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social science

vr.tr.social-science · INF.KNW

Let an agent handle the social sciences as a family of disciplines with methods and evidence standards, and locate questions within the right discipline.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle the social sciences as a family of disciplines with methods and evidence standards, and locate questions within the right discipline.

The group of academic disciplines that study human society and social relationships, such as sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, psychology, law and geography.

What it is for: Understanding societies and informing policy.

It can be research and teach it; inform policy with evidence; survey and analyse populations; evaluate programmes.

Distinguishing features

Studies society and social relations

Uses quantitative and qualitative methods

Evidence is often contested and context-bound

Overlaps with humanities and natural sciences

What it looks like

Departments, journals, surveys, datasets and reports.

How it is recognised

Discipline labels and journals

Survey and administrative data

Interdisciplinary fields such as public health nutrition

Related models

has kind - disciplines

economics and psychology

is a kind of - field

science

studies - subject

society

informs - use

government and policy

In practice

Families and kinds

sociology

economics

political science

anthropology

social psychology

law and legal studies

human geography

Identifiers

field classification OECD FORD 5 Social sciences research classification

Standards and regulation

Research ethics for human participants

Official statistics codes of practice

Data protection law

Failure modes and hazards

Overgeneralising from small or biased samples

Ideological framing presented as findings

Replication problems

Also called

cognitive elite fraudsterpublic health nutritionintersectionalityMythical normpatent lawEuropean patent lawpatent law of the European UnionAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sciencesPacific Peoples scienceseducational sciencespremilitary instructionsocial data sciencetransport lawjurisprudenceeducational psychosociologyleadership studiesgeromicsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and historyMāori media, film, animation and photographyMāori religion and religious studiesMāori peoples, society and communitygeography of crimereproductive studiesChristian studiesindigenous studiesrailway lawlaw and economicspublic healthfamily sciencegerontologyRelationship sciencecriminal justicesocio-economic geography and spatial managementcommunication sciencehistory and philosophy of the social sciencescommerce, management, tourism and servicesorganization and managementwelfare studiesrural social sciencescommunication studies

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.social-science

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Discipline Which field.

Discipline locates questions.

Field

Sociology, economics, etc.

Field

The discipline.

  1. Which social science discipline addresses this question? definition
  2. Which neighbouring fields are relevant? definition

Approach

Theoretical approach.

Approach

Theoretical perspective.

  1. Which theoretical approach is used? provenance
  2. What alternatives exist? boundary
Methods How evidence is produced.

Methods decide what can be concluded.

Data

Surveys, interviews, records.

Data

Data sources.

  1. Which data were used, and how representative are they? provenance
  2. How were participants protected? boundary

Analysis

Quantitative or qualitative.

Analysis

Analytic method.

  1. Which analytic methods were used? provenance
  2. Do they support causal claims? boundary
Findings What is known.

Findings vary in strength and context.

Strength

Replication.

Strength

Robustness of findings.

  1. How robust and replicated is the finding? measurement
  2. In which contexts does it hold? boundary

Debate

Contestation.

Debate

Scholarly debate.

  1. Where do scholars disagree? boundary
  2. How should both sides be represented? action
Use Policy and practice.

Social science informs decisions.

Policy

Evidence for policy.

Policy

Policy relevance.

  1. How is this evidence used in policy? definition
  2. What caveats apply? boundary

Ethics

Human participants.

Ethics

Ethical safeguards.

  1. Which ethics approvals were needed? provenance
  2. Is personal data protected? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should disciplines be separate entries?
  • How should agents present contested social science findings?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases such as patent law; should they be split off?
Draft as JSON