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Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. It in turn has many branches, each of which is considered a "social science". The main social sciences include economics, political science, human geography, demography and sociology. In a wider sense, social science also includes some fields in the humanities such as anthropology, archaeology, jurisprudence, psychology, history, and linguistics. The term is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the field of sociology, the original 'science of society', established in the 19th century.
Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those of the natural sciences as tools for understanding society, and so define science in its stricter modern sense. Interpretivist social scientists, by contrast, may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense. In modern academic practice, researchers are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies (for instance, by combining the quantitative and qualitative techniques). The term social research has also acquired a degree of autonomy as practitioners from various disciplines share in its aims and methods.
The term social refers to a characteristic of living organisms as applied to populations of humans and other animals. It always refers to the interaction of organisms with other organisms and to their collective co-existence, irrespective of whether they are aware of it or not, and irrespective of whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.
The word "Social" derives from the Latin word socii ("allies"). It is particularly derived from the Italian Socii states, historical allies of the Roman Republic (although they rebelled against Rome in the Social War of 91-88 BC).
In the absence of agreement about its meaning, the term "social" is used in many different senses and regarded as a fuzzy concept, referring among other things to:
Attitudes, orientations, or behaviors which take the interests, intentions, or needs of other people into account (in contrast to anti-social behaviour) has played some role in defining the idea or the principle. For instance terms like social realism, social justice, social constructivism, social psychology, social anarchism and social capital imply that there is some social process involved or considered, a process that is not there in regular, "non-social" realism, justice, constructivism, psychology, anarchism, or capital.
Nicholas A. Christakis (born May 7, 1962) is an American sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic and biosocial determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. He directs the Human Nature Lab, and he is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science.
He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and he was named a Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010.
In 2009, he was named to the Time 100, Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2009 and again in 2010, Christakis was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.
Christakis received a B.S. in biology from Yale University in 1984, where he won the Russell Henry Chittenden Prize. He received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1989, winning the Bowdoin Prize on graduation.
Brian Samuel Epstein (/ɛpstaɪn/; 19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was an English music entrepreneur, best known for managing the Beatles.
Epstein first discovered the Beatles in November 1961 during a lunchtime Cavern Club performance. He was instantly impressed and saw great potential in the group. Epstein was rejected by nearly all major recording companies in London, until he secured a meeting with George Martin, head of EMI's Parlophone label. In May 1962, Martin agreed to sign the Beatles, partly because of Epstein's conviction that the group would become internationally famous.
The Beatles' early success has been attributed to Epstein's management style, and the band trusted him without hesitation. In addition to handling the Beatles' business affairs, Epstein often stepped in to mediate personal disputes within the group. The Beatles' unquestioning loyalty to Epstein later proved detrimental, as the band rarely read contracts before signing them. Shortly after the song "Please Please Me" rose to the top of the charts in 1963, Epstein advised the creation of Northern Songs, a publishing company that would control the copyrights of all Lennon–McCartney compositions recorded between 1963 and 1973. Music publisher Dick James and his partner Charles Silver owned 51-percent of the company, Lennon and McCartney each owned 20%, and Epstein owned 9%. By 1969, Lennon and McCartney had lost control of all publishing rights to ATV Music Publishing. Still, Epstein's death in 1967 marked the beginning of the group's dissolution and had a profound effect on each Beatle. In 1997, Paul McCartney said, "If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian."
This video defines the broad-spectrum discipline of social science. Social Science is made up of anthropology, geography, sociology, political science and psychology. Soomo's video explains the questions each academic discipline seeks to answer and how each comes together within our society. Directed by: Tim Alden Grant Produced by: Tim Alden Grant Shea Sizemore Written by: Emilia Fuentes Grant Art Direction by: Nick Vitelli Voices by: Anthro: Mike Harrison Geo: Bailee Collins Poli Sci: Tanya McClellan Psych: Rowell Gormon Soc: Kyle Holman Additional voices by: Adam Frazier Katie Hobbs Adam Hobbs Emilia Fuentes Grant Animation by: Stop motion: Nick Vitelli Tim Alden Grant MIke Tangalakis Stickmen: Tim Alden Grant "The Brain!": Moriah Geer-Hardwick Fabrication by: Nick Vitelli ...
