Portal:Social Sciences
Top level portal for Class H: Social Sciences.
Social sciences are the academic disciplines concerned with society and human behavior.
Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis and presentation of data.
Economic theory is the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Demography is the statistical study of living populations.
Economic history and conditions covers the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past.
Industries covers the production of goods and services.
Child portal: Agricultural labour
Land use covers the human use of land, including ownership, reform, management and planning.
Labor covers work and services performed by people. This portal includes the labor market, the supply and demand of labor, industrial relations and social insurance.
Transportation and communications covers the use of technology to move goods and people; and the sending and receiving of messages. This portal includes trade routes, traffic engineering, transport systems, freight, communication industries and signalling.
Commerce is the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. This portal includes merchants' associations, the balance of trade, commodities, tariffs, marketing, sales and accounting.
Finance is the study of how investors allocate their assets over time under conditions of certainty and uncertainty. This portal includes liquidity, money, banking, credit and insurance.
Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy.
Sociology is the study of society and human social activity. This portal covers culture social structure, social organization and social psychology.
Social history is the history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life.
Social problems covers controversial issues that relate to people's personal lives and interactions.
Social reform covers gradual changes to society or improve certain aspects of society.
The Family covers parenthood, children, sexuality, life, death and lifestyles.
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Women covers all matters relating to women and women's rights; including politics, society, education and history from a woman's perspective.
Child portals: Feminism • Women's suffrage
Societies covers groups of people engaged in common interests. This portal includes clubs, organisations, associations, benevolent societies and secret societies.
Child portal: Anonymous • Secret societies • Wikimedia Foundation
Communities covers human settlements, cities, and urban, suburban and rural groups.
Race studies covers races as social groups and race relations in general.
Child portals: Aboriginals • Hate groups • Ku Klux Klan
Social pathology covers actions or behaviors that violate or deviate from social norms. This portal includes degeneration, addiction, alcoholism, smoking and drug abuse.
Child portals: Drugs and alcohol • Suicide
Social and public welfare covers the support, aid and relief of people who, temporarily or permanently, cannot support themselves. This portal includes charity, social work, and emergency management.
Child portal: Animal Rights • Australasian Deaf and Dumb Association • Poverty
Criminology is the study of the nature, causes and control of criminal behavior.
Child portals: Global War on Terror • IRS investigation of Al Capone • Prison • September 11th (Zacarias Moussaoui) • Terrorism • Torture
Socialism is an economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy.
Child portal: Industrial Workers of the World • Socialist Party of Great Britain
Communism is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production.
Anarchism is a political and philosophical belief that all forms of involuntary rule or government are undesirable or unnecessary, and that society could function without a ruler or state.
Child portal: CrimethInc.
- External links
- Class H on Project Gutenberg
- Call number H on the Online Books Page