sozialwissenschaftliche

Sozialwissenschaftliche is an inflected German adjective derived from Sozialwissenschaft, the field commonly translated as social science. It functions to describe nouns related to the social sciences and is not used as a stand-alone noun. The base noun can be Sozialwissenschaft (singular) or Sozialwissenschaften (plural).

It appears in phrases such as sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung (social science research), sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden (social-science methods), sozialwissenschaftliche Daten (data from social science research), or sozialwissenschaftliche Theorie (theory in the social sciences). In university and research contexts it may modify terms like Fakultät, Institut, or Abteilung, e.g., sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät (Faculty of Social Sciences).

Social sciences cover sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, psychology, human geography, and related disciplines. The adjective also forms the adverbial form sozialwissenschaftlich, which describes methods or analyses, e.g., sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden used in studies. The term emphasizes interdisciplinary study of human society beyond natural sciences.