2. DISS
Subject Description:
The course introduces students to basic concepts,
subjects, and methods of inquiry in the disciplines that
comprise the Social Sciences.
It then discusses influential thinkers and ideas in these
disciplines, and relates these ideas to the Philippine setting
and current global trends.
15. SOCIAL SCIENCES
Scientific study of social, cultural,
psychological, economic, political forces
Relatively new
Knowledge about nature, growth, functioning
of human societies
Essential for learning about human condition
and improving it
16. SOCIAL SCIENCES
Encompass diverse concerns of society and
include a wide range of content
Cover major majority of academic disciplines
that concerned with society and the
relationships among individuals within society
17. SOCIAL SCIENCES
Main social sciences – economics, political
science, human geography, demography, and
sociology
Includes some fields in the humanities –
anthropology, archeology, psychology, history
and linguistics
18. SOCIAL SCIENCES
SOCIAL SCIENCE studies human beings – their
deportment/behavior, social order, beliefs, culture, no
matter how varied these are, through time and space
Leads to understanding all aspects of society and deals
with social problems
Aims at studying individuals and groups – how they
interact whether in small or large scales
Explains human actions – not mere human behavior
20. According to Harry Elmer Barnes…
Social Sciences were created
by the Industrial Revolution
Described as the greatest
transformation in the history
of humanity
Revolution that broke down
the foundations of the previous
social system
21. According to Harry Elmer Barnes…
As aid in solving the newly
created social problems to reconstruct
the disintegrating social
order
Sociology and other
social sciences came
into being
22. The Social Sciences focus on the study of
the following phenomenon.
Changes in human relationship
and reinterpretation between the
present and past events
Human activities, distributions,
and interaction of culture,
biological and physical elements
23. The Social Sciences focus on the study of
the following phenomenon.
Basic social systems, institutions
and niches
Relationships between individual and
institutions, and among political,
economic and social institutions
Nature of societies and thinkers, and the
interactions of people with each other and also
their social and physical environment
24. As Senior High School
learners, how do you use
the social science
in your daily living?
26. Things to Ponder…
The Social Sciences ask critical questions and
suggest evidence-based answers.
Social Sciences are the systematic pursuit
involving the recognition and formulation of a
problem, the collection of data through
observation and experiment, and the formulation
and testing of hypothesis.
Social Science is a scientific study of human
society and social relationships.
27. Individual Activity: Explain.
We do not see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
Learn to understand, understand
to change.
