Social Science - Additional Fields of Study

Additional Fields of Study

Additional Social Science disciplines and fields of study include:

• Archaeology is the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, features, biofacts, and landscapes.
• Area studies are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural regions.
• Behavioral science is a term that encompasses all the disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among organisms in the natural world.
• Demography is the statistical study of all populations.
• Development studies a multidisciplinary branch of social science which addresses issues of concern to developing countries.
• Environmental social science is the broad, transdisciplinary study of interrelations between humans and the natural environment.
• Environmental studies integrate social, humanistic, and natural science perspectives on the relation between humans and the natural environment.
• Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information.
• International studies covers both International relations (the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system) and International education (the comprehensive approach that intentionally prepares people to be active and engaged participants in an interconnected world).
• Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media.
• Legal management is a social sciences discipline that is designed for students interested in the study of State and Legal elements.
• Library science is an interdisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.
• Management in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives.
• Marketing the identification of human needs and wants, defines and measures their magnitude for demand and understanding the process of consumer buying behavior to formulate products and services, pricing, promotion and distribution to satisfy these needs and wants through exchange processes and building long term relationships.
• Political economy is the study of production, buying and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government.