💡 Sample questions
1. Which field studies human social behaviour?
2. Who is often called the father of modern economics?
3. What do we call the study of the past through artefacts?
Sociology, economics, anthropology, political science and psychology — the category brings the language of social science down to bite-size questions.
Why this category is worth playing
Tell the social sciences apart in conversation
Connect famous theories to their authors
Recognise the methods behind the headlines
Understand how surveys and studies are framed
Find a discipline worth reading further
What to expect in Erudite
Sociology, economics, psychology and more
Famous thinkers, terms and case studies
Plain language without losing nuance
Short rounds for tight schedules
Steady stream of new questions
The science of us
Social sciences study the most complicated subject available: people in groups. The field's landmark findings read like plot twists. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" appears only briefly in The Wealth of Nations, yet became shorthand for an entire economic worldview. Pavlov was studying digestion when he discovered conditioning. The famous marshmallow test on delayed gratification has been re-examined and complicated by later research — itself a lesson in how social science actually works. A social sciences quiz gives you these stories in question form, which is a far better way to meet them than a dense syllabus.
The category spans sociology, economics, psychology, anthropology, political science and archaeology — six different lenses pointed at the same restless species.
Spot the theory hiding in your news feed
Once you know the vocabulary, you see social science everywhere: supply shocks in grocery prices, confirmation bias in your timeline, social mobility debates in election coverage. Social sciences trivia questions build that vocabulary one term at a time — opportunity cost, cognitive dissonance, soft power, the tragedy of the commons. Trivia about social sciences is ultimately a literacy project: it hands you the concepts that headlines assume you already have, and makes you measurably harder to mislead with a misread statistic.
There's a pleasant irony in the format, too: answering quiz questions about psychology means experiencing the very effects you're being asked about — the overconfidence before a wrong answer, the satisfying click of recall on a right one. No other category lets you be both the student and the experiment at once.
What does the Social Sciences quiz in Erudite cover?
The Social Sciences quiz in Erudite features 200+ questions about how societies, economies and minds actually work. Questions span several difficulty levels, and the category is free to play in the Erudite app for iOS and Android — 30K+ players have already picked it.
