 Discipline and Ideas in the Social Sciences Lecture Notes

 The Emergence of Social Sciences Objectives:  Define social science as the study of society  Apply the concept scientific method when

studying various human phenomena  Distinguish the difference between the social sciences, the natural science and the humanities

 Aristotle  Who wrote that “man is a rational animal”  We are all born and raised in a society  Man is a social being (Gadamer) We

interact with one another and build relationship in the hope of pursuing better life  We may share a distinct culture, same political

dynamics, or similar institutions  As a rational animal, hence, we use our reason in order to satisfy our curiosity and discover the “how

and why” of so many things around us

 The Human Knowledge  In our contemporary times, the human knowledge has so many point of view to use in order to see things

  There exist several classification of the human knowledge that has broad categories such as social science, natural science and

humanities

 Natural Science In this source of knowledge this includes biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics Natural science actually explain and

attempt to predict various phenomena in nature such cellular composition, atomic particles, weather conditions and earthquake patterns

 Philosophy It is easier to do rather than to define (Fr. Roque Ferriols)  It is an Active realization of truth (Indian Philosophy) This

includes Metaphysics, Epistemology, Theodicy, Phenomenology  In every branches, it studies everything through everything at the

same time  Metaphysics: Being  Epistemology: Knowledge Theodicy: God  Phenomenology: Experience and meaning

 Humanities It is a branch of knowledge that tends to humanize human as they express themselves in various forms