NYUAD Social Science

At its core, the multidisciplinary field of Social Science is about people — their individual and collective behaviors and the societies they create. The disciplines in this field seek to deepen our understanding of how people behave in a wide variety of contexts and to assess the consequences of individual, group, and societal decisions. Collectively, Social Science seeks to explain and investigate the functioning of society, and address the vast array of pressing contemporary issues that affect individual and societal well-being. How does our broader environment affect how we develop as individuals and behave collectively in our communities? Why do our societies look the way they do, and why do they differ? What drives pervasive inequality within and across regions, and what policies and institutions affect this?