Social Science
interaction as human subscribe to their
Archaeology – examines the remains of
ancient and historical human population.
Cultural Anthropology – promotes the study
of a society’s culture.
Linguistic Anthropology – examine the
language of a group of people and its
relation to the culture.
Physical Anthropology – looks into the
biological development of humans.
Applied Anthropology – attempts to solve
contemporary problems.
Culture is everything.
 Material – includes all the tangible
and visible parts of culture.
 Non – material – includes all the
intangible parts of culture.
Culture is learned.
 Enculturation – the process of
learning your own culture.
 Acculturation – the process of
learning other’s culture.
 Deculturation – the reason for the
culture has been lost.
Culture is shared.
Culture affects biology.
Culture is adaptive.
Culture is maladaptive.
Culture changes.
Sociology – scientific study of society,
including patterns of social relationship,
interaction and culture.
Society – defined as a product of human
culture caters to a human’s need for
belongingness in a group.
Social Interaction – within the framework of
the society.
Social Organization – refers to the
interrelationship of parts of the society.
 Group – basic unit of an organization.
 Institution – are established when
rules, statuses and groups are
perpetuated within the context of a
society.
Social Structure and Agency – foundation of
every society.
6 Subdisciplines of Sociology
1. Social Organization – involve social
structure such as: social groups,
institutions, social stratification, social
mobility and ethnic groups.
2. Social Psychology – impacts of group
life to a person’s nature and
personality.
3. Social change and disorganization –
shift in the social and cultural
interaction and interruption.
4. Human Ecology – relate to human
behavior.
5. Population or demography –
interrelationship between population,
characteristics, and dynamics.
6. Applied Sociology – uses an
interdisciplinary approach to better
address social problems.
Political Science As A Discipline created by the government, behavior
of politicians and general political
Polis – city state – pulitikus (political
environment.
activities)
5. Public Policy – this field inquires on
Scire – to know the types of governmental policies
Political Science – to know the political and the underlying motivations for
activities within the state. their enactment and implementation.
This discipline is significant for
evaluating the efficiency of enacted
Political Activities are: policies and the possible revisions that
it can accommodate.
1. Human interaction and conflict 6. Public Administration – this branch
2. Human and state relation examines the various administrative
3. Power distribution schemes implemented by government
Political Science as a Discipline officials. It analyzes the strategies
(American Political Science Association) applied by administrative units in
implementing the existing policies
- The study of governments, publics, and the feedback mechanism that they
politics, and political processes, use to gain the opinion of the public.
systems and political behavior. This field is important in providing
Subdisciplines of Political Science scientific evaluations of the efficiency
of the administrative units in fulfilling
1. Political Theory – examines the their functions and the factors that
contemporary application of political affect them in their pursuit of
concepts such as human rights, accomplishing their deliverables.
equality, peace and justice.
2. Comparative Politics –is a branch of
political science that aims to provide
context to the differences in
government and political systems.
3. International Relations – the study of
state to state relations and wider
margin of the impacts of globalization
and climate change such as terrorism,
piracy and democratization of non –
western territories fall into the
category of international relations.
4. Political Behavior – this field covers
the attitudes, knowledge and actions
of an individual in response to
political variables such as policies and