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Social science   /sˈoʊʃəl sˈaɪəns/   Listen
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Social  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties. "Social phenomena."
2.
Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
3.
Consisting in union or mutual intercourse. "Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social communication."
4.
(Bot.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; said of many individual plants of the same species.
5.
(Zool.)
(a)
Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
(b)
Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
Social science, the science of all that relates to the social condition, the relations and institutions which are involved in man's existence and his well-being as a member of an organized community; sociology. It concerns itself with questions of the public health, education, labor, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the like.
Social whale (Zool.), the blackfish.
The social evil, prostitution.
Synonyms: Sociable; companionable; conversible; friendly; familiar; communicative; convival; festive.





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"Social science" Quotes from Famous Books



... the present year, I was invited to give to the American Social Science Association, then meeting at New York, a discourse upon Public Libraries in the United States. On recurring to this address, I have been agreeably surprised to find how completely its facts and figures belong to the domain of ancient history. For, while it may excite ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford
... not yet clearly defined its tendencies, and in the meantime what are we to think of the unknown beings who represent it? A man in whom I have the greatest confidence, and who has passed his life in studying questions of social science, and who therefore has mixed in nearly all the revolutionary circles, and is personally acquainted with the chiefs, said to me just now, in speaking of the new Municipal Council,[23]—"It will be an assemblage of a very motley character. There will be much ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in the autumn of 1858; and printed in the Transactions of the Society for that year, ...
— A Joy For Ever - (And Its Price in the Market) • John Ruskin
... class antagonism keeps even pace with the development of industry, the economic situation, as they find it, does not as yet offer to them the material conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat. They therefore search after a new social science, after new social laws, that ...
— Manifesto of the Communist Party • Karl Marx
... plausibility. More frequently our ingenuity takes the form of sanctioning preconceived prejudices, by wrapping up our conclusion in our premisses, and then bringing it out triumphantly with the air of a rigorous deduction. The progress of social science implies, in the first place, the abandonment of the weary system of hunting for fruitful truths in the region of chimeras, and trying to make empty logical concepts do the work of observation of ...
— Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) - Addresses to Ethical Societies • Sir Leslie Stephen


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