社会科学是什么“社会科学”这一词的定义似乎有好几百种。我不想一一枚举。我只是任意选择,引用《韦伯斯特新词典》第三版上的定义和《国际社会科学百科全书》中的注释,作为本章的引言。本文更重要的目的是,“社会科学”这一词在分类法、情报源和情报服务中是怎样理解的。为 What is social science There seems to be hundreds of definitions of the term “social sciences”. I do not want to list them one by one. I am just an alternative, citing the definitions in the third edition of the Webster's New Dictionary and the comments in the International Encyclopedia of Social Science as an introduction to this chapter. The more important purpose of this article is to understand how the term “social sciences” is used in taxonomies, sources and information services. for