grade 11 humss defing social sciences

1. DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS
IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
Prepared by: Sir Randy G. Narvaez, LPT
“Defining Social Sciences as the Study of Society”

2. ✘ The social sciences have a
critical contribution to
make, in helping us
understand, imagine, and
craft a more sustainable
future for all.”
- UNESCO

3. What comes into your mind
when you hear the word
“society”?

4. Technically,
society is usually described as an organized group of individuals
whose members
work together or regularly meet and have a shared territory, interest,
and way of
living. Likewise, it signifies companionship or association with others.

5. Who I am
How I behave
with others.

6. Practical Ways of Categorizing
Human Knowledge
Humanities
Natural
Science
Social
Science

7. What is
SOCIAL SCIENCE?

8. Social Sciences: The Study
of Society

9. ✘Defined as the body of knowledge concerned with the
methodical study of various aspects of our society,
numerous social phenomena, and the impacts of these
occurrences on people’s lives.

10. ✘ Any discipline or branch of science that deals with human
behavior in its social and cultural aspects.
✘ Social science is an academic discipline concerned with
society and the relationships among individuals within a
society, which often rely primarily on empirical approaches.

11. ✘ Social Sciences are those disciplines that study
(a) Institutions and functioning of human society and the
interpersonal relationships of individuals as members of
society;
(b) A particular phase or aspect of human society.

12. How is social science
related to society?

13. ✘ Social sciences focus on the study of society and the
relationship among individuals within society.

14. What is social sciences and how can it be used to
study and understand society?
What are the roles of social science in the society?

15. ✘ Conceptualization of the social problem - means what is the
problem affecting the society, positive or negative?
✘ Understanding the existing concepts related to the problem.
✘ Conducting the research on the problem, using scientific
methods such as inclusive sampling, classification, tabulation
and analysis then conclusion.
✘ Based on analysis and conclusion suggesting
recommendations to the problem.
✘ It is used to understand society, identify potential social
problems create an hypothesis and try and formulate
answers to those problems.
For example, our aging population.

16. ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL
SCIENCES
There are two words comprising the term “Social
Sciences.”

17. These words represent the two substantial
elements of Social Sciences, which are
the society (social) and the empirical analysis
(science)

18. Society
• The first element of Social Sciences, 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.

19. Society
✘ Society refers to ‘a system of interrelationships which
connects individuals together’ (Giddens1990)
✘ A ‘common habitat’ or environment within which members
of a society depend on one another for survival and well-
being (Marvin Harris 1983)
✘ Society refers to a group of people who share a culture and a
territory.
✘ Socialization affects the overall cultural practices of a society
and shape one’s self-image.

20. 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.

21. 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 social sciences developed from the sciences
(experimental and applied), or the systematic knowledge-
bases or prescriptive practices, relating to the social
improvement of a group of interacting entities.

22. ✘The study of society started in the Enlightenment (17th-18th
century) to become somewhat scientific.
✘The Renaissance and the Enlightenment, two historical periods
where some of the major evolutionary ideas emerged, would not
have served their own respective purposes in the course of our
civilization,

23. HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
✘ Social science was influenced by positivism. Auguste Comte used
the term "science sociale" to describe the field, taken from the
ideas of Charles Fourier; Comte also referred to the field as social
physics.

24. 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.

25. Auguste Comte (1798-1857), the founder of Positivism and
the one who foreshadowed the use of this philosophy in
studying human behaviors, argued that metaphysics and
theology are imperfect methods in searching for knowledge;
that rational thought is far more
powerful in comparison to faith and superstition in
explaining different social phenomena.

26. He proposed that theism and metaphysics should be rejected
since these modes of knowledge cannot be proven by empirical
analysis and, therefore, are unreliable.

27. HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
✘ The term "social science" may refer either to the specific sciences
of society established by thinkers such as Comte, Durkheim, Marx,
and Weber, or more generally to all disciplines outside of "noble
science" and arts.

28. Economics
History
Political Science
Sociology
Anthropology
Geography
Linguistics
Psychology
Demography
SOCIAL SCIENCE

30. NATURAL SCIENCES AND
HUMANITIES

31. What is
NATURAL SCIENCE?

32. ✘ A major branch of science that deals with the description,
prediction and understanding of natural phenomena,
basically based on observational and empirical evidence.

33. 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.

34. Two Main Branches of Natural Science:
1. Life Science or Biological Science
2. Physical Science
• Physics
• Astronomy
• Chemistry
• Earth Science

35. Natural Science vs. Social Science
✘ Started during the
16th and 17th century.
✘ Deals with object.
✘ Characterized by
exactness, controlled
variables, and
predictability.
✘ Experimental Data
✘ The typical method of
science is doing repetitive
and conventional
laboratory experiments.
✘ Closed System
✘ Both sciences employ
the scientific model in order
to gain information.
✘ Both sciences use
empirical and measured
data evidence that can be
seen and discerned by the
senses.
✘ Both sciences’ theories
can be tested to yield
theoretical statements and
general positions.
✘ Arose 300 years later.
✘ Deals with subject.
(Human being)
✘ It is spontaneous,
unpredictable and
uncontrollable, as it deals
with human emotions and
behavior.
✘ Experiential Data
✘ Typically involves
alternative methods of
observation and
interaction with people
within community.
✘ Open System

36. How natural
science can be used in our
daily lives?

37. What is HUMANITIES?

38. ✘ Refers to the study of the ways in which the human
experience is processed and documented.
✘ Encompasses the field of philosophy, literature, religion, art,
music, history, and language.

39. Academic disciplines that study numerous
human conditions and the manners wherein the human
experiences are treated and recorded.

40. Humanities vs. Social Science
✘ Emerged in the 15th
century.
✘ Humanities involved a
more of a scientific
approach.
✘ Deemed to be more
philosophical and
concerned with
heritage and the
question of what
makes us human.
Comprise application
of an interpretative
methodology.
✘ Both the humanities
and social science
are concerned with
human aspects like,
law, politics,
linguistics,
economics, and
psychology.
✘ Both the humanities
and social sciences
are concerned with
human lives and
nature.
✘ Influence by and
developed after the
French revolution and
the industrial
revolution.
✘ Social science deal
with more scientific
approach.
✘ Involves application of
an empirical, rational,
and objective
methodology (such as
the use of validity and
reliability test) to
present facts.

41. Functions:
SOCIAL SCIENCE
To analyze, explain, and possibly predict
and produce new knowledge of factual
information.
HUMANITIES
To better appreciate the meaning and
purpose of the human experience –
both broadly in the nature of the
human condition, as well as within each
individual
To reveal wisdom, to better explore and
address the big questions and meet the
challenges in human condition.
To generate and produce new
knowledge or factual information.

42. How can humanities be applied to
our daily living?

43. 1. What are the different cultures and
traditions in the Philippines?
2. Are cultures and traditions related to
people? If yes, how?

44. Slogan Making Period (SMP)

45. Directions:
1. Generate your own slogan about the significance of Social
Sciences as instruments in understanding our society.
2. Write your slogan on a bond paper.
3. Create your output creatively and imaginatively.

46. Rubrics
Criteria Highest Possible Points
Relevance (relation to the topic) 20 points
Originality (uniqueness) 20 points
Creativity (artistry) 10 points
Overall Slogan Impact (appeal) 10 points
Total 60 points

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