How to Use social science in a Sentence

social science

noun
  • Economics is a social science.
  • Gilmore, 34, went on to play at Wyoming, getting a degree in social science.
    Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The chance to move into a place of her own was like hitting the jackpot, said Raskin, who teaches health and social science.
    Janie Har, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
  • But a growing movement in social science sought to counter this.
    Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The chance to move into a place of her own was like hitting the jackpot, said Ms. Raskin, who teaches health and social science.
    Janie Har, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
  • Just as a note: In social science, this is not plagiarism.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • And there are key ways to do that based on the social science concept of embeddedness.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
  • So are the social sciences ready to help us navigate the pandemic?
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 16 May 2020
  • This kind of real-time applied social science isn’t easy.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 27 May 2022
  • First the humanities, then the social sciences and now even the sciences have been forced to bend to identity politics.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2020
  • All of the social science has told us that men need time with their children, too, and that children benefit from the father being there in those early days.
    PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2021
  • The tone is very witty and irreverent and throws a lot of psychology and social science in there, too, in a way that’s still digestible.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 June 2023
  • But the social sciences and humanities are not faring so well.
    The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • In an age when religion and philosophy are on the wane, social science has stepped in to fill a void; the Stanford Prison Experiment showed the way.
    Noam Cohen, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The social science in this case is at least as important as the biological.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2018
  • The Ann Arbor native now lives in Chicago, working as high school social science teacher.
    Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Instead, there arose a blasphemous sidestepping of social science, a practice of going straight for the jugular.
    Bruce McCall, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The inability to found any discipline of social science akin to one of the natural sciences is a key feature of the spread of scientism in the modern world.
    Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Pursuing a degree in social science, Ochoa said that the part social work, part health care internship was perfect for her.
    Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2019
  • Before her stint as the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, Gay was the university’s dean of social science and a professor of government.
    Ellie Wolfe, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
  • No social science could be more robust in its conclusions than that the presence of guns produces violence with guns.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
  • The first is drawn from social science, which shows that spanking does not work to produce better behavior or healthier kids.
    David Roberts, Vox, 3 July 2018
  • The writer is a professor of social sciences at Bowdoin College.
    New York Times, 14 June 2019
  • Surveys of people around the world, as well as social science research on denial, suggest the answer to this question is more nuanced than a simple yes or no.
    Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Back in 2000, Joke Luttik, a researcher of economics and social sciences, published some hard data behind this trend in the Netherlands.
    Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • About 73% of graduates who studied social sciences, physical and life sciences, and art also said the same.
    Sarah Min, CBS News, 25 June 2019
  • Among them was Judith Hellman, who had been a senior living on the top floor of the Res Club and who became a professor of political and social science.
    New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • This may make sense for the prizes in the sciences and social sciences, since those fields are less than penetrable to anyone but fellow practitioners.
    Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
  • Drawing on recent social science research, these insights not only offer a clearer picture of the drivers of U.S. mass shootings.
    Paul Hirschfield, Foreign Affairs, 29 July 2022
  • In reality, this had more to do with social science and preservationist sentiments than public safety.
    Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 10 July 2024

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