Abstract
The term ‘social sciences’ is broad, embracing a range of issues and methods of inquiry not readily reducible to systematic organization. What is taught and how it is taught under the general rubric thus varies significantly across and even within the constituent special fields. Complicating matters further is the hybrid nature of certain disciplines (e.g., psychology, physical anthropology), which are at once social and natural sciences. Common across and within the disciplines are certain core problems of a conceptual nature, chiefly those pertaining to explanation, integration, measurement, and the criteria of theoretical adequacy.
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