SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MISSION

Abstract

Specialization and integration in the "social sciences" are relatively recent developments in the academic disciplines as compared to classical studies of the humanities (e.g. philosophy, literature, etc.) and the natural sciences (e.g. physics, chemistry, etc.). There are different ways of classifying and categorizing disciplines in the "social sciences;" only five (i.e. anthropology, psychology, sociology, linguistics and communication) are selected in the following discussion on their relationship to mission.