Social Sciences
Psychology, economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
43 topics in this category
American Political Ideologies
American political ideologies and policy.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the holistic study of human cultures, biology, languages, and past societies, using immersive fieldwork and comparative analysis to understand the full diversity of the human experience.
Behavioral Economics
The study of how psychological factors influence economic decisions, combining insights from psychology and economics.
Behavioral Neuroscience
The study of how the brain, nervous system, and neurotransmitters produce, regulate, and influence behavior, cognition, and emotion.
Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
How the Bill of Rights, 14th Amendment, and landmark Supreme Court cases protect individual freedoms and guarantee equal treatment under the law.
Clinical Psychology
The branch of psychology focused on diagnosing, treating, and preventing mental disorders through evidence-based assessment and therapeutic interventions.
Cognitive Anthropology
The study of how culture shapes human thought, examining the shared mental models, classification systems, and knowledge structures through which people in different societies organize their experience of the world.
Cognitive Neuroscience
The study of how brain structure and neural activity give rise to cognitive processes such as perception, memory, attention, language, and consciousness.
Cognitive Psychology
The scientific study of mental processes including perception, memory, attention, language, problem-solving, and decision-making.
Cognitive Science
The interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes, integrating psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology to understand perception, cognition, and intelligence.
Cultural Anthropology
The study of human cultures, beliefs, and social practices through ethnographic fieldwork and comparative analysis, seeking to understand the full diversity of human ways of life.
Cultural Sociology
The study of how shared meanings, symbols, and cultural practices shape social life, identity, and institutional structures.
Developmental Psychology
The scientific study of how people grow, change, and develop across the entire lifespan, from prenatal stages through aging and death.
Educational Psychology
The scientific study of how people learn, applying psychological theories to improve teaching, motivation, assessment, and instructional design.
Environmental Anthropology
The study of relationships between human societies and their natural environments, examining how culture, power, and ecology shape one another across diverse contexts.
Environmental Sociology
The study of reciprocal relationships between human societies and the natural environment, examining how social structures shape ecological outcomes and how environmental change affects social life.
Factor Markets
Analysis of labor, capital, and resource markets including derived demand, marginal revenue product, wage determination, and monopsony.
Has CalculatorForensic Anthropology
Forensic anthropology applies skeletal biology and osteological analysis to medicolegal investigations, focusing on the identification of human remains and the interpretation of bone trauma and taphonomic changes.
Forensic Psychology
Forensic psychology applies psychological science to legal and criminal justice questions, including criminal profiling, competency evaluations, risk assessment, and expert testimony in court proceedings.
Health Psychology
The study of how psychological, behavioral, and social factors influence physical health, illness, and healthcare, emphasizing the biopsychosocial model.
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
The scientific study of human behavior in the workplace, applying psychological principles to improve employee selection, performance, motivation, leadership, and organizational effectiveness.
Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistic anthropology studies how language shapes social life, cultural identity, and power relations across human societies, combining ethnographic methods with linguistic analysis.
Logical Fallacies
Study errors in reasoning such as ad hominem, straw man, false dichotomy, and slippery slope to strengthen your ability to evaluate and construct sound arguments.
Market Structures
Analysis of perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly and their effects on pricing, output, and efficiency.
Has CalculatorMedia Literacy
Develop the skills to evaluate sources, identify bias, distinguish misinformation from disinformation, and critically analyze media messages across all platforms.
Medical Anthropology
Medical anthropology studies how culture, society, and political-economic forces shape experiences of health, illness, and healing across diverse populations.
Motivation and Emotion
The psychological study of what drives behavior (motivation) and how we experience and express feelings (emotion), including major theories of each.
Party and Electoral Systems
Comparative analysis of party systems, electoral rules, interest groups, and citizen organizations across the six AP Comparative Government countries.
Physical Anthropology
The study of human biological evolution, physical variation, and adaptation, encompassing paleoanthropology, primatology, human genetics, and forensic anthropology.
Policy Tradeoffs
Explore how policymakers weigh competing goals, limited resources, and stakeholder interests when designing public policy, using tools like cost-benefit analysis and stakeholder mapping.
Political and Economic Changes and Development
Analysis of democratization, economic reform, globalization, and development challenges across the six AP Comparative Government countries.
Political Institutions in Comparative Perspective
Comparative analysis of executive, legislative, and judicial structures across the six AP Comparative Government countries.
Political Participation
How citizens participate in politics through voting, elections, parties, interest groups, campaign finance, and civic engagement.
Political Science
The study of governments, political systems, power dynamics, and public policy, examining how societies organize authority and make collective decisions.
Political Systems, Regimes, and Governments
The study of how political power is organized, legitimized, and exercised across different regime types with focus on the six AP Comparative Government countries.
Psychology — Neuroplasticity, Validity (extended)
The scientific study of mind and behavior, exploring how biological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors shape human thought, feeling, and action.
Has CalculatorPsychology
The scientific study of mind and behavior, exploring how biological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors shape human thought, feeling, and action.
Has CalculatorRural Sociology
The study of social structures, institutions, and processes in rural communities, focusing on agriculture, land use, poverty, migration, and community change.
Separation of Powers
Understand how the U.S. Constitution divides government authority among three branches and how checks and balances prevent any single branch from gaining too much power.
Social Anthropology
The comparative study of human societies and cultures through ethnographic fieldwork, examining how people organize social life, construct meaning, and build institutions across diverse communities.
Social Psychology
The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence and actions of others.
Sociology
The scientific study of human society, social institutions, relationships, and inequality, examining how social structures and cultural forces shape individual and collective behavior.
Urban Sociology
The study of social life, institutions, and inequalities in cities, examining how urbanization shapes human behavior, community structures, and the distribution of resources across metropolitan areas.