ITT: List the social sciences in decreasing order of hardnes

>>8122665
International relations (If you actually want a job and not a useless degree) > Economics > Linguistics > all the rest > Psychology > Sociology

Archeology and linguistics are subfields of anthropology...

>>8123247
What are the major divisions of social science?

All I can think of are Economics, Anthropology, and Psychology.

>>8124611
This webpage says
Social "science" is generally taken to include anthropology, economics, history, political "science," psychology and sociology.

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_subdivisions_of_social_sciences

>>8122665

>social sciences
>hard

Pick one.

>>8125186
>Law
>Not hard

>>8122665
the thing about linguistics is that it isn't really a single field, it's more of a collection of independent fields that share a department because they happen to involve language. there' a formal side of linguistics that basically nobody knows about. most people think it's about how people process language (psycholinguistics) or how language changes (historical linguistics) or how language affects social norms (sociolinguistics), but formal linguistics is all about describing language as a generative system. in fact, in the last ten years, a large amount of evidence has come out indicating that formal linguistics experiments like acceptability judgment studies are very reliable and easily replicable.
>>8123247
it depends what subfield of linguistics you're talking about, but really linguistic anthropology is not linguistics. formal linguistics like syntax and phonology has nothing to do with anthropology.

>>8125199

Yes, and? Law is an exercise in memorisation and quick witted bickering. There's little creativity or insight required.

>>8125811
>little creativity in law
wew lad

I'm not "in" psychology but from what I've seen it's got more scientific substance to it than say, international relations, so why so low? Or am I wrong in thinking that.