The Academy recognises the following academic disciplines as being within the scope of social science; as listed in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
| FoR Code | Discipline |
| 33 | Built Environment and Design |
| 3301 | Architecture |
| 3302 | Building |
| 3303 | Design |
| 3304 | Urban and regional planning |
| 3399 | Other built environment and design |
| 35 | Commerce, management, tourism, and services |
| 3501 | Accounting, auditing and accountability |
| 3502 | Banking, finance and investment |
| 3503 | Business systems in context |
| 3504 | Commercial services |
| 3505 | Human resources and industrial relations |
| 3506 | Marketing |
| 3507 | Strategy, management and organisational behaviour |
| 3508 | Tourism |
| 3509 | Transportation, logistics and supply chains |
| 3599 | Other commerce, management, tourism and services |
| 38 | Economics |
| 3801 | Applied economics |
| 3802 | Econometrics |
| 3803 | Economic theory |
| 3899 | Other economics |
| 380202 | Econometric and statistical methods |
| 380301 | History of economic thought |
| 39 | Education |
| 3901 | Curriculum and pedagogy |
| 3902 | Education policy, sociology and philosophy |
| 3903 | Education systems |
| 3904 | Specialist studies in education |
| 3999 | Other Education |
| 42 | Health Sciences |
| 4201 | Allied health and rehabilitation science |
| 4202 | Epidemiology |
| 4203 | Health services and systems |
| 4204 | Midwifery |
| 4205 | Nursing |
| 4206 | Public health |
| 4207 | Sports science and exercise |
| 4208 | Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine |
| 4299 | Other health sciences |
| 43 | History, heritage, and archaeology |
| 4301 | Archaeology |
| 4302 | Heritage, archive and museum studies |
| 4303 | Historical studies |
| 4399 | Other history, heritage and archaeology |
| 44 | Human Society |
| 4401 | Anthropology |
| 4402 | Criminology |
| 4403 | Demography |
| 4404 | Development studies |
| 4405 | Gender studies |
| 4406 | Human geography |
| 4407 | Policy and administration |
| 4408 | Political science |
| 4409 | Social work |
| 4410 | Sociology |
| 4499 | Other human society |
| 45 | Indigenous Studies |
| 4501 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history |
| 4502 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education |
| 4503 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges and management |
| 4504 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing |
| 4505 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community |
| 4506 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sciences |
| 4507 | Te ahurea, reo me te hītori o te Māori (Māori culture, language and history) |
| 4508 | Mātauranga Māori (Māori education) |
| 4509 | Ngā mātauranga taiao o te Māori (Māori environmental knowledges) |
| 4510 | Te hauora me te oranga o te Māori (Māori health and wellbeing) |
| 4511 | Ngā tāngata, te porihanga me ngā hapori o te Māori (Māori peoples, society and community) |
| 4512 | Ngā pūtaiao Māori (Māori sciences) |
| 4513 | Pacific Peoples culture, language and history |
| 4514 | Pacific Peoples education |
| 4515 | Pacific Peoples environmental knowledges |
| 4516 | Pacific Peoples health and wellbeing |
| 4517 | Pacific Peoples sciences |
| 4518 | Pacific Peoples society and community |
| 4519 | Other Indigenous data, methodologies and global Indigenous studies |
| 4599 | Other Indigenous studies |
| 47 | Language, Communication and Culture |
| 4701 | Communication and media studies |
| 4702 | Cultural studies |
| 4703 | Language Studies |
| 4704 | Linguistics |
| 4705 | Literary Studies |
| 4799 | Other language, communication and culture |
| 48 | Law and legal studies |
| 4801 | Commercial law |
| 4802 | Environmental and resources law |
| 4803 | International and comparative law |
| 4804 | Law in context |
| 4805 | Legal systems |
| 4806 | Private law and civil obligations |
| 4807 | Public law |
| 4899 | Other law and legal studies |
| 50 | Philosophy and religious studies |
| 5001 | Applied ethics |
| 5002 | History and philosophy of specific fields |
| 5003 | Philosophy |
| 5004 | Religious studies |
| 5005 | Theology |
| 5099 | Other philosophy and religious studies |
| 52 | Psychology |
| 5201 | Applied and developmental psychology |
| 5202 | Biological psychology |
| 5203 | Clinical and health psychology |
| 5204 | Cognitive and computational psychology |
| 5205 | Social and personality psychology |
| 5299 | Other psychology |