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Discipline and Ideas in the Social Sciences

Activity #1. Identify the terms described by the following statements. Choose the correct
answer from the box below. Write your answer on the space after each statement.

Society Geography History

Demography
Scientific Method Syntax Science Phonology
Observation Political Science Economics
1. It is commonly defined as people in general thought of living together in organized
communities with shared laws.
2. It pertains to knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts,
3. It is a series of step by step procedure from observation in to collection of data.
4. It is a branch of social science that studied the Earth’s surface and all of the inhabitants.
5. It is the first step of the Scientific Method.
6. It is a branch of knowledge that tried to explain and understand the events happened in
past.
7. It is a discipline that concentrates on how a particular society solves its problem of
scarcity of resources.
8. It is the study of how words are formed into phrases.
9. It is the study of the sounds of language.
10. It is the science and statistical study of human population.

Activity #2. Write CORRECT if the statement is correct, if not replace the underlined
word with the correct term. Write your answer on the space after each statement.

1. Sociologists attempt to unravel the patterns in group behavior and not on specific
expressions of individual being.
2. Political scientists deal with the study of Earth’s feature and location of living things.
3. Natural science aims to explain and predict various phenomena in nature, such as cellular
composition, weather conditions.
4. Anthropologists deal with the study of supply and demand of consumption of goods and
services.
5. The Greeks are the first writers of history as discipline of social science.

Activity #3. Write the social science discipline related to the following sets of career
opportunities.

1. writers, journalists, translator, speech therapists

2. financial analyst, bank officer, investment analyst
3. museum worker, teacher, foreign worker, tour guide
4. cartographer, travel agent, photo specialist
5. government employee, urban planner, political analyst
Activity #4. Answer the following question.

1. What are the three branches of human knowledge and how are they different from one
another?