Humanities and social sciences majors include philosophy, linguistics and art.
Humanism originally refers to knowledge related to human interests, which is different from theology dominated by the church in the Middle Ages. Later, the meaning has evolved several times, including philosophy, linguistics, art and so on.
Humanities is a science that takes the spiritual world of human beings and its precipitated spiritual culture as its object. Social science is a science that takes human society as the research object.
If the humanities mainly study people's thoughts, spirits, emotions and values, that is, people's subjective spiritual world and its accumulated spiritual culture, then the social sciences pay more attention to the objective human society, rather than specific individuals and their subjective world.
The humanities and social sciences face things with meaningful relationships;
Humanities should not only study commonness and universality, but also study particularity. It cannot be ruled out that we should also study contingency, significance and value. At the same time, its research on subject and object is not a one-dimensional relationship that people can't communicate with each other, but an understandable two-way interaction between people, just like natural science.
Although from the very beginning, they have an indissoluble bond with natural science, theoretical science and independent science, and even have a certain identity or blood relationship at the level of "science".
However, all this does not deny its timely emergence, development and expansion, and its special contribution to enriching the coverage of scientific concepts. In terms of research methods, humanities and social sciences draw lessons from some experiences and practices of natural science, but it has completely different research objects, research methods and research paths from natural science.
In the history of scientific development, together with natural science, * * * has supported a complete scientific "building", thus playing a unique and irreplaceable role in the prosperity of human science.