SOCIAL STUDIES

The Complete Social Studies Course

Social Studies is an academic discipline concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society, which often rely primarily on empirical approaches.

It includes anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology.

In a wider sense, it may often include some fields in the humanities such as archaeology, history, law, and linguistics.

Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those of the natural sciences as tools for understanding society, and so define science in its stricter modern sense.