section_path: Branches
section_name: Branches
paragraph_text: Branches
  
  The social science disciplines are branches of knowledge taught and researched at the college or university level. Social science disciplines are defined and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned social science societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong. Social science fields of study usually have several sub-disciplines or branches, and the distinguishing lines between these are often both arbitrary and ambiguous.
  
  The following are problem areas, applied social sciences and discipline branches within the social sciences.