It can be, but Applied Science is too general a term. It is taking what a bunch of guys are doing in a lab and turning it into something useful that can make a profit. ex. Two guys in a lab were...
I'm not quite shore what you're asking. Science is hard to define as it is a study of many areas through experimentation. Social science is the study of people and people, usually defined into...
social science? it depends on what your talking about. To some it's social studies. If i am sure, i think you mean foresinc science, which is a field of science.