What is Human Science?
Human Science is the study of human beings, by human beings, and for human beings.
It uses the perspectives, methods, and theories of the behavioral, biological, cognitive, economic, policy, and social sciences.
It uses human rationality to understand human irrationality, abstract reasoning to understand personal feelings, mathematics to understand emotions, and graphs to study social movements.
It deals with human life at many scales; from the individual person, to the family, the workplace, the society, the nation, the culture.
It deals with how individuals relate to themselves, to their own and other groups, and to their gods.
It deals with how individuals create and are created by history, the physical world, and culture.
It deals with the natural and the contrived, with the laws of physics, the laws of nations, and everything in between.
It deals with dysfunctional as well as successful social, organizational, and political systems. |
