Humanities, arts, and social sciences

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Humanities, arts, and social sciences (HASS) is a broad term used to group together the academic disciplines of humanities, arts and social sciences. It is used as an academic counterpart to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries.[1][2][3] HASS graduates comprise the majority of the workforce in many developed countries (e.g. 64% in Australia).[1] However, HASS subjects often receive a lower governmental funding and can have lower reputation within universities.[2][4] There is a measured relationship between citizens' HASS awareness with more accurate threat perceptions, high community activity, and cultural engagement at the local level.[5]

In 2020 an initiative for the UK rebranded the HASS acronym for humanities, the arts and social sciences as SHAPE, Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy, to promote and highlight the importance of these subjects in education, society and the economy.[6]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Turner, Graeme, author. (2014). Mapping the humanities, arts and social sciences in Australia. ISBN 978-0-909897-70-3. OCLC 896812524.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Benneworth, Paul; Jongbloed, Ben W. (2009-07-31). "Who matters to universities? A stakeholder perspective on humanities, arts and social sciences valorisation". Higher Education. 59 (5): 567–588. doi:10.1007/s10734-009-9265-2. ISSN 0018-1560.
  3. ^ Cunningham, Stuart (2008). University and discipline cluster ranking systems and the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Routledge. OCLC 752560834.
  4. ^ Universitat Politècnica de València. Instituto de Gestión de la Innovación y del Conocimiento - Institut de Gestió de la Innovació i del Coneixement Olmos-Peñuela, Julia Benneworth, P. CASTRO-MARTINEZ, ELENA (2014). Are 'STEM from Mars and SSH from Venus'?: Challenging disciplinary stereotypes of research's social value. Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy F - Oxford Open Option D. OCLC 1006871164.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Rudd, Murray (2015-04-30). "Awareness of Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS) Research Is Related to Patterns of Citizens' Community and Cultural Engagement". Social Sciences. 4 (2): 313–338. doi:10.3390/socsci4020313. ISSN 2076-0760.
  6. ^ Black, Julia (2 November 2020). "SHAPE – A Focus on the Human World". Social Science Space. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
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