such as those given by the London School of Economics, as the social sciences constitute one of the two main branches of science (the other being the natural sciences). In addition, some institutions have degrees for a particular social science, such as the Bachelor of Economics degree, though such specialized degrees are relatively rare in the United States. Graduate students may get a Master's degree (Master of Arts, Master of Science or a field-specific degree such as Master of Public Administration) or PhD. Low priority of social science Social sciences receive less funding than natural sciences. It has been estimated that only 0.12% of all funding for climate-related research is spent on the social science of climate change mitigation. Vastly more funding is spent on natural science studies of climate change and considerable sums are also spent on studies of the impact of and adaptation to climate change. It has been argued that this is a misallocation of resources, as the most urgent puzzle at the current juncture is to work out how to change human behavior to mitigate climate change, whereas the natural science of climate change is already well established and there will be decades and centuries to handle adaptation. People associated with the social sciences Al-Kindi Augustine Franz Boas Manuel Castells Confucius Wade Davis W.E.B. Dubois Louis Dumont Norbert Elias Friedrich Engels Frantz Fanon Milton Friedman Anthony Giddens Erving Goffman Maja Göpel Thomas Hobbes Arlie Hochschild David Hume Marie Jahoda John Maynard Keynes Ibn Khaldun Paul F. Lazarsfeld John Locke John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury Niklas Luhmann Niccolò Machiavelli Karl Marx Marcel Mauss Margaret Mead John Stuart Mill Baidyanath Misra Montesquieu Jean Piaget Steven Pinker Plato John Rawls David Ricardo Edward Said Jean-Baptiste Say Alfred Schutz B.F. Skinner Adam Smith Herbert Spencer Deborah Tannen Victor Turner See also General Outline of social science Humanities National Nothing Day Structure and agency Methods Ethnography Participatory action research Representation theory Other Ethnology Gulbenkian commission Labelling Obshestvovedeny Philosophy of social sciences Notes References Bibliography Michie, Jonathan, ed. Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences (2 vol. 2001) 1970 pages annotating the major topics in the late 20th century in all the social sciences. 20th and 21st centuries sources Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (2001). International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Amsterdam: Elsevier. Byrne, D.S. (1998). Complexity theory and the social sciences: an introduction. Routledge. Kuper, A., and Kuper,