SOCIAL SCIENCE

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Has the emerging field of computational social science grown increasingly intellectually integrated over time, or does the field remain fragmented into several distinct epistemic communities? Because research literature is still inconclusive in this regard, we use data about citations to study the development of the intellectual structure of computational social science. The findings suggest that network science has…

Reference · Wikidata

academic disciplines concerned with society and the relationships between individuals in society

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 18th century. It now encompasses a wide array of additional academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, linguist…

Book · DOAB

How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the soc…

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