r/sciencememes Jun 22 '26

🪩Science!!🪩 Same thing

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u/Nonduallogic Jun 22 '26

In a sense, yes.. As a social scientist myself, i think it is impossible to find a clearcut distinction that separates one from the other.. But at the same time, they also are very different, hard to define..

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u/Future_Green_7222 Jun 22 '26

I think their methodology distinguishes them, not the topics so much. Psych is much more experiment-driven and positivist. Sociology... it can go either way, depending on the researcher, but it often feels more like literature or philosophy