Our object is to study the ways in which peoplehave tried to develop a scientific approach tothe investigation of human social behaviour. Butwe cannot begin by definitively stating what thismeans. As we shall see, the history of socialscience shows a great variety of approaches,and we shall have to note that there are manydifficult philosophical problems here that are asyet unresolved

not only in the School of Law, but also indepartments of Criminology, or ForensicStudies, Sociology, Economics, Philosophy,Political Science, and Psychology, some of whichare classified as social sciences and some not.He would find that in some universities Historyis classified as a social science and in others it isin another division, usually called ‘Humanities’.