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1. • PRAYER

2. • INTRODUCTION

3. NATURE & FUNCTIONS OF
SOCIAL SCIENCES
MOISES A. ARROYO, JR.
Teacher Applicant

4. Objectives
a. Describe the nature and functions of Social
Science.
b. Compare the nature and functions of Social
Science with those other fields of Science.

5. REVIEW ACTIVITY
• Are you familiar with different religions in our society?
• What’s your religion and how does it affects your life?

6. • MECHANICS
*Roll the Dice
1.When the dice stop at a certain student you have to
A. Define the nature of social sciences.
B. You have to describe the example of SOCIAL SCIENCES.
C. Provide synonym of the SOCIAL SCIENCES.
D. Provide the antonym of the SOCIAL SCIENCES.
E. Draw a picture of the SOCIAL SCIENCES.
F. Act out the SOCIAL SCIENCES.

7. HISTORY
• Which means “STORY OF MAN”, is a social science in
the sense that it systematic attempt to learn about and
verify past events and relate them to one another and
to the present.
• -STUDY OF MAN

8. Geography
• It also deals with the study of natural
environment and how it influences social and
cultural development.
• - or it is focuses on the distribution of the
features of the physical environment and of the
people who use those features.

9. Anthropology
• – Is a social science that deals whit the study of
humankind in all aspects.
- It is the study of HUMAN.

10. • Economics
– Is the study of how individuals and societies make
decisions about ways to use scarce resources of goods
and services.
-It seeks to understand people’s activities concerning
production, distribution and consumption of goods
services.

11. • Sociology
• – Behavior is influenced by people’s social, political,
occupational and intellectual groupings.

12. • What is the Nature of Social Science?
• Social Science refers to the study of how societies
work, exploring everything from the triggers of
economic growth and the causes of unemployment to
what makes people happy. The findings result to the
production of public policies, education programs,
urban designs, marketing strategies and many other
government endeavors.

13. • What are the Functions of Social Sciences
• Social Science, which generally includes geography,
sociology, anthropology, economics and history,
consists of the disciplined and systematic study of
society and its institutions and of how and why people
behave as they do, both as individuals and in groups
within the society. It is through this branch of Science
that the community organization, social planning,
policy analysis, epidemiology, community medicine,
strategic planning and the like are conscientiously and
continually being attended to.

15. • How significant is the study of Social Sciences?
• How can understanding Social Sciences help us make
our lives better?

16. • _____ Behavior is influenced by people’s social, political,
occupational and intellectual groupings.
• _____ Is a social science that deals whit the study of
humankind in all aspects.
• _____ Is the study of how individuals and societies make
decisions about ways to use scarce resources of goods and
services.
• _____ the study of past events, particularly in human
affairs.
• _____ the nature and relative arrangement of places and
physical features.

17. • ASSIGNMENT
• READ ANY ARTICLE OF HUMANITIES.