ABSTRACT
This chapter describes social science, explains why it is important and provides the various social sciences. It discusses some reasonable approaches to problems in social science. The chapter aims to differentiate the historical method from the case method and the comparative method. It explores educated common sense from common sense. The chapter explains why a good scientist is always open to new ways of looking at issues. It deals with groups of social scientists specializing in specific fields and asked them to explain what distinguishes their field from others. There are advantages and disadvantages to specialization, and many social problems today are dealt with by teams of various social scientists. The new unified social scientists will know the general rules of the individual social sciences and the rules of how one social science interacts with another, but they will not know all the specific facts of any one of them.
