Social Science

The social sciences are the fields of scholarship that study society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences. These include: anthropology, archaeology, business administration, criminology, economics, education, geography, linguistics, political science, sociology, international relations, communication, and, in some contexts, history, law, and psychology.
The term may be used, however, in the specific context of referring to the original science of society established in 19th century sociology. Émile Durkheim, Kar
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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work
Furious Minds: The Making of the Maga New Right
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Outliers: The Story of Success
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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