Why is psychology by far the most common social science/humanities major?

[Anonymous]

Looking at this list, psychology is far ahead of the others:

Psychology 103,801
Political science 33,845
English 32,098
Economics 29,275
Sociology 27,294
History 23,382
Anthropology 8,227
Philosophy 5,644

Why?

[Anonymous]

Source: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_318.30.asp

[Anonymous]

Because understanding people is a useful skill in business. In addition, most high schools don’t offer more than an introductory course, if that. Students already take english and history in high school. Most of the other disciples won’t apply to all jobs.

[Anonymous]

A lot of people who study psych are looking to fix something in themselves.

[Anonymous]

A wider swath of the population is interested in human thinking than they are in the topics of other subjects. Many people have psychological problems & they enjoy learning about those problems.

[Anonymous]

We need more therapists and what not, so good

[Anonymous]

It’s interesting and relatively easy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting and relatively easy

+1. It’s the easiest

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting and relatively easy

+1. It’s the easiest

And if you don’t got to grad school, you are basically useless. I know many who have trouble getting jobs.

It’s a lame major unless you go to grad school.

[Anonymous]

Psychology is not a humanities discipline. It is a social science. There is an immense difference: great things about both ways of approaching knowledge, but it is a disservice to both to lump them together indiscriminately. (And before you ask, I'm in higher education, in a college of arts and sciences.)

[Anonymous]

Because it's the only thing many modern Americans can handle. You just need to BS it. Other subjects actually require some real work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Psychology is not a humanities discipline. It is a social science. There is an immense difference: great things about both ways of approaching knowledge, but it is a disservice to both to lump them together indiscriminately. (And before you ask, I'm in higher education, in a college of arts and sciences.)

Is history humanities or social science?

[Anonymous]

Humanities generally include languages, history, language arts (eg literature and poetry), philosophy, performance arts, and visual arts.

What humanities are NOT is a catch-all for any non-STEM major, nor a synonym for liberal arts.

[Anonymous]

Interesting enough and EASY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting and relatively easy

+1. It’s the easiest

And if you don’t got to grad school, you are basically useless. I know many who have trouble getting jobs.

It’s a lame major unless you go to grad school.

Just like history English communications anthropology sociology etc.