Conclusion

As is the case with each of these beginning chapters, we conclude with a certain frustration
at the lack of time and space to deal with the topic. Still, we hope that the chapter has given was a
sense of the history of social science and, through that history, a sense of social science and what
it means to be a social scientist. The social science are evolving : they interact, and they move
among the humanities, natural sciences, and the individual social science depending on who is
working with them. They are fluid, not static, and that fluidity will present problems to anyone
who attempts too fixed a definition of any of them.

Nowadays, trends in social science has changed. For examples, boundaries between
different disciplines are becoming blurred, the boundaries of the various disciplines are changing,
and new social sciences are developing.