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Unit 6: Establishment of Social Science Research Institutions

Notes
y For students IACIS offers information about post-graduate study in the
United States as well as access to the library.
y Courses sponsored by UGC are open to all university students.
y As mentioned above, UGC plans to take over academic and physical
infrastructure available at IACIS and establish ‘UGC-IUC for International
Studies’, the first IUC for humanities and social sciences.

6.3 UGC-Inter University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences
(IUCHSS)

UGC has established four National Facility Centres in selected universities. One such centre is IUCHSS,
set up at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. The main objectives of the centre are to invite
teachers from universities and colleges to the Institute as Associate of the IUC, organise Research
Seminars for researchers and young teachers in universities and colleges and to organise “Study
Week” for discussing important problems of national and international interest.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. The ………….of human beings is influenced by biological, psychological, socio-cultural,
temporal and environmental factors.
2. In order to promote the social science research in the country the Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Government of India Indian established the Council of Social Science Research
(ICSSR) in……………….
3. ……………………was set up in 1969 as a division of ICSSR to provide library and information
support to social science community.
4. Indo-American Centre for International Studies (IACIS), founded in……………..
5. Main objective of ……………….for International Studies would be, to provide dynamic and
vibrant platform for research, to academicians from India, SAARC region, Central Asia and
other countries.

6.4 Social Science Problems

Because all knowledge is interrelated, there are inevitable problems in defining and cataloging
the social sciences. Often, it is difficult to know where one social science ends and another begins.
Not only are the individual social sciences interrelated, but the social sciences as a whole body
are also related to the natural sciences and the humanities. To understand history, it is helpful,
even necessary, to understand geography; to understand economics, it is necessary to understand
psychology. Similar arguments can be made for all of the social sciences. One of the difficulties
in presenting definitions and descriptions of the various social sciences is that social scientists
themselves don’t agree on what it is they do, or should be doing. In preparing this unit, we met
with groups of social scientists specializing in specific fields and asked them to explain what it
was that distinguished their field from others.

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