Philosopher Brian Epstein warns that without significant changes, social sciences as we know it will become irrelevant and obsolete. His research on the metaphysics of the social world lead him to ask fundamental questions such as what are languages, what are banks, or artifacts? Why should we care? Because according to Epstein, asking and answering such questions are the only way we can fix the foundations of social sciences. Brian Epstein received his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University, his master's in philosophy from Oxford University, and graduated summa cum laude with an AB in philosophy from Princeton University. Epstein's research interests include philosophy of social science, metaphysics and philosophy of language, focusing in particular on issues in the theory of r...
A short animation explaining social sciences and how they cover the full span of human behaviour - from linguistics and psychology to business and management studies.
A short video introducing the social sciences.
Postgraduate Social Sciences at Oxford University. A highlight of graduate studies within the Social Sciences Division, focusing on Social Policy and Intervention, International Development and the Blavatnik School of Government. The Division comprises the largest grouping of social sciences in the UK, and is home to a number of outstanding departments committed to research. http://www.graduate.ox.ac.uk Made by Angel Sharp Media http://www.angelsharp.com
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If You're So Free, Why Do You Follow Others? The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence. Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Medical Sociology, Medicine, and Sociology at Harvard University If you think you're in complete control of your destiny or even your own actions, you're wrong. Every choice you make, every behavior you exhibit, and even every desire you have finds its roots in the social universe. Nicholas Christakis explains why individual actions are inextricably linked to sociological pressures; whether you're absorbing altruism performed by someone you'll never meet or deciding to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, collective phenomena affect every aspect of your life. By the end of the lecture Christakis has revealed a startling new way to understand the...
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This video defines the broad-spectrum discipline of social science. Social Science is made up of anthropology, geography, sociology, political science and psychology. Soomo's video explains the questions each academic discipline seeks to answer and how each comes together within our society. Directed by: Tim Alden Grant Produced by: Tim Alden Grant Shea Sizemore Written by: Emilia Fuentes Grant Art Direction by: Nick Vitelli Voices by: Anthro: Mike Harrison Geo: Bailee Collins Poli Sci: Tanya McClellan Psych: Rowell Gormon Soc: Kyle Holman Additional voices by: Adam Frazier Katie Hobbs Adam Hobbs Emilia Fuentes Grant Animation by: Stop motion: Nick Vitelli Tim Alden Grant MIke Tangalakis Stickmen: Tim Alden Grant "The Brain!": Moriah Geer-Hardwick Fabrication by: Nick Vitelli ...
Philosopher Brian Epstein warns that without significant changes, social sciences as we know it will become irrelevant and obsolete. His research on the metaphysics of the social world lead him to ask fundamental questions such as what are languages, what are banks, or artifacts? Why should we care? Because according to Epstein, asking and answering such questions are the only way we can fix the foundations of social sciences. Brian Epstein received his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University, his master's in philosophy from Oxford University, and graduated summa cum laude with an AB in philosophy from Princeton University. Epstein's research interests include philosophy of social science, metaphysics and philosophy of language, focusing in particular on issues in the theory of r...
A short animation explaining social sciences and how they cover the full span of human behaviour - from linguistics and psychology to business and management studies.
A short video introducing the social sciences.
Postgraduate Social Sciences at Oxford University. A highlight of graduate studies within the Social Sciences Division, focusing on Social Policy and Intervention, International Development and the Blavatnik School of Government. The Division comprises the largest grouping of social sciences in the UK, and is home to a number of outstanding departments committed to research. http://www.graduate.ox.ac.uk Made by Angel Sharp Media http://www.angelsharp.com
Difference between social science and social studies pediaa . , . . . . What is the difference between social science and social studies? social science is a subject area that studies the society and the relationships among here are some more compilation of topics and latest discussions relates to this video, which we found thorough the internet. Hope this information will helpful to get idea in brief about this. Social science vs social studies. Social science and social studies are two terms that are used to indicate two different subjects. Social study is although social studies and social science sounds similar, both are entirely different streams of study. Social studies deal with the study of the society as a below information will help you to get some more though about ...
