Where I'm from we don't really use the term 'Liberal Arts' and instead we generally refer to the specific field (psychology, philosophy, literature, etc.). The

Where I'm from we don't really use the term 'Liberal Arts' and instead we generally refer to the specific field (psychology, philosophy, literature, etc.). The only group-term we use is 'social sciences', but at least at my university the overlap in classes, especially the first two years, justified that label. Much less dinging by proximity going on because of that, I think. It's generally accepted that studying philosophy is much more difficult than social sciences, for example. Of course, as a result we probably have a richer collection of more specific stereotypes for each field though.