Introduction

Social science – study of the social world constructed between humans

• The social sciences usually limit themselves to an anthropomorphically centric view of these interactions with minimal emphasis on the inadvertent impact of social human behavior on the external environment (physical, biological, ecological, etc.)
• Social' is the concept of exchange/influence of ideas, thoughts, and relationship interactions (resulting in harmony, peace, self enrichment, favoritism, maliciousness, justice seeking, etc.) between humans
• science comprising scientific fields concerned with societies, human behaviour, and social relationships.

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• Anthropology - the study of humans, past and present, that draws and builds upon knowledge from the social sciences and biological sciences, as well as the humanities and the natural sciences.
  • Anthropology of religion – the study of religious institutions about other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures
  • Applied anthropology – application of the method and theory of anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems.
  • Archaeology – the study of cultures via material remains and environmental data (Outline of archaeology)
  • Cultural anthropology – a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the effect of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities.
  • Ethnobiology – the scientific study of dynamic relationships between peoples, biota, and environments, from the distant past to the immediate present.
  • Ethnobotany – is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of local culture and people.
  • Ethnography – the systematic study of people and cultures.
  • Ethnology – a branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity.
  • Ethnopoetics – method of recording text versions of oral poetry or narrative performances (i.e., verbal lore) that uses poetic lines, verses, and stanzas (instead of prose paragraphs) to capture the formal, poetic performance elements which would otherwise be lost in the written texts.
  • Evolutionary anthropology – an interdisciplinary study of the evolution of human physiology and human behaviour and the relation between hominids and non-hominid primates.
  • Experimental archaeology – Experimental archaeology employs several different methods, techniques, analyses, and approaches to generate and test hypotheses, based upon the archaeological source material, like ancient structures or artifacts.
  • Historical archaeology – a form of archaeology dealing with topics that are already attested in written records.
  • Linguistic anthropology – is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life.
  • Medical anthropology – an interdisciplinary field that studies "human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation".
  • Physical anthropology – the study of the physical development of the human species.
  • Psychological anthropology – interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes.
  • Zooarchaeology – study of faunal remains.
  • Anthrozoology – study of human-animal interaction.

Business studies – an academic area that consists of many sub-areas about the social relationships that compose the human economic systems. - Accountancy – the measurement, processing and communication of financial information about economic entities. - Finance – a field dealing with the study of investments. - Commerce - Management – the administration of an organization, whether it be a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. - Human resource management – a function in organizations designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's strategic objectives. - Marketing – the study and management of exchange relationships. - Organizational studies – the examination of how individuals construct organizational structures, processes, and practices and how these, in turn, shape social relations and create institutions that ultimately influence people.