Humanities versus Social Sciences

[Anonymous]

On another thread people wrote psychology and sociology among other subjects as being under Humanities. Aren't these two areas and others typically housed under social sciences?

[Anonymous]

Social sciences fall under humanities.

HUMANities - studying human culture and human experience.

[Anonymous]

Typically we said "humanities and social sciences."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Social sciences fall under humanities.

HUMANities - studying human culture and human experience.

Wow. Just wow!

[Anonymous]

Psychology and sociology are social sciences. Social sciences are not humanities.

[Anonymous]

As you suggested, psychology and sociology are social science fields. They are not humanities fields. An area of ambiguity, however, may be whether or not some subfields of psychology might be classified as natural sciences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Psychology and sociology are social sciences. Social sciences are not humanities.

Yep. Ignore some of the previous posters. They are confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Social sciences fall under humanities.

HUMANities - studying human culture and human experience.

Can you list five colleges or universities where Humanities and Social Science are all listed and managed under Humanities? Not a branch campus where there are consolidated departments. At research universities?

[Anonymous]

Because the thinking here is 30 years out of date, on this and other topics.