Ask HN: Is there a field that combines all the social sciences?

1 points by terrykohla 12 years ago | 4 comments

psychology, communications, economics, sociology, philosophy, history, political science, journalism, etc.

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VandyILL 12 years ago |

From my perspective there doesn't seem to be any one field that combines all of them, but there do seem to be many permutations popping up that combine multiple fields - ie. the rise of Behavioral Economics (mostly just psych + econ). It seems like most of the cutting edge research in any given social science field that I read about is usually just a mashup of two previously divided schools of thought.

sciurus 12 years ago |

psychology, communications, economics, sociology, philosophy, history, political science, journalism, etc. can combine all of psychology, communications, economics, sociology, philosophy, history, political science, journalism, etc.

mrpound 12 years ago |

Anthropology