Political science focuses on group power and collective decision-making processes. It is a social science that studies society and how people behave and influence the world. Other social sciences also examine important social issues and phenomena that profoundly impact people's lives, such as poverty, lack of education, family problems, ineffective governments, and war, which can cause physical illness and death. Decolonization in the 20th century led to independence for over 50 countries and 800 million people in Asia and Africa, though before World War 1 it seemed they would remain under European rule for generations. Colonization displaced indigenous identities and cultures, favoring those of colonizers, with lingering effects on post-colonial societies like the Philippines where English is still favored over the

1. As a social science, political science
focuses on group power, the ‘how’ and
‘why’ of collective decision-making.
Relationship between Social
Science and Political
Science?

2.  Social comes from the Latin word:
socius ( means friend ) or socialis ( means allied )
 Social Science: the study of society and the manner in which
people behave and influence the world around us.
It tells us about the world beyond our immediate experience and
can help explain how our society works.

3.  We study social science because social
phenomena affect people’s lives in profound
ways.
 Social phenomena are tremendously important.
Example: Social ills—poverty, lack of formal
education, family dysfunction, ineffective
governments, wars—are associated with and
arguably cause a great deal of physical illness
and death.

6.  the study of society and the manner in
which people behave and influence the
world around us.

7.  Decolonization has shaped modern world history, and
continues to do so.
 The most dramatic wave of decolonization was concentrated in
the period from 1918 to the 1960s, when more than fifty
countries and more than 800 million people gained
independence from European rule.
 As late as 1914, however, it seemed likely that most
Asian and African countries would have to wait
generations for internal self-government, let alone full
independence.
 Their populations were limited to traditional forms of
resistance, localized peasant revolts against harsh rule,
high taxes, and alien customs.

17.  “One of the tragedies of a colonized society like ours is the absence of a
solidly-founded national narrative that permeates our lives. This is
aggravated by a lingering fetish at everything that is Western, leading one to
prefer the language and lifestyle of the colonizers. Colonization is indeed a
process of identity displacement, since it has effectively rendered our former
selves as our new “other,” even as our colonial “other” becomes now part of
our post-colonial selves.”
 “Filipino was just taught as a course, and as a medium for instruction
in some subject areas, but not as the medium upon which all forms of
knowledge will be engaged by the students. One just has to compare our
situation with the poor-in-English but richer countries such as Korea, Taiwan
and Japan where the medium of instruction is their national languages, to
know how tragic the colonial legacy of fetishizing English was for us.”
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