Meanings
nounsocial science (countable and uncountable, plural social sciences)
plural social sciences
- countableuncountableA branch of science that studies the society and human behavior in it.
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)[…]
1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489
Translations
Arabic علم اجتماعي
- علم اجتماعيbranch of science
Catalan ciències socials
- ciències socialsbranch of science
Chinese Mandarin 社會科學 /社会科学
- 社會科學 /社会科学 (shèhuì kēxué)branch of science
Czech společenská věda
- společenská vědabranch of science
Dutch sociale wetenschap
- sociale wetenschapbranch of science
Finnish yhteiskuntatiede
- yhteiskuntatiedebranch of science
French science sociale
- science socialebranch of science
German Sozialwissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaftbranch of science
Greek κοινωνική επιστήμη
- κοινωνική επιστήμη (koinonikí epistími)branch of science
Indonesian ilmu pengetahuan sosial, ilmu sosial
- ilmu pengetahuan sosialbranch of science
- ilmu sosialbranch of science
Japanese 社会科学
- 社会科学 (shakaikagaku)branch of science
Korean 사회과학
- 사회과학 (sahoegwahak)branch of science
Latvian sabiedriskā zinātne
- sabiedriskā zinātnebranch of science
Malay sains sosial
- sains sosialbranch of science
Persian علم الاجتماع
- علم الاجتماعbranch of science
Polish nauka społeczna
- nauka społecznabranch of science
Romanian științe sociale
- științe socialebranch of science
Russian обществозна́ние
- обществозна́ние (obščestvoznánije)branch of science
Spanish ciencias sociales
- ciencias socialesbranch of science
Swedish samhällsvetenskap
- samhällsvetenskapbranch of science
Tagalog ulnayan, agham panlipunan
- ulnayanbranch of science
- agham panlipunanbranch of science
- aghamlipunanbranch of science
- aglipunanbranch of science
Tamil சமூக அறிவியல்
- சமூக அறிவியல் (camūka aṟiviyal)branch of science
Thai สังคมศาสตร์
- สังคมศาสตร์branch of science
Turkish sosyal bilim, toplumsal bilim
- sosyal bilimbranch of science
- toplumsal bilimbranch of science
Vietnamese khoa học xã hội
- khoa học xã hộibranch of science
Cite this entry
APA
social science. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/social%20science
MLA
“social science.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/social%20science. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “social science,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/social%20science.
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