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
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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
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But a growing movement in social science sought to counter this.
—Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
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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
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Just as a note: In social science, this is not plagiarism.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
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And there are key ways to do that based on the social science concept of embeddedness.
—Tracy Brower, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
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So are the social sciences ready to help us navigate the pandemic?
—Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 16 May 2020
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This kind of real-time applied social science isn’t easy.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 27 May 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Ann Arbor native now lives in Chicago, working as high school social science teacher.
—Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The history and social sciences test has been cancelled after someone leaked the question paper.
—Ciara Nugent, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
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Leadership has been one of the most studied dynamics in social science and management fields.
—Tracy Brower, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
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Modern social science needs to have an impact outside ivory towers.
—Philip N. Howard, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
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Donald Davis, a social science teacher at the school, noted that the boy’s soccer team — which has had success at the state level — has to travel three miles to practice and has to pay to reserve the soccer field at Calumet Park.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2022
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Last year, a huge group of researchers collaborated to try to replicate the results of some very famous social science research.
—Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2019
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Ramsey plans to attend Carleton College and study social sciences.
—oregonlive, 21 June 2023
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The consensus was that culture and social sciences theory did not play a role in their research, and the concept of culture was not fully understood.
—Autumn McDonald, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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Drawing on recent social science research, these insights not only offer a clearer picture of the drivers of U.S. mass shootings.
—Paul Hirschfield, Foreign Affairs, 29 July 2022
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To support that social science dissection, Sankey drew on the experiences of actors, writers, and other filmmakers.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 June 2024
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