Social science Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society

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  1. 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.

Webster 1913