The document provides brief definitions for various academic disciplines and fields of study. It covers subjects across the social sciences, humanities, physical sciences, and other areas. Some of the disciplines mentioned include anthropology, archaeology, economics, education, geography, history, linguistics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
The document provides brief definitions for various academic disciplines and fields of study. It covers subjects across the social sciences, humanities, physical sciences, and other areas. Some of the disciplines mentioned include anthropology, archaeology, economics, education, geography, history, linguistics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
The document provides brief definitions for various academic disciplines and fields of study. It covers subjects across the social sciences, humanities, physical sciences, and other areas. Some of the disciplines mentioned include anthropology, archaeology, economics, education, geography, history, linguistics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Gender-Sexuality-Studies examines the historical and theoretical development of sexuality in migration research. Noting gaps and omissions in the literature, the essay proposes a dual notion of sexuality including one that is produced by the intersection of .Archaeology, or archeology, is the study other social identities such as class and race, of human activity through the recovery and a queer studies-derived idea of the sexual and analysis of material culture. that goes against the normalizing of The archaeological record consists of heterosexual institutions and practices. artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts Psychology is the scientific study of the and cultural mind and behavior. Psychology is a landscapes. Archaeology can be multifaceted discipline and includes many considered both a social science and a sub-fields of study such areas as human branch of the humanities. development, sports, health, clinical, social behavior and cognitive processes. Area studies (also regional studies) are interdisciplinary fields of research and Sociology the study of the development, scholarship pertaining to particular structure, and functioning of human society. geographical, national/federal, or cultural regions. Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and Geography is the study of places and the consumption of goods and relationships between people and their services. Economics focuses on the environments. Geographers explore both behaviour and interactions the physical properties of Earth's surface of economic agents and how economies and the human societies spread across it. work.
Anthropology is the scientific study of Political Science the branch of knowledge
humans and human behavior and societies in that deals with systems of government; the the past and present. analysis of political activity and behavior. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour and cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. "Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and Linguistic anthropology studies how communities to enhance their individual and language influences social life. collective well-being. It aims to help people Cultural-Ethnic-Studies As a subject, develop their skills and their ability to use their cultural and ethnic studies is the own resources and those of the community to resolve problems. comparative analyses of racial and ethnic groups, interpretations of cultural practices, examination of biases, and exploration of a vision of a “multiculturally intelligent” society, with heightened awareness of embedded beliefs and stereotypes Environmental studies brings together the Public administration, the implementation of principles of the physical sciences, government policies. Today public commerce/economics and social sciences so administration is often regarded as including as to solve contemporary environmental also some responsibility for determining the problems. It is a broad field of study that policies and programs of governments. includes the natural environment, the Specifically, it is the planning, organizing, built environment, and the sets of directing, coordinating, and controlling of relationships between them. government operations. Education is the process of facilitating Paleontology the branch of science learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, concerned with fossil animals and plants. skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, Oceanography is the study of all aspects of teaching, training, and directed research. the ocean. Oceanography covers a wide range of topics, from marine life and Ecology the branch of biology that deals with ecosystems, to currents and waves, to the the relations of organisms to one another and movement of sediments, to seafloor geology. to their physical surroundings. Development studies. From Wikipedia, the Media Studies the study of the mass media free encyclopedia. Development studies is a as an academic subject. multidisciplinary branch of social science. Development studies is offered as Linguistics the study of the mass media as a specialized master's degree in a number of an academic subject. reputed universities across the world, and, less commonly, as an undergraduate degree. Library science is the field of study that teaches how to manage books and other Demography the study of statistics such as information, particularly through collecting, births, deaths, income, or the incidence of preserving, and organizing books and other disease, which illustrate the changing materials in libraries. structure of human populations.
Criminology is the study of the law
Law is a system of rules that are created and enforcement and criminal justice system. enforced through social or governmental A person looking for a career in criminal institutions to regulate behavior. It has been justice will very likely first seek to earn a defined both as "the Science of Justice" and criminology degree. While criminal "the Art of Justice". Law is a system that justice and criminology are certainly regulates and ensures that individuals or a related fields, they are not identical. community adhere to the will of the state
Information Science the study of processes Communication studies is an academic field
for storing and retrieving information, that deals with processes of human especially scientific or technical information. communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols to create meaning. The discipline encompasses a range of topics, Industrial Relations the relations between from face-to-face conversation to mass media outlets such as television broadcasting. management and workers in industry. Civics the study of the rights and duties of History (from Greek, historia, meaning citizenship. 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') is the past as it is described in written Business Studies is an academic subject documents, and the study thereof. Events taught in schools and at university level in occurring before written records are many countries. ... Business Studies is a considered prehistory. broad subject in the Social Sciences, allowing the in-depth study of a range of specialties such as accountancy, finance, organization, human resources management and marketing.