What is a Human Science ?

Human science (also, humanistic social science, moral science and human sciences as typical in the UK) is a term applied to the investigation of human life and human activities via a rational, systematic, and verifiable methodology that acknowledges the validity of both data derived by impartial observation of sensory experience (objective phenomena) and data derived by means of impartial observation of psychological experience (subjective phenomena). It includes but is not necessarily limited to fields of study commonly included within the social sciences and humanities, including PSYCHOLOGY, HISTORY, COMMUNICATION, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY. Its use of an empirical methodology that encompasses psychological experience contrasts to the purely positivistic approach typical of the natural science (which exclude all methods not based solely on external sensory observations). Thus the term is often used to distinguish not only the content of a field of study from those of the natural sciences, but also its methodology. Or as the Institute of Human Sciences at Oxford states it is an inter-disciplinary study of humans from the contrasting perspectives of the biological and social sciences and the connections between them.