• Philosophy in this sense means how social science integrates with other related scientific disciplines, which implies a rigorous, systematic endeavor...
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  • Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions are...
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    A gadfly is a person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community by posing novel, potentially upsetting questions, usually directed at...
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  • the social sciences and the humanities. In turn, the social sciences themselves are of focal interest to the philosophy of social science. Social philosophy...
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    advocated within social science such as analytic realism and subtle realism.[page needed] Bhaskar developed a general philosophy of science that he described...
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    possible objects of knowledge; philosophy is thus recognized as essentially no different from science [...] Ethics, politics, social interactions, and...
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  • The history of the social sciences began in the Age of Enlightenment after 1651, which saw a revolution within natural philosophy, changing the basic...
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  • qualitative social research, the philosophy of social science and the scientific method. Disciplines and areas of study of the Bachelor of Social Science include...
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    reflection of the discipline's eclectic nature. Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, but it has also played a major part in political science, within...
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  • many of the institutional and professional features of science began to take shape, along with the changing of "natural philosophy" to "natural science"....
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