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Social science - Wikipedia

I chose this article because I am generally interested in these topics; I've taken classes in many of the subfields listed and much of the linguistics work I'm interested in intersects the social sciences in some way.

With regards to the content, I think it's decently relevant because the field is always evolving and it covers the newer concepts, like archaeology and linguistics, as well as the first sciences considered, like sociology. It is pretty coherent, however, it's broken up into abrupt chunks based on subfield rather than really encompassing the broader topics or integrating them. It's thorough enough for those fields, though.

It is relatively neutral, and the only reason/place for it to include different points of view would be when it addresses why more subfields have been added to the umbrella of "social science" over the years, i.e. why they became relevant in a certain social climate.

The quality and legitimacy of the sources seems to check out, however, most of the sources are pretty dated. Most from >20 years ago, with the most recent being one from last year and only a few others from this decade, so the sources could probably use some updating.