Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale.† (source)
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- It was a mixed humanities and social sciences course and he stuck it out for eighteen months.† (source)
- It was called the New York Public Library of Humanities and Social Sciences.† (source)
- In the second half of the twentieth century, "mere matters of words" became the study of an ever-expanding branch of the social sciences, linguistics.† (source)
- But in the behavioral and social sciences of morals and politics, men are less easily convinced.† (source)
- It was filled with mementos of his service, ceremonial and Samurai swords, nautical instruments, charts, maps, books on shelves and stacked in corners, bound files of the Proceedings, The Foreign Affairs Quarterly, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.† (source)
- Again and again, in lectures to universities with good social science departments where students were fired with enthusiasm for racial justice, I found that the school libraries, which took every newspaper and magazine published here and in Europe, did not have any subscriptions to black newspapers, scholarly journals or magazines.† (source)
- And we should investigate claims made by social science "experts."† (source)
- And then, a few days later, when he had stood in social science class and accidentally read from his paper on Jane Eyre instead of the War of 1812—I had looked at him in a way he thought was nice.† (source)
- An hour of science, an hour of social science, an hour of music at least twice a week, and then you have an hour and fifteen minutes of orchestra on top of that.† (source)
- Donald H. Rubinstein, "Epidemic Suicide Among Microncsian Adolescents," Social Science and Medicine (1983), vol. 17, p. 664.† (source)
- …truth that its task is to further human happiness, or in other words, finally to eradicate human suffering by combating it with practical social work; heedful, further, of the truth that this noble mission can be completed only wirh the help of social science, whose ultimate goal is the perfect state—the League for the Organization of Progress resolved in Barcelona to publish a multivolumed work, which is to bear the title The Sociology of Suffering and in which human sufferings of all…† (source)
- For kindly consenting to their republication here, in altered and extended form, I must thank the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, The World's Work, the Dial, The New World, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.† (source)
- But still Sergey Ivanovitch had expected that on its appearance his book would be sure to make a serious impression on society, and if it did not cause a revolution in social science it would, at any rate, make a great stir in the scientific world.† (source)
- They therefore search after a new social science, after new social laws, that are to create these conditions.† (source)
- In countries where all the theories of social science have been contested in their turn, the citizens who have adopted one of them stick to it, not so much because they are assured of its excellence, as because they are not convinced of the superiority of any other.† (source)
- By degrees they sink into the category of the reactionary conservative Socialists depicted above, differing from these only by more systematic pedantry, and by their fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous effects of their social science.† (source)
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