This document provides an overview of the social sciences and how they are classified in the Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal systems. It describes several key social sciences disciplines including statistics, economics, sociology, education, commerce, and law. Statistics involves the collection and analysis of data. Economics examines the production, consumption and distribution of goods and services. Sociology is the study of human society and social problems. Education involves the transfer of knowledge between generations. Commerce refers to buying and selling, while law establishes rules and guidelines to govern behavior with areas like criminal law, civil law, and international law.

2. Social Sciences
A group of academic disciplines
that examine society and how
people interact and develop as a
culture.

3. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
CLASSIFICATION
 Subclass H Social sciences (General)
 Subclass HA Statistics
 Subclass HB Economic theory. Demography
 Subclass HC Economic history and conditions
 Subclass HD Industries. Land use. Labor
 Subclass HE Transportation and communications
 Subclass HF Commerce
 Subclass HG Finance
 Subclass HJ Public finance
 Subclass HM Sociology (General)
 Subclass HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social
reform
 Subclass HQ The family. Marriage. Women
 Subclass HS Societies: secret, benevolent

4. DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
 300Social sciences
 300Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
 310Statistics
 320Political science
 330Economics
 340Law
 350Public administration & military science
 360Social problems & social services
 370Education
 380Commerce, communications & transportation
 390Customs, etiquette & folklore

5.  Subclass HA Statistics
 310Statistics

6. Statistics
 Statistics is the study of the collection,
organization, analysis, interpretation and
presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of
data, including the planning of data collection in
terms of the design of surveys and experiments.

7.  Subclass HB Economic theory. Demography
 Subclass HC Economic history and conditions
 Subclass HG Finance
 Subclass HJ Public finance
 330Economics

8. Economics
 Economics is a social science which analyzes
the production, consumption and
distribution of goods and services.
Economics attempts to explain how
economies and economic agents work, and
applies models in order to analyze primarily
business finance, and government.

9. Microeconomics
 Microeconomics is the most essential in
understanding the economy as a system. The prefix
"micro-" refers to small-scale interaction and refers to
households as firms interacting in the market for
consumption of goods. Some of the most vital topics in
the study of microeconomics are markets, efficiency,
supply and demand, opportunity cost, game theory
and market failure.

10. Macroeconomics
 Macroeconomics, unlike microeconomics, examines
the economy as a whole. The prefix "macro-" refers to
large-scale interactions. Some topics included in
macroeconomics are inflation, GDP (gross domestic
product), pricing, savings and investment, market
growth, development, unemployment and
competition.

11. Finance
 The management of large amounts of money, esp. by
governments or large companies.

12. Public finance
 is the study of the role of the government in the
economy.[1] It is the definitive branch
of Economics which assesses the Government
revenue and Government expenditure of the Public
Authorities and the adjustment of one or the other to
achieve desirable effects and avoid undesirable ones.[2]

13.  Subclass HM Sociology (General)
 Subclass HQ The family. Marriage. Women
 Subclass HS Societies: secret, benevolent
 Subclass HN Social history and conditions. Social
problems. Social reform
 390Customs, etiquette & folklore
 370Education
 300Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
 320Political science
 360Social problems & social services
 350Public administration & military science

14. Sociology
The study of the development,
structure, and functioning of human
society.
The study of social problems.

15. Education
Education in its general sense is a
form of learning in which
the knowledge, skills, andhabits of a
group of people are transferred from
one generation to the next through
teaching, training, or research.

16.  Subclass HF Commerce
 Subclass HE Transportation and communications
 380Commerce, communications & transportation

17. Commerce
The activity of buying and selling,
esp. on a large scale.
Social dealings between people.

18.  Subclass HD Industries. Land use. Labor
 340Law

19. Law
 Law is a term which does not have a universally
accepted definition,[2] but one definition is that law is
a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced
through social institutions to govern behavior.

20. Two main areas
 Criminal law deals with conduct that is considered
harmful to social order and in which the guilty party
may be imprisoned or fined.
 Civil law (not to be confused with civil law
jurisdictions above) deals with the resolution
of lawsuits (disputes) between individuals or
organizations.

21. Civil Law
 Contract lawregulates everything from buying a bus
ticket to trading on derivatives markets.
 Property law regulates the transfer and title
of personal property and real property.
 Trust law applies to assets held for investment and
financial security.
 Tort law allows claims for compensation if a person's
property is harmed.

22.  Constitutional law provides a framework for the
creation of law, the protection of human rights and the
election of political representatives.
 Administrative lawis used to review the decisions of
government agencies.
 International lawgoverns affairs between sovereign
states in activities ranging from trade to military
action.