Human science

At the Human Sciences (English: human science) are sciences that deal with man as a research object. The term includes decidedly interdisciplinary work and transcends the German language area traditionally dominant differences between the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. " Human Sciences " thus partly coincides with the Anglo-Saxon meaning of the term " anthropology ". Human sciences distance themselves from the social sciences, primarily concerned with structures and processes at the macro level and use human scientific knowledge only as mechanisms of action within the framework of methodological individualism. Human sciences emphasize their interdisciplinary methodology that combines elements of classical humanities with those of the social and natural sciences.

Among the human sciences in this sense, among other things psychology, pedagogy, didactics, social work, anthropology, psychoanalysis, human biology, human medicine, nursing, human ethology, sociobiology, geography and the humanities and cultural sciences, such as history, ethnology and folklore and archeology can be counted. Economic and social sciences (such as sociology or political science ), and related humanities and social science disciplines (eg linguistics ) are usually not to the human sciences, but probably to the Humanities.