Six common branches of Social Studies

1. History- is the study and the documentation of the past.

Subdisciplines/Branches of History
1.1. Religion History- refers to the written record of human religious feelings,
thoughts, and ideas.
1.2. Military History- is the history of wars, and of armed forces in peace as well as in
war.
1.3. Intellectual history- is a label applied to a wide range of enquiries dealing with the
articulation of ideas in the past.
1.4. Universal History- is a work aiming at the presentation of a history of all of
mankind as a whole, coherent unit.
1.5. Diplomatic History- deals with the history of international relations between
states.
1.6. Economic History- is the academic study of economies or economic events of the
past.
1.7. Environmental History- deals with the history of human impacts on nature and
the interactions between humans and nature.
1.8. World History or Global History- is a field of historical study examines history
from a global perspective.
1.9. Cultural History- studies and interprets the record of human societies.
1.10. Social History- is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past.
1.11. Gender History- refers to the history of gender in all its aspects.
1.12. Public History- is the use of historical skills and methods outside of the traditional
academic realm of history.
2. Geography- the study of natural and human constructed phenomena relative to a spatial
dimension.
1.1. Physical Geography- study the Earth's atmosphere.
1.2. Human Geography- the branch of geography dealing with how human activity
affects or is influenced by the earth's surface.
3. Economics- the study of how people allocate scarce resources for production, distribution,
and consumption, both individually and collectively.
1.1. Microeconomics- is the study of decisions made by people and businesses
regarding the allocation of resources and prices of goods and services.
1.2. Macroeconomics- is a branch of economics that depicts a substantial picture. It
scrutinizes itself with the economy at a massive scale, and several issues of an
economy are considered.
4. Political Science- it is a discipline that deals with several aspects such as the study of state
and government.
1.1. Political Theory- is the study of political ideas and values like justice, power and
democracy that we use to describe, understand and assess political practices and
institutions.
 1.2. Public Law- the public law administers the relationship between the government and
individuals.
1.3. Public Administration- studies the implementation of government policy and
prepares future civil servants for work in the public service.
5. Sociology- The word sociology base on the etymology comes from, word, socius which
means “group of patterns and logos which means “science or study of”
1.1. Social Organization- covers the study of various social institutional, social groups, s
social stratification, social mobility, bureaucracy, ethnic groups and relations.
1.2. Social Psychology- deals with the study of human nature as an outcome of group
life, social attitudes, collective behavior and personality formation.
1.3. Social Change and Disorganization- Includes the study of the change in culture and
social relations and the disruption that may occur in the society. Deals with the study of
current social problems in society such as juvenile delinquency, criminality, drug
addiction, etc.
1.4. Human Ecology- Studies the nature and behavior of a give population and its
relationship to the group’s present social institutions.
1.5. Population and demography- the study of population number, composition, and
equality as they influence the economic, political and social system.
1.6. Sociological Theory and Method- Concerned with the applicability and usefulness of
the principles and theories of environment.
6. Anthropology- anthropos means man, logos means study. A scientific study of humanity,
concerned with human behavior, human biology, culture, and societies, in both present and past
including past human species.
1.1. Cultural Anthropology- also known as social anthropology, is the study of the
learned behavior of groups of people in specific environment.
1.2. Linguistic Anthropology- study of how language influences social life.
1.3. Biological Anthropology- also known as physical anthropology, the study of the
evolution of human beings and their living and fossil relatives.
1.4. Archaeology- the study of the human past using material remains.
1.5. Applied Anthropology- simply defined as the use of anthropological knowledge and
skills to solve real-world problems.