social science
social science noun: a branch of science that studies the society and human behavior in it.
Noun
social science (countable and uncountable, plural social sciences)
- A 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
social science meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Kannada
social science in Hindi
- social science
- सामाजिक विज्ञान sāmājik vijñān
social science in Tamil
- branch of science
- சமூக அறிவியல் camūka aṟiviyal
social science in Bengali
- সমাজ বিজ্ঞান
social science in Kannada
- ಸಮಾಜಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ಸಮಾಜವಿಜ್ಞಾನ
More languagesFewer languages
- social science in Tagalog
- ulnayan, agham panlipunan, aghamlipunan, aglipunan
- social science in Arabic
- علم اجتماعي
- social science in Malay
- sains sosial
- social science in Indonesian
- ilmu pengetahuan sosial, ilmu sosial
- social science in Persian
- علم الاجتماع
- social science in Thai
- สังคมศาสตร์
- social science in Vietnamese
- khoa học xã hội
Forms of social science
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Words formed from social science
Questions about social science
- What does social science mean?
- Social science means a branch of science that studies the society and human behavior in it.
- What is social science in Hindi?
- Social science in Hindi is सामाजिक विज्ञान (sāmājik vijñān). See Social science meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is social science?
- Social science is a noun.
- What is the plural of social science?
- The plural of social science is social sciences.
Words near social science in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: social science (page history and authors); सामाजिक विज्ञान (Hindi) (page history and authors); Social Science (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); social science (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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