Social Sciences constitute a broad field of knowledge and deal with human beings in relation to their social behaviour. Social Sciences study the concepts or issues like culture, tradition, lifestyles, places, and environment, power and authority, governance, economy, civic sense, etc. which have social implications. While physical sciences are concerned with physical concepts or issues like stone, matter, force, area, distance, heat, etc., social sciences deal with human beings and their relation to each other in society at different places and times. 

NCF 2005: 

• It is a document that seeks to provide a framework within which teachers and schools can choose and plan experiences that they think children should have.
• It addresses four issues such as educational purpose, educational experience, organization of experience, and assessing the learner. 

• According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the social science curriculum should attempt to raise students' knowledge by critically analysing and questioning common social facts. There are several opportunities to incorporate new aspects and issues, particularly in light of students' own life experiences. As a result, selecting and structuring content into a relevant curriculum that would allow pupils to develop a critical perspective of society is a difficult endeavour.
• The aim of education in Social Science should be to enable students to analyze socio-political reality. These are issues that are regulated by a political policy that affect whole societies like global warming, communicable disease control, radioactive waste disposal, resource management, fish and wildlife, and biotechnology. 
• Developing concepts and the ability to assess social reality must take precedence over simply remembering facts without understanding them.

Hence, it is concluded that according to NCF 2005, the aim of education in Social Science should be to enable students to analyse socio-political reality.