political science
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3.3
- noun
- /pəˈlɪtɪkəl ˈsaɪəns/
- Specialized
:
ciencia política
- I studied political science in college because I wanted to understand how governments operate.
- political science professor
- political science department
- political science at university
OK, we we now have our introduction to political science and political philosophy.
- OK, we we now have our introduction to political science and political philosophy.
- Michael received his BA in political science and human biology from Stanford University.
- It was a big controversy at UCLA in the political science department.
- OK, let's talk about political science.
- I'm a recent college graduate studying political science.
- So I became a political science major and a minor in English for writing.
- Like I made a career out of studying political science so that this guy could call some old guy.
- She is the associate director for academic affairs at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science by courtesy at Stanford.
- He graduates from John Hopkins, a place where he's going to be connected with later on with a PhD in political science.
- OK, I, you know, when I find people that major in political science, I just, I kind of nod my head, no, that's not a science.
- I remember and this stuck with me undergrad, I was taking political science and the professor extended lecture on this and it still rings true for me.
- The expectation is that if you're wanting a PhD in, let's say, political science, you need a masters in CS or computer science or statistics.
- So Maher Arar was is a political science professor at the University of Toronto and he's ethnically Tunisian.
- You studied political science as if I'm getting my facts straight.
Examples
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I was once a political science major.
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Michael received his BA in political science and human biology from Stanford University.
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Four years of political science will do that to you.
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We're learning political science right now.
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Now, as students of political science.
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So I became a political science major and a minor in English for writing.
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The courses are English, history and political science.
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She's a professor... of political science at the University of Virginia.
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I had been sent to Moscow on a scholarship with a promising future in political science.
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Peter M. Haas is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
∞
2.8
Work or study about government, laws, and public decisions
Antonyms
How Specialized
1
5.7
- Specialized
49
3.3
- Literature
212
3.7
- Literature
241
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'study of government, political institutions, and political behavior' is directly derivable from combining 'political' (relating to politics) with 'science' (a systematic field of study). This modifier + head noun composition is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun political science comes from political (about public life and government) and science (careful study). It began when people wanted to study how cities, states, and leaders work in a clear, organized way, so today the phrase means 'the study of government and how people and leaders act in politics'.