This slide is for the first week quarter 1

1. Discipline and Ideas
in the Social Sciences
Specialized subject for
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

2. Lesson 1:
NATURE OF SOCIAL
SCIENCES ,
NATURAL SCIENCES,
AND HUMANITIES

3. LEARNING COMPETENCY:
DIFFERENTIATE THE NATURE
AND FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL
SCIENCE DISCIPLINE WITH
THE NATURAL SCIENCES AND
HUMANITIES.

4. -GREECE
-ROME
-INDIA
The political and social atmosphere of ancient
Favored the growth of intellectual exercises

5. Known thinkers of this period includes
HERODOTUS
THE FATHER OF
HISTORY
ARISTOTLE
THE FATHER OF
POLITICAL SCIENCE

6. THE TRADITION OFREASONING ESTABLISHED
• SOCRATES
• PLATO
• ARISTOTLE
CONTINUED DURING THE AGE OF RENAISSANCE
AND ENGLIGHTENMENT IN THE 17TH AND
18 CENTURIES

7. THE INTELLECTUAL ATMOSPHERE
OF THE PERIOD LED INTO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF
SOCIAL
SCIENCES
19TH
CENTURY

8. IN THIS LESSON
• THE NATURE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
• WHAT MAKES IT UNIQUES FROM THE
NATURAL SCIENCES AND
HUMANITIES

9. SCIENCE
•AN ENDEAVOR TO UNDERSTAND,
EXPLAIN AND PREDICT THE WORLD
WE LIVE IN USING DISTINCTIVE
METHODS OF ENQUIRY IN AN
ATTEMPT TO CONSTRUCT
THEORIES

10. • IT IS HOWEVER, NOT EASY TO FIND A SET OF
FEATURES THAT DEFINE WHAT SEPARATES SCIENCES
FROM OTHER ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND AND
EXPLAIN THE WORLD
- RELIGION
- ASTROLOGY
- FORTUNE TELLING
WHICH ARE NOT GENERALLY REGARDED AS BRANCHES
OF SCIENCES

11. VARIOUS AUTHOR DEFINED SOCIAL SCIENCES
•ANZENBACHER AND CHMIELEWICS
•NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES –
ARE BOTH REAL SCIENCES AS OPPOSED
TO FORMAL SCIENCES WHICH
SOLVE IMAGINARY PROBLEMS SUCH
AS MATHEMATICS AND THEORITICAL
COMPUTER SCIENCE

12. OTHER AUTHORS SEPARATE REAL
SCIENCES INTO CATEGORIES
•LITERARY STUDIES
(MEDICINES)
•APPLIED SCIENCES
(APPLIED SCIENCES)

13. NATURAL SCIENCES
• A SYSTEMATIC ENTERPRISE THAT BUILDS AND
ORGANIZES KNOWLEDGE IN THE FORM OF
TESTABLE EXPLANATIONS AND PREDICTIONS
ABOUT THE UNIVERSE

14. LEDOUX
DEFINES NATURAL
SCIENCES AS
“DISCIPLINES
THAT DEAL ONLY
WITH NATURAL
EVENTS USING
SCIENTIFIC
METHODS

15. •WHILE THE EMPLOYMENT OF
SCIENTIFIC METHODS IS
GENERALLY REGARDED AS
TYPICAL BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE
OF NATURAL SCIENCES

16. •IT IS FOCUSES ON
NATURAL EVENTS
THAT DISTINGUISHES
NATURAL FROM
SOCIAL SCIENCE

17. SOCIAL SCIENCES
•DEALS WITH THE
DIFFERENT ASPECTS
OF HUMAN SOCIETY

18. SOCIAL SCIENCES
•STUDIES THE MANNER OF
INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR AND
HOW SOCIETY INFLUENCES
THE SAID BEHAVIOUR
•PROVIDE EXPLANATION ON
HOW A SOCIETY WORKS FROM
SMALL SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
TO BIG SCALE GOVERNANCE
AND ECONOMY

19. •BRANCH OUT INTO
SUBFIELDS THAT STUDIES
ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIO-
CULTURAL HUMAN
BEHAVIOR

20. BRANCH
•ANTHROPOLOGY
•PSYCHOLOGY
•GEOGRAPHY
•POLITICAL SCIENCE
•ECONOMY

21. DISCIPLINES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
• VIEWED AS THOSE THAT DEAL
WITH “HUMAN SOCIETY, SOCIETAL
GROUPS, INDIVIDUALS IN THEIR
RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS OR
INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIETIES AND
MATERIAL GOODS AS EXPRESSION
OF HUMAN COHABITATION
(BAYER, 1992)

22. •THIS DEFINITIONS SHOWS THE
DIFFICULTY OF GRASPING ALL
ASPECTS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
AS OPPOSED TO NATURAL
SCIENCES, WHICH HAVE A
COMMON PERSPECTIVE RATHER
THAN A COMMON SUBJECT OF
STUDY.

23. •THE DISTINCTION
BETWEEN SOCIAL AND
CULTURAL SCIENCES AND
HUMANITIES IS
CONTROVERSIAL.