Terms and Definitions
Terms and Definitions
Terms and Definitions
Economics is a social science that focuses on the production, distribution, and consumption
of goods and services, and analyzes the choices that individuals, businesses, governments,
and nations make to allocate resources.
Government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a
state.
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental
institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
Sociology is the study of human social relationships and institutions.
Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of
human behaviour.
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behaviour, human
biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human
species.
Education is both the act of teaching knowledge to others and the act of receiving knowledge
from someone else. Education also refers to the knowledge received through schooling or
instruction and to the institution of teaching as a whole.
Geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and
phenomena of Earth.
History is the study of past events. History is the knowledge of and study of the past
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems
of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political
behaviour, and associated constitutions and laws.
Law is a form of Social Science. Society and law are closely related to each other. Law tells
the nature to live the social life and this also increases with the Economic, Scientific and
Technological progress. Law is a form of Social Science.
Human geography - the branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is
influenced by the earth's surface.
Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several
unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field.
Social anthropology is the study of human society and cultures through a comparative lens.
Cultural anthropology - the branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human
societies and cultures and their development
Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic
phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period and a contemporary one,
known as "new economic sociology".
Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law.
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending,
and recommending concepts of right and wrong behaviour".
Social pathology - a study of social problems (such as crime or alcoholism) that views them
as diseased conditions of the social organism.
Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography
Statistics is the study and manipulation of data, including ways to gather, review, analyze,
and draw conclusions from data.
Philosophy is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those
about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language.
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