The mission of Social Studies is to help young people develop competence in addressing the challenge of “the office of citizen.” The field of social studies encompasses several academic subjects drawn from the humanities and social sciences, including United States history, world history, geography, government, economics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. The central focus that unites those subjects is that they study people and human behavior in social and geographical contexts. Hence, they have much to offer to a field like social studies with its citizenship education mission.