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Objective:
•Define Social Science.
•Distinguish Social Science, Natural
Sciences and Humanities.

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HISTORICAL BACKGORUND

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 HISTORICAL BACKGORUND
AUGUSTE COMTE (1798-1857)
- coined the word sociology.
- Father of Sociology.
- sociology is the “CROWNING
EDIFICE”.
: serves to bring all other
sciences into relationship with
each other.
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HISTORICAL BACKGORUND
AUGUSTE COMTE (1798-1857)
- Sociology was the most
complex science to learn
because it had to study the
hardest thing to understand,
which was society.

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Defining Social Science

•SOCIAL: relating to human society

•SCIENCE: the systematic study of
the structure and behavior of the
natural and physical world.
• What does SOCIAL SCIENCE study?

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Defining Social Science

Social Science is the study of society

and the manner in which people
behave and influence the world
around.
- how people interact with one
another.
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SOCIAL
SCIENCE VS
NATURAL
SCIENCE AND
HUMANITIES
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SOCIAL SCIENCE

- Study of society
- focus on how society works.
- how individuals and groups
interact with one another.
- what drives human behavior.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE AND
NATURAL SCIENCE
Natural Science
- deals with the natural world.
- concerned with the phenomena
and objects of nature and the
physical world.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE AND
NATURAL SCIENCE
Natural Science
- studies biological science and
physical science.

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 SOCIAL SCIENCE NATURAL SCIENCE
✓Deals with subject ✓Deals with object.
(human beings). ✓Predictable,
✓Unpredictable and
uncontrollable. ✓Biology, Physics,
Chemistry, Earth
✓Geography,
Linguistic, Science.
Economics,
Anthropology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE AND
HUMANITIES
Humanities
- focus on the study of arts and
cultural factors of mankind.
- the study of the ways in which the
human experience is processed and
documented.
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 SOCIAL SCIENCE HUMANITIES
✓Objective. ✓Subjective.
✓Relies on scientific ✓Analytical
approach. approach.
✓Economics, ✓Art, Literature,
Political Science, History, Philosophy,
Psychology, etc. Music, etc.

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ACTIVITY (TRUE OR FALSE)
1. Social Science is the study of
society.
2. Social Science focuses on how
individuals and groups interact
with one another.
3. Natural Science deals with both
life and physical science.
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ACTIVITY (TRUE OR FALSE)
4. Natural Science deals with
humans’ patterned behaviors.
5. Humanities is the study of the
ways in which the human
experience is processed and
documented.
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thank you!