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1 What is social science? Dr. Roy Cole Department of Geography and Planning GVSU SS300 Research Methods in the Social Sciences 1.What is Social Science? 2.Origins of the Social Sciences 3.Why Social Science? 4.Social Sciences and politics. 5.Is Social Science truly science?

2 What is social science? Core disciplines Peripheral disciplines

3 What is social science? Applied subdivisions.  Core disciplines.  Peripheral disciplines

4 Origins of the social sciences

5 Why social science?

6 Is Social Science truly science? Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).

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