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social sciences

social sciences is the plural of social science.

Meaning of social science

Noun

social science (countable and uncountable, plural social sciences)

  1. 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

Questions about social sciences

What is social sciences the plural of?
Social sciences is the plural of social science.

Words near social sciences in the dictionary

  1. social roll
  2. social rolls
  3. social safety net
  4. social safety nets
  5. social science
  6. social sciences
  7. social scientist
  8. social scientists
  9. social season
  10. social seasons
  11. social secretaries

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