What They Have in Common
Analytical writing and critical interpretation
Engagement with power, inequality, and social change
Research skills, source evaluation, and evidence-based argument
Key Differences
History: primary sources, archives, temporal analysis / Social sciences: surveys, interviews, statistics, present-focused
History: interpretive and narrative / Social sciences: empirical and quantitative or qualitative
History: cultural sector and humanities careers / Social sciences: policy, NGO, and research careers
Choose History & Cultural Studies if…
You are fundamentally interested in how the past shaped the present, and you want to work with historical sources and interpretation as your primary method.
Choose Social Sciences if…
You are interested in understanding and influencing present social conditions, and you want empirical research tools to do it.
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