Sozialwissenschaftlichen

Sozialwissenschaftlichen is the inflected form of the German adjective sozialwissenschaftlich, meaning sociological or social-scientific. The base adjective sozialwissenschaftlich describes topics, methods, or materials that pertain to the social sciences. Its inflected forms—such as sozialwissenschaftliche, sozialwissenschaftlichen, and others—vary according to grammatical case, number, and gender. The related noun Sozialwissenschaften denotes the field as a discipline, and is capitalized.

The social sciences (Sozialwissenschaften) encompass disciplines that study human society and social behavior, including sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, human geography, demography, and criminology. The adjective sozialwissenschaftlich is commonly used to qualify research, theories, and methodologies within these fields. Examples include sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung (social-science research), sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien (social-science theories), and sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden (social-science methods). The term is often used in interdisciplinary work that combines approaches from several social-science disciplines.

In comparison to the related term soziologisch, which more specifically denotes sociological perspectives or the discipline of sociology, sozialwissenschaftlich has a broader scope tied to the scientific study of social phenomena across multiple disciplines. In German writing, Sozialwissenschaften is a noun and is capitalized, while sozialwissenschaftlich remains lowercase when used as an attributive adjective. The term appears in academic articles, project titles, and institutional descriptions to signal methodological orientation or subject matter within the social sciences.