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==Additional fields of study==
{{See also|Auxiliary sciences of history}}
Additional applied or interdisciplinary fields related to the social sciences or are applied social sciences include:
* [[Archaeology]], a science that is focused on the study of human cultures by means of the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, features, and landscapes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is Archaeology |url=https://www.saa.org/about-archaeology/what-is-archaeology |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Society for American Archaeology |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Area studies]], interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural regions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Area studies {{!}} Social Research, Interdisciplinary Analysis & Global Perspectivesca |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/area-studies |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Britannica |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Behavioural science]], which encompasses disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among organisms in the natural world.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Behavioral science {{!}} Definition, Examples, & Facts  |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/behavioral-science |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Britannica |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Computational Social Science|Computational social science]], an umbrella field encompassing computational approaches within the social sciences.<ref>{{Citation |last=Amaral |first=Ines |title=Computational Social Sciences |date=2017 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_41-1 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Big Data |pages=1–3 |editor-last=Schintler |editor-first=Laurie A. |access-date=2024-01-18 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_41-1 |isbn=978-3-319-32001-4 |editor2-last=McNeely |editor2-first=Connie L.}}</ref>
* [[Demography]], the statistical study of human populations.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-11 |title=Demography {{!}} Population Trends, Migration & Age Structure  |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/demography |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Britannica |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Development studies]], a branch of social science that addresses issues of concern to developing countries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Development Studies • Centre for Samoan Studies |url=https://centreforsamoanstudies.ws/teaching/development-studies/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Centre for Samoan Studies |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Environmental social science]], the broad study of interrelations between humans and the natural environment.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Environmental social sciences - Latest research and news {{!}} Nature |url=https://www.nature.com/subjects/environmental-social-sciences |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=www.nature.com}}</ref>
* [[Environmental studies]], which integrates social, humanistic, and natural science perspectives on the relation between humans and the natural environment.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Environmental Studies {{!}} Course Catalogue |url=https://www.wesleyancollege.edu/registrar/catalog/Environmental-Studies.cfm |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=www.wesleyancollege.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Gender studies]], which is focused on the study of gender identity, masculinity, femininity, [[transgender]] issues, and [[sexuality]].<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1016/B978-0-444-51747-0.50015-9 |chapter=Linguistics and Gender Studies |title=Philosophy of Linguistics |date=2012 |last1=McConnell-Ginet |first1=Sally |pages=503–530 |isbn=978-0-444-51747-0 }}</ref>
* [[Information science]], an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Information science {{!}} Definition & Facts  |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/information-science |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Britannica |language=en}}</ref>
* [[International studies]], which covers both international relations (the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system) and [[international education]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Studies |url=https://converge.colorado.edu/social-sciences/international-studies/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=CONVERGE {{!}} Natural Hazards Center |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Legal management (academic discipline)|Legal management]], a social sciences discipline that is designed for students interested in the study of state and legal elements.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Secretariat |first=Treasury Board of Canada |date=2015-10-27 |title=Law Management |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/collective-agreements/occupational-groups/law-management.html |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Canada}}</ref>
* [[Library science]], a field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; and the collection, organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kowarski |first=Ilana |date=June 21, 2021 |title=Library Science and How to Become a Librarian |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/what-library-science-is-and-how-to-become-a-librarian}}</ref>
* [[Management]], which consists of various levels of leadership and administration of an organization in all business and human organizations. It is the effective execution of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives through adequate planning, executing and controlling activities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Primary Functions of Management {{!}} Principles of Management |url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-principlesmanagement/chapter/primary-functions-of-management/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=courses.lumenlearning.com}}</ref>
* [[Marketing]], the identification of human needs and wants, defines and measures their magnitude for demand and understanding the process of consumer buying behaviour to formulate products and services, pricing, promotion and distribution to satisfy these needs and wants through exchange processes and building long-term relationships.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Albrecht |first1=Maria Gomez |url=https://openstax.org/books/principles-marketing/pages/1-1-marketing-and-the-marketing-process |title=Principles of Marketing |last2=Green |first2=Mark |last3=Hoffman |first3=Linda |date=Jan 25, 2023 |publisher=OpenStax |isbn=978-1-951693-88-6}}</ref>
* [[Political economy]], the study of production, buying and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-22 |title=8.1: What is Political Economy? |url=https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Political_Science_and_Civics/Introduction_to_Comparative_Government_and_Politics_(Bozonelos_et_al.)/08%3A_Political_Economy/8.01%3A_What_is_Political_Economy |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Social Sci LibreTexts |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Public administration]], the development, implementation and study of branches of government policy. Though public administration has been historically referred to as government management,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Dictionary of the Social Sciences – Oxford Reference|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195123715.001.0001|year = 2002|isbn = 978-0-19-512371-5|last1 = Zaki Badawi|first1 = A}}</ref> it increasingly encompasses [[non-governmental organization]]s (NGOs) that also operate with a similar, primary dedication to the betterment of humanity.
* [[Religious studies]] and [[Academic study of Western esotericism|Western esoteric studies]], which incorporate social-scientific research on phenomena deemed religious.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Josephson-Storm | first = Jason | title = The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences | location = Chicago | publisher = University of Chicago Press | date = 2017 |pages = 101–14 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xZ5yDgAAQBAJ | isbn = 978-0-226-40336-6 }}</ref>