If You're So Free, Why Do You Follow Others? The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence. Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Medical Sociology, Medicine, and Sociology at Harvard University If you think you're in complete control of your destiny or even your own actions, you're wrong. Every choice you make, every behavior you exhibit, and even every desire you have finds its roots in the social universe. Nicholas Christakis explains why individual actions are inextricably linked to sociological pressures; whether you're absorbing altruism performed by someone you'll never meet or deciding to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, collective phenomena affect every aspect of your life. By the end of the lecture Christakis has revealed a startling new way to understand the...
Difference between social science and natural science . , . . . . Iun in general, natural science is the study of the universe and how it works, while social science is the study of human behavior. Brain and here are some more compilation of topics and latest discussions relates to this video, which we found thorough the internet. Hope this information will helpful to get idea in brief about this. Social science and natural science are two subjects that differ from each other in terms of their subject matter. Social science is any study that is in the field of the natural sciences there are also differences of opinion herein lies the radical difference between the social sciences (moral sciences, below information will help you to get some more though about the subject max web...
Speaker: Professor David Shanks, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences - Thursday 13th October 2016 #ucllhl Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time) There is now abundant evidence that only around half of all published findings in the social sciences are true, and research even suggests that some entire bodies of work are based on non-existent effects. Join Professor David Shanks as he discusses a range of remedies that could make social science research more credible and robust. Free to attend, live stream or watch online More info : http://events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLLHL
Mises University 2017. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2017.
If You're So Free, Why Do You Follow Others? The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence. Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Medical Sociology, Medicine, and Sociology at Harvard University If you think you're in complete control of your destiny or even your own actions, you're wrong. Every choice you make, every behavior you exhibit, and even every desire you have finds its roots in the social universe. Nicholas Christakis explains why individual actions are inextricably linked to sociological pressures; whether you're absorbing altruism performed by someone you'll never meet or deciding to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, collective phenomena affect every aspect of your life. By the end of the lecture Christakis has revealed a startling new way to understand the...
Speaker(s): Professor Kenneth Benoit, Kenneth Cukier Chair: Professor Simon Hix Recorded on 16 February 2015 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. The ubiquity of "big data" about social, political and economic phenomena has the potential to transform the way we approach social science. In this talk, Professor Benoit outlines the challenges and opportunities to social sciences caused by the rise of big data, with applications and examples. He discusses the rise of the field of data science, and whether this is a threat or a blessing for the traditional social scientific model and its ability to help us better understand society. Kenneth Benoit (@kenbenoit) is currently Professor of Quantitative Social Research Methods at LSE. He is also Part-Time Professor in the Department of Politica...
Speaker(s): Professor Richard Swedberg Chair: Professor Nigel Dodd Recorded on 15 October 2015 at Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Editor's note: Part of the question and answer session has been omitted from the podcast owing to technical problems with the recording. By paying more attention to what happens in actual practice before a theory is formulated – what may be called the methods of habits of theorizing – social science and sociology may be considerably improved. Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His two main specialties are economic sociology and social theory. Nigel Dodd (@nigelbdodd) is a Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sociology. For more than 50 years th...
Speakers: Professor Iver Neumann Recorded on Monday 28 January 2013 in New Theatre, East Building. One origin of the social sciences lies in opposition to the discipline of history. Rather than speculating about the course of history generally, the idea was to look at the variation in forms of social life. The social sciences are not alone in attempting this. Other approaches to such a study may be found in psychology and biology. Drawing on Durkheim and Mauss, Professor Iver Neumann will begin with a discussion of how these different but overlapping approaches stand today, when the psychologising approach of methodological individualism and the biologising thrust towards stressing the genetic make-up of the species are on the rise. Stressing how humans are a meaning-producing species, a...
Basic tenets of teaching any subject at school level with an emphasis on Social Sciences in the present CCE model.
The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Carroll Quigley
This is the most boring series of videos I will ever release - let's learn how to read social science research. In our first episode I talk about the very basics of understanding this crap. Please tell me if this is too boring. I will try my best to make this entertaining. Tell me what you think. You can gib shekels on Patreon: patreon.com/AydinPaladin References Field, A. P. (2013). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS: and sex and drugs and rocknroll. London: SAGE. Keyton, J. (2015). Communication research: asking questions, finding answers. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. Resources http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/29/feminist-phd-candidate-science-sexist-not-subjective/ http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2467&context;=tqr Background Music: https://www.youtube.com/...