DISCIPLINES WITHIN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

1. DISCIPLINES WITHIN THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES
CHAPTER 2

2. ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary
Gina Lopez’s Bold Move
• On February 14, 2017, Gina Lopez canceled 75
mining contracts in watershed areas, continuing
ger efforts to protect the countr’s resources.

3. ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
OF MINING CONTRACT
CANCELLATION
• Closure affects 1.2 million Filipinos,
impacting local government units and
communities relying on mining firm tax
payments.
• Critics argue that Lopez's actions threaten
economic growth and jeopardize $22 billion
worth of investments.

4. ECONOMICS
• Economics allocates scarce resources for satisfying
human wants and needs.
• Critical for nation-building, economic stability, and
financial growth.
• Two branches: Macroeconomics (aggregate level)
and Microeconomics (individual level).

5. • History provides national identity, defining society, politics, and culture.
• Branches include Local, Social, and Cultural history, emphasizing place, people, time, and
events.
• Local History - focuses on a certain group of people within a particular location.
• Social History - focuses on how this group of people interact with other people within or
outside their group.
• Cultural History - focuses on the different ethnic group and how they interact with each
other.
HISTORY

6. • Anthropology explains human diversity and
cultures.
• Anthropology is also considered a science through
language archeology.
• Anthropology uses both quantitative and qualitative
approach in gathering immersing “participant
observation” in a particular culture and expeierince
day activities in the society.
ANTHROPOLOGY

7. TABLE 1: SUBFIELED OF ANTHROPOLOGY
TABLE 1: SUBFIELED OF ANTHROPOLOGY
• Concerned with the study of man as “homo” species and its evolution.
• Variation of man from places to places.
• Human biological origin.
• Studies the way of life of people in a society.
• “Common characteristics” of people within their society.
• Studies the diversity of ethnic groups and its dynamics and linguistics.
Physical
Anthropology
Cultural
Anthropology
Archeology
Sociocultural
Arthropology
Linguistic
Arthropology
• Past people amd cultures
• Deepest prehistory to the present.
• Observing and understanding social patterns across cultures
• Understand how people organize, govern and create meaning
• Comparative study of language system of different cultures.

8. • Focus on location, regions, movement, and human-
environment relationship.
• Difference between Physical and Human
Geography.
• Physical Geography - Natural process of Earth,
Climate, land forms, water forms, territories.
• Human Geography - interaction of people to their
environment and vice versa.
GEOGRAPHY

9. SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology studies human behavior, social groups,
structure, and causes/consequences of human behavior.
• Focus on Rural and Urban sociology.
• Weber defined Sociology as “a science that
attempts the interpretative understanding of social
action in order to arrive at a casual explanation of
its cause and effect”.

10. POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Political Science analyzes governments,
institutions, power, and socio-economic objectives.
• Utilizes normative and empirical theories.
• It also studies and focuses on state and
international community.
• It is considered a Social Science for its studies
man in the process of governing himself.

11. LINGUISTICS
• Linguistics studies language's nature, structure, and
variation.
• Scope includes Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology,
Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics.
• It shows the very soul of the culture of a country.
• Linguistic also looks at the similarities of language
across countries.

12. S CO PE O F LING U IST ICS
• “The study and systematic classification of the sounds made in spoken utterance”
• The practical application of this science to language study”
• Study of speech soun
• “The science of speech sounds including especially the history and theoryof sound
changes in a language or in two or more related languages”.
• “A study and description of word formation in language” structure of form of a
language.
• “The way in which linguistic elements are put together to form constituents”
• The study of meaning in a language
• Relating to matters of fact
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics

13. PSYCHOLOGY
• Psychology - Focus on Cognition,
Growth, and Behavior
• Psychology explores cognition, human
growth, and behavior, considering
biological and neurological processes.

14. • Demography - Understanding Population Composition and Trends
• Demography studies population structure, density, and trends.
• Essential for resource allocation and government planning.
DEMOGRAPHY

15. SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPLEMENT AND
SUPPLEMENT EACH OTHER
• Social Sciences mutually complement and supplement each other.
• Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are used to study society and culture.
• Sociology explores changes in communication patterns influenced by advancements in science
and technology.
• Ecology can be understood through Anthropology, linking development in science and
technology to cultural changes.
• Social Sciences educate students on their role in climate change, its economic impact, and the
need for sustainable development.

16. SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPLEMENT AND
SUPPLEMENT EACH OTHER
• Economics analyzes climate change issues, focusing on economic impacts.
• Multicultural education emphasizes race, gender, and ethnicity, promoting cultural
development for minority groups.
• Humanities, combined with social sciences, offers a unique perspective, using art
appreciation to understand historical changes.
• Archaeology complements linguistics in deciphering early human language, as seen in
artifacts like the Laguna copper plate.

17. Social Sciences include:
• Economics - study of allocation of scarce resources to
address the unlimited needs and wants of human
beings.
• History - study of important past events and its
significance in human history.
• Anthropology - study of culture and how man affects
its society.
• Geography - study of locations, regions, movement of
people and human relationship with its environment.
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18. Social Sciences include:
• Sociology - study of man and society and man in
society.
• Political Science - study of how man governs its
territory, governments, institutions.
• Linguistics - study of language to better understand the
dynamics of the man in society.
• Psychology - study of a person's cognition, human
growth and change over time.
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19. Social Sciences include:
• Demography - study population education in a
particular place. Social Sciences have to do with human
history and society.
• Disciplines of Social Sciences are interrelated with
each other as they use data, sources and information to
understand and support the scope of each field.
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20. COMPREHENSIVE
CHECK
Let’s have a

21. Name:_________________________________ Date: ____________________ Section: ___________
Answer the following questions.
• Construct a chart that summarizes the different disciplines within the social sciences and give the
distinctiveness of each discipline. Use the given example as your guide.
SOCIAL SCIENCES DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS
• History
2. Geography

22. 2. How does economics affect people’s migration and ethnic and population change in towns, province
and regions of a country?
3. What problems in the society require the approach of Social Sciences?
4. Discuss the inter relatedness of the social sciences. Focus on the concepts of interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary approach.
5. Use the issue of poverty in the Philippines. Explain how this issue could be viewed in
multidisciplinary approach of the social sciences.

23. #LetsGetCritical

24. INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES
• Your group is tasked to go to a partner community of your school. Observe the different aspect of
society using the discipline of Social Sciences. List down your observation or gathered information
about the community on the table below
Social Structure
and Geography
Economy Political
Structure
Culture (choose
a specific aspect)
Language

25. Task #2
• Make a narrative on how do these information help a
student understand the study of human aspect, social
behavior and society.
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26. DISCIPLINES WITHIN THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES
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