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Why do we use the term

Why do we use the term "science" in "social science"/ "political science"/ etc given that the so called social "sciences" have a very long way to go before they even superficially resemble what we traditonally call sciences (that is mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc)?

By "resemble" I mean that the scientific method, as used in sciences, in most cases simply cannot be applied to social "sciences" or the attempts to do so lead to conclusions, highly disputable by the different schools of thought of the respective social "science".


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The word 'science' is not an English term. It has a greek/latin origin 'scire"

Scire = to know

Any method to know is a scientific method.

If you use a microscope to know about a bacterium, then it is a scientific method.

If you statistics to know about the mean value taken by a variable, then it is a scientific method.

By the way, are you asking the commercialised  meaning of the word 'science'.

In the commercial world, the word 'science' takes a very different meaing which no true scientist can tell you.
Posted 2009-09-07T10:39:12Z
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Science is the 'HOW', 'WHY', 'WHAT' of anything that works! If or not it is Physics or Function of Society, all Subjects that work are Sciences! Your Welcome and Happy Future!
Posted 2009-10-04T20:27:05Z
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"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, Establish Justice,; insure domestic Tranquility, to provide for the common defense, to promote the general Welare, and to Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and to our Posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution of the United States of America.

The term "Science" refers to "The observation, identification, experimental, theoretical." Therefore, all sciences, as you listed them are sciences by definition. Michael Joel Held
Posted 2009-10-15T00:31:56Z
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Because we need to be smarter. Cool
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