Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

SHS LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

Name:
Score/
Mark:
Grade and Section: Date:
Strand:  GAS  ABM  HUMSS  (TVL Track) _____________
Subject: Discipline and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences
Teacher: Ms. Kriscia D. Roque
Type of Activity  Concept Notes  Skills: Exercise / Drill  Illustration
 Performance Task  Essay/ Report  Others: __________
Activity Title: Identification, and Venn Diagram
Understand the different disciplines of the social sciences and how it is
Learning Target:
related to nature and humanities.
References:
(Author, Title, Pages) MODULE
 Anthropologist one of the disciplines of social science. It is the study of humans in the past and in the present.
There are three specific sub-disciplines of anthropology: biological anthropology, cultural anthropology,
linguistic anthropology, and archaeology.
 Now that we have known the different discipline of social sciences, let us then check how we can differentiate one
from the others in terms of theirs fields, areas of inquiry and methods used in examining social phenomena.

 Anthropology focused on the human beings in both the biological and cultural aspects. Anthropologists believed
that culture is the most essential part of society, which is then moulded by both the natural and the social
environment.
 Economics however, focused on quantitative analysis in examining the behaviors within the society. Economists
focused in understanding the allocation of resources and how it affects the conditions in the society.
 Alternatively, linguistics focused on how language, as an invention by people, shapes the society itself. Linguists
examine the how language as a way of communication are changing along with the changes in the
environment. Political science on the other hand, focuses on how society is organized and how it affects human
life. Political scientists/analysts examine the relationships within the society and how the leaders uphold power.
 Psychology take a deeper look on individual psyche and how individual way of thinking affects one’s behaviors
and thus, relationships with the society. Psychologists examine the human mind and how it affects our actions
(Tatel Jr. 2016).
 Sociology is a discipline close to Anthropology. While anthropologists focused on how humans behave as an
individual being, sociologists focused on examining how humans behave as part of the social group (Tatel Jr.
2016). Meanwhile, historians focused on the past and how it can shape decisions in the present.
 Demography on one hand, utilized population as a unit to assess greater processes with the society, such as
migration.
 Geography focused on examining geographic locations and how it can determine the kind of society that will be
formed with such period of time.

WHICH IS WHICH: From the box below, determine which of the following disciplines of the Social Sciences
corresponds to given pictures. Write your answers in the blank.
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
Overview
Views society as a complex system with many interdependent parts wherein the parts work together to promote social
stability and order

Theorists

Emile Durkheim- draws an analogy between the way a biological organism works and society. The various organs of a
living thing work together in order to maintain a healthy whole in much the same way that various institutions in society
work together to produce social order.
Max Weber- believed that Bureaucratic coordination of human action is the distinctive mark of modern social structures.
Further, he stated that, in a society, there should be:

 Hierarchy of authority
 Written rules of conduct
 Promotion should be based on achievement
 Specialized division of labor
Consensus and Conflict Theory

Consensus

 Sees shared norms and values as fundamentals to society

 Focuses on social order based on tacit/unspoken agreements
 Examines value integration in society
 Absence of conflict as the equilibrium state
 A collection of theories in which social order and stability is the base of emphasis
 Concerned with the maintenance or continuation of social order in relation to norms, values, rules, etc.
 Emphasizes the dominance some social groups
 Social order as based on manipulation and control by dominant groups
 Asks how schools contribute to the unequal distribution of people into jobs in society
 Education plays a big part in maintaining the prestige, power, and economic and social position of the dominant

Conflict

 The powerful classes dominate education

 All education is experienced through the knowledge that is approved for each social class
 Formal educational structures support the preferences of the elite
 Four (4) Primary Assumptions of Modern Conflict Theory
 Competition Structural Inequality Revolution

Activity 1: Concept Map

Write at least 3 ideas of the word CONSENSUS

.
Activity 2: Group Work.
Each group will present their own ideas of the roles or functions of the following organizations/structures of the
society:
1. FAMILY
2. CHURCH
3. SCHOOL
4. GOVERNMENT
5. MEDIA