How to Use social science in a Sentence

social science

noun

• Economics is a social science.
• But a growing movement in social science sought to counter this.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• On the left, all the way to the back, down the stairs, past mythology and social sciences.
  — Casey McQuiston, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• And in the early ’60s, there was great faith in social science.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
• It's been a big conversation in social science over the last two years or so.
  — ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
• Mr Kennedy did not join his colleagues’ attack on the social sciences.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• But that didn’t mean giving up his interest in social science.
  — Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
• And there are key ways to do that based on the social science concept of embeddedness.
  — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
• But the social sciences and humanities are not faring so well.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• With a replication crisis plaguing social science, this was nice to see.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
• Gilmore, 34, went on to play at Wyoming, getting a degree in social science.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2024
• Those who study social sciences and performing arts don’t fare too much better, the analysis found.
  — Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 22 June 2025
• 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
• Trust is risky, and there is ample evidence from social science that the risk of being conned sparks a special risk aversion.
  — Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025
• The social science in this case is at least as important as the biological.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2018
• While these scriptures were written thousands of years ago, their themes are reflected in modern social science.
  — Meg Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Facebook has issued public calls for technical research, but until the past few months, hasn’t done so for social sciences.
  — Fortune, 14 June 2018
• 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
• Among its top officials were two PhDs in social sciences who were not medical doctors.
  — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 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
• 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
• But modeling is still a side job; a student of social sciences, Tage lives with his family in Stockholm.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
• This may make sense for the prizes in the sciences and social sciences, since those fields are less than penetrable to anyone but fellow practitioners.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
• Degrees in the physical and social sciences delivered less payoff.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 June 2026
• The writer is a professor of social sciences at Bowdoin College.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2019
• About 73% of graduates who studied social sciences, physical and life sciences, and art also said the same.
  — Sarah Min, CBS News, 25 June 2019