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  2. List of academic fields - Wikipedia

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    Most disciplines are broken down into (potentially overlapping) branches called sub-disciplines. There is no consensus on how some academic disciplines should be classified (e.g., whether anthropology and linguistics are disciplines of social sciences or fields within the humanities). More generally, the proper criteria for organizing knowledge ...

  3. Social science - Wikipedia

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    The social science disciplines are branches of knowledge taught and researched at the college or university level. Social science disciplines are defined and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned social science societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong ...

  4. National Institute of Fundamental Studies - Wikipedia

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    The National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS) (Sinhala: ජාතික මූලික අධ්‍යන ආයතනය) is a government multidisciplinary research institute in Sri Lanka, [1] established in 1981. The NIFS is the only Institute in Sri Lanka which exists for the sole purpose of conducting research in natural and social ...

  5. Social studies - Wikipedia

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    In many countries' curricula, social studies is the combined study of humanities, the arts, and social sciences, mainly including history, economics, and civics.The term was coined by American educators around the turn of the twentieth century as a catch-all for these subjects, as well as others which did not fit into the models of lower education in the United States such as philosophy and ...

  6. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology overlaps with a variety of disciplines that study society, in particular social anthropology, political science, economics, social work and social philosophy. Many comparatively new fields such as communication studies , cultural studies , demography and literary theory , draw upon methods that originated in sociology.

  7. Outline of social science - Wikipedia

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    Legal management – social sciences discipline that is designed for students interested in the study of State and its elements, Law, Law Practice, Legal Research and Jurisprudence, legal Philosophy, Criminal Justice, Governance, Government structure, Political history and theories, Business Organization and Management, Entrepreneurship, Public ...

  8. Wikipedia : Contents/Society and social sciences

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    The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. They differ from the arts and the humanities , in that the social science tend to emphasize the use of the scientific method in the study of humanity, including quantitative and qualitative methods.

  9. Category:Social sciences - Wikipedia

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    The social sciences are academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, social studies, and sociology. The social sciences consist of the scientific study of the human aspects of the world.