QA Compact: Quick Access - Writing in the Social Sciences (Ch. 37)

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The social sciences focus on the behavior of people as individuals and in groups. The social science field includes disciplines such as economics, education, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, and at some colleges, history. The social sciences use several methods of inquiry. They include observations, interviews, questionnaires, and experiments. Some of these methods lead to “quantitative research,” which analyzes statistics and other numerical data, and other methods lead to “qualitative research,” which relies on careful descriptions and interpretations.

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