Social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study the aspects related to the human and social environment. Science is different from the arts and humanities because it emphasizes the use of scientific methods in studying humans, including quantitative and qualitative methods. This term also includes research illustrates the coverage in the field covering a variety of human behavior and interaction in the present and the past. Unlike the social sciences in general, IPS does not focus on one topic in depth but gives a broad overview of the community.
Social sciences, in studying aspects of society as subjective, inter-subjective, and objective or structural, previously considered to be less scientific when compared with the natural sciences. But now, some parts of the social sciences have much use quantitative methods. Similarly, interdisciplinary approaches and cross-disciplinary in social research on human behavior as well as social and environmental factors that influence has made a lot of natural science researchers interested in some aspects of the methodology of science sosial.Penggunaan quantitative and qualitative methods have been increasingly integrated into the study of the action humans as well as the implications and consequences.
Because it is a simplification of the social sciences, in Indonesia IPS serve as subjects for elementary school students (SD), and junior high school (SMP / junior). As for the level above it, ranging from senior high school (SMA) and colleges, social sciences studied by the branches of the science of the particular department or faculty that focuses on studying them.
sumber : wikipedia (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilmu_sosial)
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