What is social science? How do we study people and the culture, organizations, and politics that they make? In this section, we discuss how science is a process and a way of observing and thinking about the world.
Social Science is the scientific method applied to human behavior. Political Science and Public Administration are the scientific study of human behavior in politics and the public sector. This video will introduce you to social science research and the methods we use to answer research questions.
Watch the video and then ask yourself these questions:
Sociology and Political Science have a lot in common, particularly in the way the two disciplines approach research methods and epistemology (i.e., how we know things).