2. OBJECTIVES:
1. Define Social Science as a study of society.
2. Explain the importance of Social Science.
3. Compare and contrast social sciences,
natural sciences and humanities.
4. This course introduces you to basic concepts, subjects
and methods of inquiry in the disciplines that
compromise 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.
8. 1. What are your observations about the pictures?
9. 2. Do the pictures represent your community?
Why?
10. 3. Do you think that Social Science plays an
important role in your daily life? Why?
11. What is Social Science?
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12. SOCIAL SCIENCE
The disciplines of social sciences are viewed as those that deal with
“human society, societal groups, individuals in their relationships with
others or institutions of societies and material goods as expression of
human cohabitation” (Bayer, 1992).
13. SOCIAL SCIENCE
Social Science is the study of the historical, cultural, sociological,
psychological and the political forces that shape the actions of
individuals and its impact on society. Questions such as who is
responsible to a certain events, how does it happen, why does it
happen may be answered by the different disciplines under the social
sciences, which look into the historical, cultural, sociological,
psychological and the political forces that shape the actions of
individuals and its impact on society.
14. SOCIAL SCIENCE
Simply put, Social Science is the study of society. It is a useful
instrument in understanding the complexities and issues involved in
the interrelationships of the different variables that produce the state
of affairs at every level in society. (The Padayon Series: Discipline and
Ideas in the Social Sciences, Phoenix Publishing House, p. 6)
17. WHAT ARE THE WORDS
RELATED TO SOCIAL SCIENCE?
NATURAL SCIENCE?
18. Social Science is different from natural science and
humanities because its primary interest lies in predicting
and explaining human behavior. Natural Science on the
other hand, aims to predict all natural phenomena and
its studies are based on experimentally controlled
condition of material entities. Humanism seeks to
understand “human interactions to events and the
meanings humans impose on experience as a function of
culture, historical era, and life history”. (Kagan, 2009, p.
4)
19. ACTIVITY 3 : CONTEXTUALIZING SOCIAL
SCIENCE DISCIPLINES
20. SITUATION APPROPRIATE SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINE
1. Evaluation of the career path with respect to the qualifications of
the individual employees in your company.
2. An analysis of the consumption patterns among housewives in a
middle-income community.
3. A description of the different cultural practices of the Igorots.
4. An analysis on the cause of fraternity wars and gang violence.
5. An analysis of voting behaviour among young adults
6. A policy recommendation on how to raise the incidence of birth in
countries that have an aging population.
7. A study on what causes severe depression which leads to suicide.
8. An inquiry on how colonial occupation has changed the values of
the native population
9. An investigation of areas or location where the incidence of
earthquakes are most likely to occur.
10. An inquiry on the causes of juvenile delinquency among
