intro to social sciences presentation ppt.
- 1. DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- 2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: ( EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES) 1. DEFINE SCIENCES AS THE STUDY OF SOCIETY. 2. DISTINGUISH SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 3. COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE VARIOUS SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES AND THEIR FIELDS, MAIN AREAS OF INQUIRY, AND METHODS. 4. TRACE THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS THAT LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EACH DISCIPLINE. 5. DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES 6. CONNECT THE DISCIPLINES WITH THEIR HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS.
- 3. LESSON 1- DEFINING SOCIAL SCIENCES AS THE STUDY OF SOCIETY SOCIAL SCIENCE: THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HUMAN SOCIETY AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS. A MAJOR CATEGORY OF ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES, CONCERNED WITH SOCIETY AND THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITHIN A SOCIETY. IN A BROADER SENSE, SOCIAL SCIENCES ARE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES THAT DEAL WITH HUMAN SOCIETY, SOCIAL GROUPS, INDIVIDUALS IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS OR INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIETIES AND MATERIAL GOODS AS EXPRESSION OF HUMAN COHABITATION. • SOCIAL SCIENCES ARE MOST CONCERNED WITH THOSE BASIC ELEMENTS OF CULTURE THAT DETERMINE THE GENERAL PATTERNS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
- 4. HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES BEGINS IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT AFTER 1650. 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. 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. 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
- 5. SOCIAL SCIENCES: NATURAL SCIENCES: HUMANITIES NATURAL SCIENCES: • IS A MAJOR BRANCH OF SCIENCE THAT DEALS WITH THE DESCRIPTION, PREDICTION, AND UNDERSTANDING OF NATURAL PHENOMENA. • A BRANCH OF SCIENCE THAT SEEKS TO ELUCIDATE THE RULES THAT GOVERN THE NATURAL WORLD BY USING THE EMPIRICAL AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD. (PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, EARTH SCIENCE) • COMPRISES MANY DISCIPLINES THAT DEAL WITH THE STUDY OF PROCESSES THAT OCCUR IN NATURE.
- 6. SOCIAL SCIENCE VS. NATURAL SCIENCE Social science Natural science
- 7. ANTHROPOLOGY • IS THE STUDY OF ALL HUMAN ASPECTS OF HUMAN LIFE AND CULTURE. IT EXAMINES SUCH TOPICS AS HOW PEOPLE LIVE, WHAT THEY THINK, WHAT THEY PRODUCE, AND HOW THEY INTERACT WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENT. ANTHROPOLOGISTS GENERALLY SPECIALIZE IN ONE OF FOUR FIELDS: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.
- 8. A. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY HUMAN CULTURES) B. PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (THE STUDY OF HUMAN GENETICS, EVOLUTION, AND PRIMATOLOGY) C. ARCHAEOLOGY (THE STUDY OF PAST CULTURES) D. LINGUISTICS (THE STUDY OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION)
- 9. ECONOMICS • IS A SCIENCE WHICH STUDY THE HUMAN BEHAVIOR AS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENDS AND SCARES, WHICH MEANS HAVE ALTERNATIVE USES. TWO BRANCHES OF ECONOMICS: 1. MICRO ECONOMICS 2. MACRO ECONOMICS
- 10. GEOGRAPHY • IS THE SCIENCE THAT DEALS WITH THE DISTRIBUTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF ALL ELEMENTS OF THE EARTHS SURFACE. GEOGRAPHY MAY BE DIVIDED INTO TWO FUNDAMENTAL BRANCHES: 1. SYSTEMATIC GEOGRAPHY- CONCERNED WITH INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH. 2. REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY- CONCERNED WITH VARIOUS AREAS OF THE EARTH, PARTICULARLY THE UNIQUE COMBINATIONS OF PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL FEATURES
- 11. HISTORY • HE STUDY OF PAST EVENT. IT IS A SOCIAL SCIENCE IN THE SENSE THAT IT IS A SYSTEMATIC ATTEMPT TO LEARN ABOUT AND VERIFY PAST EVENTS AND TO RELATE THEM TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE PRESENT. THE SUBJECT MATTER OF HISTORY IS EVERYTHING THAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. THE STUDY OF HISTORY INVOLVES IDENTIFYING, ARRANGING, AND PATTERNING.
- 12. POLITICAL SCIENCE • IS THE STUDY OF GOVERNMENT, ITS STRUCTURE AND THE ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH IT. IT IS A BODY OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE STATE IN ITS VARIOUS MANIFESTATIONS; POLITICS REFERS TO THE ACTUAL OPERATIONS OF A POLITICAL SYSTEM
- 13. PSYCHOLOGY • IS THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF BEHAVIOR AND THE MIND. IT IS SOCIAL SCIENCE BECAUSE HUMANS ARE SOCIAL CREATURES. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF THE INDIVIDUAL’S BEHAVIOR AS IT INFLUENCES AND IS INFLUENCED BY THE BEHAVIOR OF OTHERS.
- 14. SOCIOLOGY • THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD ‘SOCIOLOGY ‘ IS FROM THE LATIN WORD ‘SOCIUS’ AND THE GREEK ‘OLOGY’, INDICATE ITS NATURE AS A HYBRID DISCIPLINE THAT CAN NEVER ASPIRE TO THE STATUS OF A SOCIAL SCIENCE OR A CURRENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE. IT IS THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP AMONG PEOPLE.
- 15. DEMOGRAPHY •IS THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF HUMAN POPULATIONS. IT DEALS WITH THE SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POPULATION AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TIME.
- 16. LINGUISTICS • IS THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND ITS STRUCTURE. • IT INVOLVES THE DESCRIPTION OF LANGUAGES, THE INVESTIGATION OF THEIR ORIGIN, THE INQUIRY OF HOW CHILDREN ACQUIRE LANGUAGE, AND HOW INDIVIDUALS LEARN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN THEIR OWN. • LINGUISTICS ALSO DEALS WITH THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OR AMONG LANGUAGES AND WITH THE MANNER LANGUAGES CHANGE OVER TIME.
- 17. ACTIVITY 1 CONTEXTUALIZING SOCIAL SCIENCES DISCIPLINES • DIRECTION: IDENTIFY THE APPROPRIATE DISCIPLINE APPLICABLE IN THE GIVEN SITUATION. EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER.
- 18. SITUATION APPROPRIATE SOCIAL SCIENCES DISCIPLINE: 1. EVALUATION OF THE CAREER PATH WITH RESPECT TO THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEES IN YOUR COMPANY. 2. AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS AMONG HOUSEWIVES IN A MIDDLE-INCOME COMMUNITY. 3. A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT CULTURAL PRACTICES OF THE IGOROTS. 4. AN ANALYSIS OF THE VOTING BEHAVIOR AMONG YOUNG ADULTS. 5. AN ANALYSIS ON THE CAUSES OF FRATERNITY WARS AND GANG VIOLENCE. 6. A POLICY RECOMMENDATION ON HOW TO RAISE THE INCIDENCE OF BIRTH IN COUNTRIES THAT HAVE AN AGING POPULATION. 7. A STUDY ON WHAT CAUSES SEVERE DEPRESSION WHICH LEADS TO SUICIDE. 8. AN INJURY ON HOW COLONIAL OCCUPATION HAS CHANGED THE VALUES OF THE NATIVE POPULATION. 9. AN INVESTIGATION OF AREAS OR LOCATIONS WHERE THE INCIDENCE OF EARTHQUAKES ARE MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR. 10. AN INQUIRY ON THE CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AMONG ADOLESCENTS.