SOSC 1000 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 class note
22 Oct 2015
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Social science occupies the space between natural science and humanities that is where it has its origins. It exists between normative and empirical questions is and ought questions. Social science exists between those disciplines and often has an overlap the purpose is to explain and predict human behaviour and to map out the relationship between three key variables self, culture and society. In the evolution of ss, the big five disciplines were psychology, economics, political sci, sociology and anthropology. Psychology where does psychology place emphasis self. Economist self the study of self interested individuals who want to maximize their gains. During this period we have arms race, man goes to the moon. The cold world can be seen as underlying this growth in the social sciences. It is in this period that in the west, a prominent academic, daniel bell, proclaims the end of ideology.
