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They're two pretty different subjects. One teaches about grammar, rhetoric, vocabulary, how to express ideas in words and how to understand others' expressions. The other is about our interactions with the humans around us, whether in written form or not, whether in English or not. A big part of my social studies courses was about people who didn't even know English.
Social studies and language go hand in hand, and learning both at the same time is way more efficient than separated, which is why for example in Sweden, Swedish class includes mostly local but also some global cultural studies, litterature, religion, etc.
English class includes some of British and American culture studies as well.
We don't have a class only for social studies, we get graded on both at the same time based on the knowledge we present, and how proficient we are at presenting in written and verbal form.
Maybe it's because this is how I grew up that I think it is better, but I just don't see the point in separating them.
Sounds like you didn't have a combined class, you just didn't have a social studies class. Naturally learning about literature introduces you to broader topics about social systems, but if you didn't study society specifically, then you didn't have a social studies class.
We did study specifically about social studies though, it was a segment of Swedish class that lasted a few weeks every year throughout the second half of elementary school. Though it looks like there was one single class in high school, and it looks like I had it too. Maybe I just forgot. Before that it was all one class though.
Interesting. I wonder why Sweden doesn't (or didn't) break it out into its own thing.