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1. DISCIPLINES
AND IDEAS IN
APPLIED
SOCIAL
SCIENCES • Quarter 2 –
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2. FUNCTIONS OF
APPLIED
SOCIAL SCIENCES

3. •What I Need to Know
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The social sciences refers to
the various disciplines that
study society and examine
how people interact and
develop culture.

4. What I Need to Know
It is a big umbrella of disciplines that include:
HISTORY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
SOCIOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
ECONOMICS
GEOGRAPHY
DEMOGRAPHY
ANTHROPOLOGY

5. •SELF
DEVELOPMENT
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6. An applied social scientist can use his/her
training as a self-development or personal
development counselor. As an applied social
scientist practitioner, he/she can be able to help
resolve a range of serious problems in people’s
lives. They engage in counseling or professional
guidance of the individual through the use of
psychological methods like collection of case
history data, personal interview and interests and
aptitude tests.

7. •DIFFERENT TYPES OF
SELF DEVELOPMENT
•OR PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
COUNSELING THAT AN
APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENTIST CAN PURSUE
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8. LIFE COACHES FOR
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Life coaching is a profession that
addresses specific personal projects,
business successes, general
conditions and transitions in a
personal life, relationships or
profession.

9. •CAREER COUNSELING
FOR PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
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It is needed by people who are entering
the job market, looking for career
changes and those who want to
advance within their present careers.

10. Hypnotherapy is a form of
complementary therapy that uses the
power of positive
suggestions to bring about subconscious
change to one’s thoughts, feelings and
behavior.

11. •PERSONAL GROWTH
COUNSELING FOR PERSONAL
•DEVELOPMENT
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A personal growth counselor focuses on the
evaluation of a client’s life, goals, and the
different aspects of our lives. This type of
counseling incorporates the techniques and
approaches of life and career counseling into the
more exploratory work done in traditional
personal counseling.

12. PERSUASION

13. In careers related to communication like
mass media, advertising, and business,
persuasion is very essential. To persuade
means able to convince other people to
change their attitudes or behavior
regarding an issue through the
communication of messages in an

14. ART AND
ENTERTAINME
NT

15. ARTS AND
ENTERTAINMENT
Arts and entertainment are
reflections of a country’s culture and
society. To be able to understand
and analyze the development and
new trends in the arts and
entertainment, it is important to be
knowledgeable about the people’s

16. NEWS AND
INFORMATIO
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17. NEWS AND INFORMATION
Applied social sciences is also important in the
field of journalism. The news and current affairs
sector emphasize the need for a balanced,
objective and truth rendering of the political and
other events as they actually happened.
In business organizations and public relations
organizations.

18. ORGANIZING,
ADVOCACY
AND
MOBILIZATION

19. ORGANIZING, ADVOCACY AND
MOBILIZATION
Advocacy groups are organized to inform and
educate on public issues, and influence people
on the development of policies. Applied social
sciences is a good background for advocacy
organizing and mobilization because this
multidisciplinary field studies politics,
governance, social and political dynamics.

20. EDUCATION
AND
SOCIALIZATI
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21. EDUCATION AND
SOCIALIZATION
The applied social sciences educates
the public about the realities of life and
the problems that the country faces.
Through mass media, the applied social
sciences educates people about the
different events and phenomena that is

22. Social work is another professional
function of an applied social
scientist. Having been trained to
interact and understand social
realities, applied social sciences
provide good theoretical and
conceptual foundations for social