Why is history called social studies?

Answer 1

History is written by the victors within a region. It is comparatively easy to alter the physical evidence of an event as seen in Afghanistan with the destruction of the mountain Buddahs. Therefore in the absence of physical evidence of an event, it is merely hearsay and traditon on the part of the people of the region. In order for history to be a "hard" science, it would have to have incontrovertible evidence and accepted interpretation which does not change. Evidences of such changes are social acceptance of the facts, common agreement of the interpretation of said facts, and archeological evidence which corroborates the facts. This is not possible within history as evidence can be altered and accepted on the part of the people. A recent development to illustrate this issue is the removal of the event known as the Holocaust from UK textbooks because it offends the Muslim community in that country. Despite physical evidence, pictoral proofs, and eyewitness accounts, this segment of the population denies its historical fact, claiming that it is a myth. The UK government has altered the teaching of the fact to accomodate this segment of the population's preduces concerning the event. Thus history can be altered by a government, a segment of the population, or even a political leader in order to suit themselves. This is the reason that history is a social science.

Answer 2

Social studies or Social Sciences is the combination of all social subjects or studies related to society. Subjects like history, economics, political sciences, civics, and sociology are interdependent. They are also known as sister subjects.

Answer 3

History can be called a social science. That's because it makes reference to well known ways of human behavior and offers a predictive value or when writing about the past, a interpretive value.It is not an exact science. Science is information that can be verified by other sources and will confine itself to logic and provability. It is more reliable then a social science.

There is no exactitude in social science predictions. For example, science has proven that a new fertilizer can double crop growth. It's been proven, tested and even patented.

The new fertilizer is given to a farmer who produces x bushels of grain on one acre of farmland. The introduction of the new fertilizer promises to double the crop of farming one acre. However, the farmer choses not to double the crop output. Instead the farmer decides to work only one half of the farmland to produce the previous result. Farming the full acre is deemed to be extra work and the farmer is satisfied with the same output at half the labor.

Here we see "science" and the unpredictability of human behavior.

Answer 4

so when students find out that half the bs that is tought in public schools is wrong, they can say "well it's social 'studies' not actual history.

Answer 5

Social means people thus people studies and history would not be without people.

Answer 6

It has to do with society: the ability of not making the same mistakes that were made in the past societies. The science of this can be achieved through history.