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Social science   /sˈoʊʃəl sˈaɪəns/   Listen
adjective
Social  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties. "Social phenomena."
2.
Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
3.
Consisting in union or mutual intercourse. "Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social communication."
4.
(Bot.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; said of many individual plants of the same species.
5.
(Zool.)
(a)
Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
(b)
Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
Social science, the science of all that relates to the social condition, the relations and institutions which are involved in man's existence and his well-being as a member of an organized community; sociology. It concerns itself with questions of the public health, education, labor, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the like.
Social whale (Zool.), the blackfish.
The social evil, prostitution.
Synonyms: Sociable; companionable; conversible; friendly; familiar; communicative; convival; festive.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Social science" Quotes from Famous Books



... hope that in the record we have now given, we have furnished some suggestions for general application to those who, like ourselves, are concerned not merely with the punishment of the criminal, but also with his reformation, both as a question of social science, and to the ...
— Prisoners Their Own Warders - A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits - Settlements Established 1825 • J. F. A. McNair
... if accepted would have become obsolete in a quarter of a century. The syllable Co stands for all relations between human beings, and these relations are of eight kinds. What would a professor of social science now say to this? What would an ichthyologist say to Wilkins' definition of a salmon? The interest of the book lies in its being the most striking of many proofs of the wide intellectual interests, the alert and insatiable curiosity, and the extraordinary ...
— The Life and Times of John Wilkins • Patrick A. Wright-Henderson


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