We agree on economics, it’s more that techno-economic analysis is quite different (just had someone on my team do techno-economic work that would be relevant to this list, but she is maximally far from a social scientist in skillset and self-identification).
I think for some parts of social psychology it might be considered a social science, though in general most social scientists would say the definition of social science is something like “the dependent variable are societal-level phenomena” by which economics, political science, sociology etc. are social sciences, but psychology is clearly not (and in most universities, psychology would not be in the social sciences department).
But I think we agree on the broader point that the current title is a bit of a misnomer.
Social sciences are concerned with much more than societal level phenomena. Relationships and interactions between people count, too.
FWIW, my experience in Canada has been that psychology is typically part of the faculty of social sciences (or a combined one with humanities and/or arts).
We agree on economics, it’s more that techno-economic analysis is quite different (just had someone on my team do techno-economic work that would be relevant to this list, but she is maximally far from a social scientist in skillset and self-identification).
I think for some parts of social psychology it might be considered a social science, though in general most social scientists would say the definition of social science is something like “the dependent variable are societal-level phenomena” by which economics, political science, sociology etc. are social sciences, but psychology is clearly not (and in most universities, psychology would not be in the social sciences department).
But I think we agree on the broader point that the current title is a bit of a misnomer.
Social sciences are concerned with much more than societal level phenomena. Relationships and interactions between people count, too.
FWIW, my experience in Canada has been that psychology is typically part of the faculty of social sciences (or a combined one with humanities and/or arts).