What's the difference between the social sciences and the humanities?

answers1: Linguistics is primarily a social science, although it has a
foot in each camp. <br>
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The Humanities study the products of human culture. Art, literature,
philosophy, theatre, cultural studies, Classics, etc. It is all purely
subjective analysis...it looks for "meaning", not knowledge. the study
of languages (meaning learning how to speak and write languages) is a
Humanities subject as well, which relates to Linguistics. <br>
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Social Sciences are just like the natural sciences in that they use
the scientific method to gain new knowledge about things. Social
sciences are things like psychology, sociology, anthropology,
economics, political science, and history. (History is another one
that is both a Humanity and a Social Science.) Linguistics falls into
this category most of all because it is the academic study of how
languages develop. <br>
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Linguistics is the study of languages. *Not* the study of any language
in particular; you won't learn how to speak any new languages by
studying linguistics. Linguistics looks at the structures of human
languages, and how they have developed over thousands of years.
Syntax, morphology (letters and spelling), phonetics, interpretation
and change of word meanings (semantics and pragmatics), all that good
stuff.