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== Bibliography ==
Michie, Jonathan, ed. Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences (2 vol. 2001) 1970 pages annotating the major topics in the late 20th century in all the social sciences.

=== 20th and 21st centuries sources ===
Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (2001). International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Byrne, D.S. (1998). Complexity theory and the social sciences: an introduction. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16296-8
Kuper, A., and Kuper, J. (1985). The Social Science Encyclopedia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (ed., a limited preview of the 1996 version is available)
Lave, C.A., and March, J.G. (1993). An introduction to models in the social sciences. Lanham, Md: University Press of America.
Perry, John and Erna Perry. Contemporary Society: An Introduction to Social Science (12th Edition, 2008), college textbook
Potter, D. (1988). Society and the social sciences: An introduction. London: Routledge [u.a.].
David L. Sills and Robert K. Merton (1968). International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
Seligman, Edwin R.A. and Alvin Johnson (1934). Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. (13 vol.)
Ward, L.F. (1924). Dynamic sociology, or applied social science: As based upon statical sociology and the less complex sciences. New York: D. Appleton.
Leavitt, F.M., and Brown, E. (1920). Elementary social science. New York: Macmillan.
Bogardus, E.S. (1913). Introduction to the social sciences: A textbook outline. Los Angeles: Ralston Press.
Small, A.W. (1910). The meaning of social science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

=== 19th century sources ===
Andrews, S.P. (1888). The science of society. Boston, Mass: Sarah E. Holmes.
Denslow, V.B. (1882). Modern thinkers principally upon social science: What they think, and why. Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co.
Harris, William Torrey (1879). Method of Study in Social Science: A Lecture Delivered Before the St. Louis Social Science Association, March 4, 1879. St. Louis: G.I. Jones and Co, 1879.
Hamilton, R.S. (1873). Present status of social science. A review, historical and critical, of the progress of thought in social philosophy. New York: H.L. Hinton.
Carey, H.C. (1867). Principles of social science. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. [etc.]. Volume I, Volume II, Volume III.
Calvert, G.H. (1856). Introduction to social science: A discourse in three parts. New York: Redfield.

=== General sources ===
Backhouse, Roger E., and Philippe Fontaine, eds. A historiography of the modern social sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Backhouse, Roger E.; Fontaine, Philippe, eds. (2010). The History of the Social Sciences Since 1945. Cambridge University Press.; covers the conceptual, institutional, and wider histories of economics, political science, sociology, social anthropology, psychology, and human geography.
Delanty, G. (1997). Social science: Beyond constructivism and realism. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press.
Hargittai, E. (2009). Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472026531. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2009.
Heim, K. M. (1987). Social Scientific Information Needs for Numeric Data: The Evolution of the International Data Archive Infrastructure. Collection Management, 9(1), 1–53.
Hunt, E.F.; Colander, D.C. (2008). Social science: An introduction to the study of society. Boston: Peason/Allyn and Bacon. ISBN 978-0-205-52406-8.
Carey, H.C.; McKean, K. (1883). Manual of social science; Being a condensation of the Principles of social science. Philadelphia: Baird.
Galavotti, M.C. (2003). Observation and experiment in the natural and social sciences. Boston studies in the philosophy of science. Vol. 232. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. ISBN 978-1-4020-1251-8.
Gorton, W.A. (2006). Karl Popper and the social sciences. SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Harris, F.R. (1973). Social science and national policy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books. ISBN 978-1-4128-3445-2. distributed by Dutton
Krimerman, L.I. (1969). The nature and scope of social science: A critical anthology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. ISBN 978-0-390-52678-6.
Rule, J.B. (1997). Theory and progress in social science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57365-8.
Shionoya, Y. (1997). Schumpeter and the idea of social science: A metatheoretical study. Historical perspectives on modern economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Singleton, Royce A.; Straits, Bruce C. (1988). Approaches to Social Research. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514794-0. Archived from the original on March 3, 2007.
Thomas, D. (1979). Naturalism and Social Science: A Post-Empiricist Philosophy of Social Science. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-29660-1.
Trigg, R. (2001). Understanding social science: A philosophical introduction to the social sciences. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers.
Weber, M. (1906) [1904]. The Relations of the Rural Community to Other Branches of Social Science, Congress of Arts and Science: Universal Exposition. St. Louis: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
Creswell, John W. Educational research: planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. ISBN 978-1-299-95719-0. OCLC 859836343.

=== Academic resources ===
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, ISSN 1552-3349 (electronic) ISSN 0002-7162 (paper), Sage Publications
Efferson, Charles; Richerson, Peter J. (March 16, 2007). "A prolegomenon to nonlinear empiricism in the human behavioral sciences". Biology & Philosophy. 22 (1): 1–33. doi:10.1007/s10539-005-9013-7.

=== Opponents and critics ===
George H. Smith (2014). Intellectuals and Libertarianism: Thomas Sowell and Robert Nisbet
Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read and Wes Sharrock (2008). There's No Such Thing as a Social Science. ISBN 978-0-7546-4776-8
Sabia, D.R., and Wallulis, J. (1983). Changing social science: Critical theory and other critical perspectives. Albany: State University of New York Press.

== External links ==

Institute for Comparative Research in Human and Social Sciences (ICR) (JAPAN)
Centre for Social Work Research
International Conference on Social Sciences
International Social Science Council
Introduction to Hutchinson et al., There's No Such Thing as a Social Science
Intute: Social Sciences (UK)
Social Science Research Society Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
Social Science Virtual Library
Social Science Virtual Library: Canaktanweb (Turkish)
Social Sciences And Humanities
UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory
The Dialectic of Social Science Archived November 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine by Paul A. Baran
American Academy Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences Archived May 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
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