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1. DISCIPLINES
AND IDEAS
IN THE
SOCIAL
Teacher : Anna Marie Masayon

2. Social Science
It is concerned about society.
It aims at understanding all
aspects of society as well as
finding solutions to deal with
social problems It is a broad
area of knowledge and
includes several different
disciplines under its domain.

3. the term “Social Sciences” is
defined as the body of
knowledge concerned with
the methodical study of
various aspects of society,
numerous social phenomena,
and the impacts of these
occurrences on people’s lives.

4. Also, it is considered as the
branch of science that focuses on
the interpersonal relationships
among people living in a society.
Over the past centuries, Social
Sciences focused on the
contributing factors or elements
that molded and governed the
development of the human
civilization.

5. ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Society, the first element puts the entire
body of knowledge in individuals as
social beings and their social
backgrounds or environments. It situates
Social Sciences in people and social issues
that are affecting them. On the other
hand, empirical analysis places the
Social Sciences in an academic mode of
investigation about human society using
the scientific method, the systematic and
rational process of obtaining knowledge.

6. HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
The roots of some of the important
concepts and purposes of Social Sciences
go completely back to the ancient Greece.
The Renaissance and the Enlightenment,
two historical periods where some of the
major evolutionary ideas emerged.
Before and during the Age of
Enlightenment, the approaches used by
several social philosophers in examining
human societies were much
more philosophical than scientific.

7. Positivism is a philosophy that
believes that every single
reasonable affirmation can be
scientifically proven or tested by
empirical sciences or is capable
of mathematical or logical
evidence.
Auguste Comte (17981857), the
founder of Positivism

8.  NATURAL SCIENCE – The study of
natural phenomena
 FORMAL SCIENCE - The study of
mathematics and logic
 SOCIAL SCIENCE – The study of human
behavior and societies
 APPLIED SCIENCE –To apply existing
scientific knowledge to develop more
practical application like health care,
technology or inventions.
THE BRANCHES OF SCIENCE

9. Disciplines
within the
Social Sciences

10. History
The term history comes from the
Greek word historia ( an account of
one’s inquiries) and shares that
etymology with the English word
”story” . History can be seen as the
sum total of many things taken
together and the spectrum of
events occurring in action following
in order leading from the past to
the present and into the future.

11. Archaeology
– A holistic discipline concerned
with human, both past and
present. Being holistic,
anthropologists always keep in
mind the biological, linguistic,
historic, and cultural aspects of
any problem.

12. The science that studies the land, the
features, the inhabitant and the
phenomena of the Earth. It is
generally split into two distinct
branches: Physical and Human.

13. TWO DISTINCT BRANCHES of geography
Physical- geography examines
phenomena related to the natural
environment: climate, oceans, soils, and
the measurement of the earth.
Human – geography focuses largely on the
built environment and how space is created,
viewed and managed by humans as well as the
influence humans have on the space they
occupy through field as diverse as cultural,
geography, transportation, health, military
operation and cities.

14. Political Science – The theory
and practice of politics and the
description and analysis system
and political behavior. It is the
study of allocation and transfer
of power in decision-making ,
the roles and system of
governance including
government and international
organization, political behavior

15. Sociology – Involves groups
of people, rather that
individuals, and attempts to
understand the way people
relate to each other and
function as a society. It
emphasizes society and its
origins and developments
(social classes, institutions
and

17. Demography
The study of population and
population changes and trends,
using resources such as statistics of
birth, deaths and disease. It is also
interested in the changes over time
size, composition and distribution
of human population and how these
results from the process of fertility,
mortality and migration.

18. A holistic discipline concerned
with human, both past and
present. Being holistic,
anthropologists always keep in
mind the biological, linguistic,
historic, and cultural aspects
of any problem.

19. Linguistics
5Linguistic – study of Language.
It deals with the study of
particular languages and the
search on what general
languages have in common.

20. Social Sciences
Natural Sciences
Humanities

21. NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
What makes Social Sciences
unique from other areas of study such
as Natural Sciences and Humanities
is that these disciplines concentrate
on analyzing and explaining the
different aspects of social life of the
individuals including their behaviors.
Also, these fields focus on observing
and interpreting various social
phenomena. On the other hand,

22. Natural Sciences, or the
sciences of nature, give
attention on investigating
every single natural
phenomenon that occurred, or
is currently happening, in our
world using tangible evidences
like natural forces, fossils, and
artifacts.

23. These areas of study explore
the laws of nature that rule
our world through objective
and empirical approaches.
Natural Sciences can be
categorized into Physical
Sciences, Biological Sciences,
Earth Sciences and many
more.

24. Humanities are academic disciplines that
study numerous human conditions and the
manners wherein the human experiences
are treated and recorded. Additionally, these
studies aim to comprehend the human
perspective of individuals’ social existence
and the responses these people are
displaying on different occurrences. For
instance, the literary works of Jose Rizal,
such as Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo, aim to educate the Filipinos
on the persecutions experienced by our
countrymen during the Spanish regime.

25. Social Sciences, Natural Sciences,
and Humanities are all employing
the scientific method in producing
knowledge, though this systematic
process is more usual in Social
Sciences and Natural Sciences
since Humanities are more
focused on the creative
expressions of human
experiences.