social science

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

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Questions about social science

What does social science mean?

social science means "the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society".

Is social science a common word?

social science is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.