human science
(also human sciences)
noun [mass noun]
A branch of study which deals with people or their actions, including the social sciences and the humanities, as contrasted with the natural sciences or physical sciences: she has a degree in human science a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences...
- Students who want to major in social and human sciences can submit applications if their scores reach 139 points.
- This fund is designated for students who are involved in advanced research in the humanities and human sciences.
- He classed philosophy among the human sciences.
Derivatives
human scientist
- The results of this research have relevance to literary scholars and to human scientists.
- The theory has been known to human scientists since the twentieth century.
- This study was designed to improve substantially on previous attempts to define literary universals by drawing upon theory and methods used by human scientists to fruitfully explore and explain human universals.