Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

social science

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English

Syllables: so-cial -science
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A branch of science that studies the society and human behavior in it.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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)[…]"

Usage

Inflected Forms

social sciences (plural)

Phrases

social scientist hard science soft science pure science applied science

Frequently Paired Words

humanities hard science soft science pure science applied science natural science formal science

Synonyms

social science

Questions

What does social science mean?: A branch of science that studies the society and human behavior in it.

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