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DISCIPLINES AND
IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES
LEARNER'S ACTIVITY SHEET
Quarter 3 – Week 1:
Differentiate the nature and
functions of Social Science
disciplines with
the natural sciences and
humanities
DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES – Grade 11
Learner's Activity Sheet
Quarter 3 – Week 1: Differentiate the nature and functions of Social Science
disciplines with the natural sciences and humanities
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LEARNER’S ACTIVITY SHEET IN

DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (DISS)
GRADE 11/12
QUARTER 3, WEEK 1

Name: ___________________________ Grade and Section: _________________

School: _________________________ Teacher: __________________________

Competencies: Differentiate the nature and functions of Social Science disciplines with
the natural sciences and humanities (HUMSS_DISS11/IVa-8.1).

I. Explore

Direction: Please introduce yourselves and complete this

sentence upon introducing yourself. “Hello, my name is _________.
The object that best represent me is a ___________ because
_____________________.
Example: “Hello, my name is GERONIMO T. SAMPILO. The object
that best represent me is a POCKET WI-FI because I CAN GIVE AND
SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION THAT THE USERS
WANT TO KNOW.”

II. Learn

What is it?

SOCIAL SCIENCES - are all academic disciplines which deal with the man in their social
context. - A science which deals with human behavior in its social and cultural aspects.
Social science is, in its broadest sense, the study of society and the manner in which
people behave and influence the world around us.
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Social science tells us about the world beyond our immediate experience, and can help
explain how our own society works – from the cause of unemployment or what helps
economic growth, to show and why people vote, or what makes people happy. It provides
vital information for government and policy-makers, local authorities, non-governmental
organizations and other.
Social scientists influence our lives usually without us being aware they are doing so.
For example, a study of behavior at football matches has shown that if police avoid heavy-
handed tactics this can help maintain crowd control in potentially hostile situations. The
study’s findings on how to create a less confrontational atmosphere are being included in
police training across Europe.
Other research findings have informed policies aimed at reducing child poverty and
reforming the UK tax systems to help poorer families. Charities such as “Save the Children”
have used research to highlight prices paid by the poor for basic necessities such as fuel and
banking: Other examples of areas in which social science influences our lives include:
The role of governments in increasingly market-based society, which has been
determined by famous thinkers such as John Maynard Keynes and Karl Popper. It was an
economist who came up with the idea of the National Health Service. The payment of
thousands of pesos of state benefits for the needy has been influenced by the work of social
scientists. Social science research findings continue to provide invaluable information
whether you are a parent, a local councilor, a police officer, or business executive.

Social science, like any discipline or branch of science deals with human behavior in its
social and cultural aspects. The social science includes cultural and (or social) anthropology,
sociology, social psychology, political science, and economics. Also, frequently included are
social and economic geography and those areas of education that deal with the social
contexts of learning and the relation of the school to the social order. History is regarded by
many as a social science, and certain areas of historical study are almost indistinguishable
from work done in social sciences. Most historians, however, consider history as one of the
humanities. It is generally best, in any case, to consider history as marginal to the humanities
and social sciences, since its insights and techniques pervade both. The study of comparative
law may also be regarded as a part of the social sciences, although it is ordinary pursued in
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schools of law rather than in departments or schools containing most of the other social
sciences.
Since the 1950s, the term behavioral sciences has often been applied to the disciplines
designated as the social sciences. Those who favour this term this term do so in part because
these disciplines as thus brought closer to some of the sciences, such as physical
anthropology and physiological psychology, which also deal with human behavior. Whether
the term behavioral sciences will in time supplant “social sciences” or whether it will, as
neologisms so often have before, fade away is impossible to say. For the purposes, the two
terms may be considered synonymous.
Although, strictly speaking, the social sciences do not precede the 19th century – that
is, as distinct and recognized disciplines of thought – one must go back farther in time for the
origins of some of their fundamental ideas and objectives. In the largest sense, the origins go
all the way back to the ancient Greeks and their rationalist inquiries into the nature of
humans, state, and morality. The heritage of both Greece and Rome is a powerful one in the
history of social thought as it is in other areas of Western society. Very probably, apart from
the initial Greek determination to study all things in the spirit of dispassionate and rational
inquiry, there would be no social sciences today. True, there have been long periods of time,
as during the Western Middle Ages, when the Greek rationalist temper was lacking. But the
recovery of this temper, through texts of the great classical philosophers, is the very essence
of the Renaissance and the Age of Reason in modern European history. With the Age of
Reason, in the 17th and 18th centuries, one might begin.

The same impulses that led men in that age to explore the earth, the stellar regions,
and the nature of matter led them also to explore the institutions around them: the state,
economy, religion, morality; above all, the nature of man himself. It was the fragmentation
of medieval philosophy and theory, and, with this, the shattering of the medieval world view
that had lain deep in thought until about the 16th century, that was the immediate basis of
the rise of the several strands of specialized thought that were to become in time the social
sciences.
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III. Engage

What I Learned (1)

Direction: Fill out a concept map showing the definition of social science as a study
of society.

LET’S PROCESS…
Direction: Please answer now the following process questions:
a) What did you feel about the activity?
b) Were you convinced of your proposed answers?

What I Learned (2)

Direction: Complete the diagram.
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LET’S PROCESS…
Direction: Please answer now the following process questions:
a) What did you feel about the activity?
b) Were you convinced of your proposed answers?
IV. Apply

What I Can Do
Direction: Please share your thoughts from the following inquiry in
two to three (2-3) sentences:

How can humanities be applied to our daily living?

How natural science can be used in our daily lives?
V. Post Test

Directions: Write True if the statement is correct and False if not.

______ 1. Social science can be used to study and understand society.

______ 2. Socialization affects the overall cultural practices of a society, but
it does not shape one’s self-image.
______ 3. Most social scientists believe heredity is the most important
factor influencing human development.
______ 4. Social sciences perspective can be used to address issue or
problem.
______ 5. Society refers to a group of people who share a culture and a
territory.
______ 6. Social science can be used to study and understand society.
______ 7. Socialization affects the overall cultural practices of a society, but
it does not shape one’s self-image.
______ 8. Most social scientists believe heredity is the most important
factor influencing human development.
______ 9. Social sciences perspective can be used to address issue or
problem.
______ 10. Society refers to a group of people who share a culture and a
territory.