PACIFIC SOUTHBAY COLLEGE, INC

Purok Carmenville, Calumpang, General Santos City

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL – HUMSS 11 - EDISON
Week 3

Descriptive Title : Discipline and Ideas in the Social Science

Course Credit : 4 units
Class Schedule : Tuesday and Thursday
Room : HUMSS11 – Edison
Instructor : ARON ADARSON J. BAGO, LPT
Contact Details : arkaye1220@gmail.com

Competency/ies:
 Express fraction to decimal and percent forms
 Express decimals to fractions and percent forms
 Express percent to fractions and decimal forms
 Solve problems involving fractions, decimals, and percent

I. Objective:
1. explain the m a j o r e v e n t s t h a t l e d t o t h e e m e r g e n c e o f t h e
social science
disciplines;
2. enumerate the contributions of social science disciplines; and
3. demonstrate the historical foundation of social science disciplines.

II. Subject Matter:

Materials:
PowerPoint presentation, chalk and eraser

III. Procedure:
A. Preliminary Activities
1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance
4. Review

B. Motivation

Directions: List down the nine disciplines of social sciences

on the first column then briefly describes the functions on the
next column. Use a separate bond paper.
DISCIPLINES OF
DESCRIPTION
SOCIAL SCIENCES
C. Analysis
 The teacher will help his/her student to understand the lesson about
the different history of the branches of social science.
D. Abstract

Discipline Historical Foundation

 Traces its roots from natural history which is the
Anthropology study of plants, animals and humans with reference
to their history and native environment.
 The discovery and contact to new civilizations by
European explorers and colonizers led to curiosity
and questions of who these people are, who their
ancestors were, how they are related to other people
in other places, what makes them distinct, what
similarities they share with the rest, how they
conduct their way of life, and what culture they have
in terms of knowledge they possess, their beliefs,
technology that have, etc.
 It was in 19th century that the discipline began its
formative years as a social science.

 Through the Medieval and Renaissance periods,

History History was often studied through a sacred or
religious perspective.
 In the 20th century, academic historians focused less
on epic nationalistic narratives, which often tended to
glorify the nation or great men, to more objective and
complex analyses of social and intellectual forces.
 Recently, the field of digital history has begun to
address ways of using computer technology to pose
new questions to historical data and generate digital
scholarships.

 It was not considered a separate discipline until the

Economics nineteenth century
 Greeks examined wealth accumulation and inquiries
on whether property should be in the hands of
private or public institutions.
 In medieval times (Middle Ages - 5th to 15th
century), scholars argued that it was a moral
obligations of business to sell goods at a just price.
 Changes in economic thought have always
accompanied changes in the economy, just as
changes in economic thought can propel change in
economic policy.

 People engaged in the study of geography because it

Geography satisfies their natural curiosity about foreign places
and different ways of life.
 The Ancient Greeks made the first contribution to
the subject through measuring the earth using grids
of meridians.

 It was the old Babylon who first created linguistics

Linguistic texts called Sumerian.
 Hindus also created text called Vedas.
 The formal study of language began in India
  It started with the formulation of 3,959 rules of
Sanskrit morphology.
 Early interest in language in the West was a part of
Philosophy, not a grammatical description.

 It was once part of the many related fields of study

Political Science like history, philosophy, law and economics.
 The theoretical and practical study of the state and
the politics began way back to the time of the
Ancient Greeks, about 500 - 300 B.C
 The chieftain who headed a village was chosen from
the ranks of leaders with the power to make laws, judge
and execute laws.
 The chiefdom become a state

Psychology  It has its roots in Ancient Greek Philosophy such as

epistemology, metaphysics, religion and oriental
philosophy.
 Over the centuries, psychology and physiology
became increasingly separated resulting to the two
conceptions of psychology that is phenomenological
(experimental) and mechanistic (physiological).

Sociology  The intellectual, scientific and industrial revolutions

which happened in Europe in the middle of the 19th
century led to the development of Sociology.
 The intellectual revolution opened new perspective
in society which offered the people new principles,
ideals, and beliefs changing their outlook in life and
the way they perceive themselves, their environment
and relations with fellow men.
 The revolutions in Europe brought rapid and radical
changes which resulted to social problems, issues
and social unrest prompting some individual to
direct their attention and investigation of social
phenomena.

IV. Evaluation:
Direction: Find the following words in the word hunt below and
prepare two to three-word association synonym for each word. Use a
separate bond paper.

Age Dialects Indicator Social Science

Class Development Policy Water
Colony Filipino Poverty Values
Community Gender Power Women

V.Assignment
Study in advance: Concepts and Principles of the Social Science Theories