The document discusses social science and its importance in education. It describes how social science promotes civic competence by teaching students about citizenship, voting, and their rights and responsibilities. It also helps develop critical thinking as students learn history and different perspectives. Additionally, social science enhances social understanding by studying human relationships and diversity. It involves integrating ideas from different disciplines like history, geography, and economics to analyze complex social issues. The primary social sciences are described as anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, and psychology.

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5. Civic Competence
• as the integrated study of the social
sciences and humanities to promote
civic competence. Social science
educates students on citizenship,
providing them with the knowledge,
skills and attitudes that will help
them to become competent and
responsible citizens who are
informed, thoughtful, participate in
their community and exhibit moral
and civic virtues. For example,
students learn about voting as a
form of political participation, and
how they can exercise their right to
vote in elections to choose the
leaders that they want.

6. Critical Thinking
• teaches students about history and enables them to
understand how society has evolved. It places a strong
emphasis on important and enduring ideas, events and
personalities that affect peoples’ lives. From these
lessons, students are able to learn about their place in
the living history of the Philippines and to establish a
foundation for their future ideas. The subject not only
offers students a strong knowledge content base, but it
also helps them develop an ability to think critically
about societal issues and learn how to address them
based on their understanding of social values.

7. Social Understanding
• The subject also includes the study
of the interrelationship among
people, as well as the relationship
between them and their
environment. This allows students to
develop an understanding of society
and the human condition. Social
science education creates awareness
in students of the diversity and
interdependence of the world and
helps them to recognize the
challenges and benefits of living in a
world with multiple cultures and
ideologies. For example, learning
about the cultural society of
Filipinos helps students understand
democracy, rights and freedoms and
the need to balance the various
values, cultures and ideologies to
have a balanced and peaceful co-
existence.

8. Integrating Ideas
• Social science involves a number of subjects
including history, geography and economics.
Students learn how to integrate ideas from
different disciplines to come up with reasoned
decisions, and to make the connections between
related concepts and ideas so that they are
better able to identify problems affecting
society. For example, investigating poverty in
society requires knowledge in history,
economics and politics. Students have to make
the connection between ideas such as
discrimination, resource allocation and political
priorities to make sense of how poverty affects
certain populations in the country.

9. Integrating Ideas

14. • Social Science
It is a major category of academic disciplines,
concerned with society and the relationship
among individuals within a society.

15. Social Science
Social Science
• relating to human society
and how it is organized.
• the study of the physical
and natural world and
phenomena, especially by
using systematic
observation and
experiment.

16. 5 primary Social Sciences:
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Geography
• Psychology

17. Anthropology
• The study of humankind in all is aspects:
culture and development.

18. Sociology
• The study of the origin, development, and
structure of human societies and the behavior
of individual people and groups in society.

19. Political Science
• the study of political organizations and
institutions, especially governments.

20. Geography
• The study of all the physical features of the
Earth's surface, including its climate and the
distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

21. Psychology
• The scientific study of the human mind and
mental states, and of human and animal
behavior.