5. Which among the
disciplines of applied
social sciences would
you personally want to
develop as your career
path and be a
professional in?
Why it is your choice?
What opportunities do
you think awaits you in
that discipline?
ENGAGE
6. FUNCTIONS OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Purveyors of social justice, inclusion, and
caregiving
• Applied social sciences services are
indispensable to the full transformation of
a child
• They help society see beyond the behavior
manifestations by looking beneath them,
and address and uproot the causes
7. FUNCTIONS OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Applied social sciences help us
consider all helping situations to be
multicultural in the sense that
people’s uniqueness has to be
recognized in the helping process.
8. SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Counseling – offers guidance in varying
situations of conflict and provides tools to
address issues of self-development
• Social work – aid of emancipating the
marginalized individuals and facilitating
participation necessary for self-
development
9. SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Communication – empowers the
individual with listening and speaking
skills in order for them to be effective.
10. PERSUASION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• At the heart of persuasion, is the ability to
understand well one’s audience and their
complexity.
• Persuasion often consists of very few words
making sure each one is very important, simple,
specific, and exciting.
• Persuasion energizes itself to move audiences to
desired and immediate action
13. ART AND ENTERTAINMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Art is a human activity that involves the
perceptions and imagination of an artist
trying to communicate a selective re-
creation of reality and giving it form into
immediate perceptual awareness.
14. ART AND ENTERTAINMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Through art and entertainment, we are able
to see life differently, without imposing our
values and perceptions on it.
• Art and entertainment can provide
nurturance and keep communities
mentally and socially healthy.
15. ART AND ENTERTAINMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Noontime variety shows
• Movies, dramas, and theaters
• The industry requires creativity,
adaptability and offers the
opportunity to travel
16. NEWS AND INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• The proliferation of news outlets,
channels, and purposes requires
increased abilities for audience and
participants in news making and
consumption.
17. NEWS AND INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• The society is informed by simply reading,
listening, or watching just about anything,
through a formed intermediary that tells
them what is good, important, or meaningful,
and by accessing a wide range of the means
for them to sort things out for themselves
and find their own version of truth
18. NEWS AND INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Use of Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo, etc.
• Development of mobile phones that
instantly link every mobile owner to the
internet
• A social network “hashtag” can alert us on
important issues
19. NEWS AND INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Many major news organizations have now
opened their sites and allow users to “share”,
“like”, or “recommend” content on social media
channels
• The media landscape is more vibrant in offering
faster and cheaper distribution networks,
fewer barriers to entry, and more ways to
consume information
20. NEWS AND INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Applied social sciences in this context
can provide encouragement and
empowerment to underserved
communities to avail open and free
media channels to voice out and
consume critical information
21. ORGANIZING ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• In our present day of free speech and
democracy, organizing advocacy is very
much part of social cohesion
• Core values of applied social sciences
foster the common good, inclusion and
a greater sense of life in the
community.
22. EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Education is an ongoing process of
improving knowledge and skills and it is
an exceptional means of bringing about
personal development and building
relationships among individuals, groups,
and nations.
23. EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Following the principles and ideas upon which
UNESCO was founded, education brings hope
for a world that is a better place to live in
where people respect the rights of men and
women, and show mutual understanding and
advances in knowledge to foster human
development rather than to create barriers
between people.
24. EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• In 1972 report, UNESCO essentially gave
birth to the four pillars of education that
continue to inform and shape global
education curricular
• Learning to know, learning to do, learning to
live together, and learning to be
25. FOUR PILLARS OF EDUCATION
LEARNING TO KNOW
LEARNING TO KNOW LEARNING TO DO
• Rote learning
• Mastery of instruments of knowledge
and acquiring knowledge
• Development of the faculties of
memory, imagination, reasoning,
problem solving and the ability to think
in a coherent and critical way
• Enables the learner to experience the
pleasure of knowing, discovering, and
understanding a process
• Application of what learners have
learned or known to practice
• Using one’s education, knowledge,
skills and attitudes as the case in
technical-vocation education and
work skills training
• transforming knowledge into
innovations
26. FOUR PILLARS OF EDUCATION
LEARNING TO LIVE
TOGETHER
LEARNING TO BE
• Discovery of others and
experience of shared
purposes
• Understanding self and
others
• Working toward common
objectives
• Complete fulfillment of
humankind
• Enhancing qualities of
imagination and creativity
• Lead humankind to become
more human
27. SOCIALIZATION AND ENCULTURATION AND APPLIED
SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Socialization is a process by which
society turns an individual from being
a child into a full-pledged responsible
adult or being an outsider to
becoming an insider.
28. SOCIALIZATION AND ENCULTURATION AND APPLIED
SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Enculturation – process by which one
acquires a culture of his or her
environment
• Acculturation – process of
acquisition of a second culture
