The document discusses the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. It defines social science as fields that study human group life and society, and lists its main disciplines as anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, sociology, and psychology. Natural science is defined as using empirical methods to study natural laws. The humanities use analytical and critical methods to examine the human condition and include fields like history, literature, and philosophy. The document also compares social sciences to natural sciences and humanities, noting similarities and differences in their approaches and subjects of study.

1. DISCIPLINES AND
IDEAS IN SOCIAL
SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE

4. 1 Introduction
The social sciences are the fields of
scholarship that study society. "Social
science" is commonly used as an umbrella
term to refer to a plurality of fields outside
of the natural sciences.

5. 2. Meaning of Social Science, Natural Science and
Humanities
1. Social Science :
The field of human knowledge that deals
with all aspects of the group life of human
beings. So it is subject to change with the
changes the human behavior.

6. The following are the social
science disciplines:
Anthropology,
Economics,
Geography,
History,
Political Science,
Sociology,
Psychology

7. 2. Meaning of Social Science, Natural Science and Humanities
2. Natural Science:
a branch of science that seeks to elucidate the
rules that govern the natural world by using the
Empirical and Scientific method.
2. Meaning of Social Science, Natural Science and
Humanities

9. 3. Humanities
are academic disciplines that study the
human condition, using methods that are
primarily analytical, critical, or
speculative.
2. Meaning of Social Science, Natural Science and
Humanities

10. Fields of Humanities
• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• History
• Law and politics
• Literature
• Philosophy
• Religion
• Performing arts
• Visual arts

11. Social Sciences and Natural Sciences
Things in Common
1. both sciences employ the scientific model
in order to gain information.
2. both sciences use empirical and measured
data evidence that can be seen and
discerned by the senses.
3. both sciences’ theories can be tested to
yield theoretical statements and general
positions.

12. Differences of Social Sciences and Natural
Sciences

13. Social Science and Humanities
Things in Common
Both the humanities and social science
are concerned with human aspects like,
law, politics, linguistics, economics, and
psychology as well as human
lives and nature

14. Differences of Social Sciences and Humanities

15. 3. History of Social Science
•The history of the social sciences begins in the roots of
ancient philosophy.
•In Ancient history, there was no difference between
mathematics and the study of history, poetry or politics.
•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.