Economics is a broad discipline that helps us understand historical trends, interpret

today's headlines, and make predictions about the coming years.

When studying national behavior, economists focus on issues such as a nation's

productivity, prices of goods in a nation, employment and unemployment and income
distributions. Economics is also concerned with the idea of making decisions when
there are many alternatives or choices.

Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and

its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but also how they
have changed and come to be. Geography is often defined in terms of two branches:
human geography and physical geography

History, the discipline that studies the chronological record of events (as affecting a
nation or people), based on a critical examination of source materials and usually
presenting an explanation of their causes. History is treated in a number of articles.

history refers to the study, knowledge, interpretation, and recording of the past in a
meaningful way. As an academic discipline, history is conducted by historians,
individuals who take the time to research, interpret, and put past events into context in a
recorded fashion.

Political Science as an Academic Discipline Political science draws upon the fields of
economics, law, sociology, history, anthropology, public administration, public policy,
national politics, international relations, comparative politics,
psychology, political organization, and political theory.

Sociology as a Discipline. ... Sociologists examine the shared meanings that humans
attach to their interactions with one another, and they study human experience as it
unfolds within societies over time. They study social patterns that are stable and also
those that are changing.

Demography is the study of human populations – their size, composition and

distribution across space – and the process through which populations change. Births,
deaths and migration are the 'big three' of demography, jointly producing population
stability or change.
The disciplines of economics. ... It is mathematical, it involves sophisticated models, it
makes use of enormous data sets, and it is invoked in the formulation of social and
economic policies in much the way that the science of mechanics is invoked in the
building of bridges.

Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and

its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but also how they
have changed and come to be. Geography is often defined in terms of two branches:
human geography and physical geography.

history refers to the study, knowledge, interpretation, and recording of the past in a
meaningful way. As an academic discipline, history is conducted by historians,
individuals who take the time to research, interpret, and put past events into context in a
recorded fashion.

Discipline Political science draws upon the fields of economics, law, sociology, history,
anthropology, public administration, public policy, national politics, international
relations, comparative politics, psychology, political organization, and political theory.

Sociology as a Discipline. ... Sociologists examine the shared meanings that humans
attach to their interactions with one another, and they study human experience as it
unfolds within societies over time. They study social patterns that are stable and also
those that are changing.

Demography also includes analysis of the economic, social, environmental, and

biological causes and consequences of population change. Although demography is a
discipline in its own right, it draws heavily on other fields, including biology, economics,
epidemiology, geography, and sociology.