Abstract: Globalization is the most important faced of modern society and it has been changing the public environment and public affairs profoundly. Social sciences take human society as the research subject and make many changes prominent， where as public policies aim at making solutions to social public issues， which exert coupling effect with social sciences. In the process of globalization， new developments in the research patterns of social sciences initiate the change of the ways to participate in public policy making. Globalization leads to the internationalization of public issues such as background internationalization， essence internationalization and solution internationalization， which causes new changes in research subjects， discipline setting， scientific research institutions and methodologies. In the meantime， such internationalizations and new changes are bound to affect the ways social sciences participate in public policy making.

Key words: globalization, social science, public policy