ABSTRACT
Social science is an organized method of research combining empirical observations of behavior with inductive and deductive logic to confirm and test theories that are then used to describe and/or predict human activity. The process of social science dates back to the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. Theory is one of the most important factors for a social scientist. Stephen fondly remembers Michael Pfau talking about how one of the goals of a social scientist is theory-testing and theory-building. A standard scientific practice is to repeat experiments to make sure they work the same way for every researcher every time. A researcher should be a disinterested scholar, one who observes and reports on phenomena without allowing values or morals to interfere. Value-free research is the ideal for social science. One important criterion for a social scientist when it comes to observation is that the method must be empirical, objective, and controlled.
