Social Sciences
| Subject | Father/mother of … | Reason |
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| Anthropology | Herodotus Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī |
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| Demography | Ibn Khaldun | Muqaddimah (Prolegomena) (1377) |
| Egyptology | Father Athanasius Kircher
Jean-François Champollion |
First to identify the phoenetic importance of the hieroglyph, and he demonstrated Coptic as a vestige of early Egyptian, before the Rosetta stone's discovery. Translated parts of the Rosetta Stone. |
| Indology | Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī | Wrote the Indica |
| International law | Francisco de Vitoria (ca 1483-1546)
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) |
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| Linguistics (early) | Panini | Wrote the first descriptive grammar (of Sanskrit) |
| Linguistics (modern) | Ferdinand de Saussure
Noam Chomsky |
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| Political science (modern) | Niccolò Machiavelli | Discussion of and concern with how people actually behave, as opposed to how people should behave. |
| Sociology | Ibn Khaldun Adam Ferguson Auguste Comte Marquis de Condorcet (founder) |
Wrote the first sociological book, the Muqaddimah (Prolegomena). "Father of modern sociology" Introduced the scientific method into sociology. |
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“The new supplants the old. Yet men’s minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)