Noun
the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society
Source: WordNetThe fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Bertrand Russell
Social Science ... led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay. David Riesman
[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed. Jürgen Habermas
I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems. Kenneth Boulding
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. The first. the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage. Ram Dass