How to Use social science in a Sentence
social science
noun- Economics is a social science.
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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 -
Mr Kennedy did not join his colleagues’ attack on the social sciences.
— The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017 -
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 -
If anyone can find an answer to that, it’s Cruz, whose quest to push through to the other side could rock the fundamentals of social science.
— T.a. Frank, The Hive, 26 Nov. 2017 -
She's been a full-time social science instructor at La Cañada since 2015.
— Charles Rich, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018 -
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 -
The decision to approve the curriculum followed a presentation by the school system’s supervisor of social sciences, Erin Lange, who was joined by curriculum specialists, students and teachers of the course.
— Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024 -
Such differences in reaction testify far more eloquently than a scientific article why those who are the establishment are there and why social science has been so ineffective.
— Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
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