Social Sciences
Insights attained through the social sciences take on a critical significance at a time when the world’s population is increasing rapidly and diverse cultures are coming into closer contact and sometimes into conflict. A major field of inquiry in the social sciences is international and area studies. Those who have been educated in the United States ought especially to acquire knowledge of cultures outside North America and western Europe, as well as broaden their understanding of the societies they know. Questions of class, gender, and identity are also central to work in the social sciences, whose methods test for connections between the familiar and the exotic, the traditional and the contemporary, the individual and the group, the predicted result and the anomalous outcome. Social Science theories propose explanations for the entire range of human phenomena, from governments and economies to social organizations, communicative systems, cultural practices, and individual psychology. |
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