LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

DIASS - Functions of Applied Social Sciences

4th Quarter – WEEK 5

MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING COMPETENCY

Explain each of the functions of applied social sciences.
Identify situations that would require or necessitate the performance of the various functions in local /Philippine settings.

DAY 1 APRIL 29, 2024

What I Know
Directions: Read each item carefully. Write the word TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is wrong. Use one whole sheet of
paper to write your answers.

_____1. The applied social sciences also allow us to understand better and probe deeper into the different problems and issues affecting an
individual, group and society.
_____2. The surveillance function of the media refers to the importance of the same mass media to national security.
_____3. Disaster risks cannot be prevented and mitigated through the use of the applied social sciences.
_____4. Social media is not a powerful channel of communication.
_____5. The following are social workers’ roles in direct service: social broker, enabler, therapist, documenter, and mobilizer.
_____6. Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.
_____7. The applied social sciences can help persuade people to change their beliefs, attitudes, and behavior.
_____8. Primary settings in social work practice include the schools, hospitals, correlational facilities, human resource departments,
corporations, government planning departments, and political offices.
_____9. Social work focuses only on individual and personal problems.
_____10. The applied social sciences can introduce ways to achieve long lasting peace through a practitioner’s knowledge and application of the
political processes that include peace-building processes and conflict management mechanisms.
_____11. The impact of climate change to society and its overarching effect on the Philippines can be easily understood through the application of
the social sciences.
_____12. Counseling allows us to understand one’s personality including various problems and issues that may affect an individual.
_____13. In business organizations and public relations organizations, applied social scientists are important because they serve as market
research.
_____14. Entertainment-oriented programs are not important to society.
_____15. The way we perceive or view things, people, events and our environment is influenced by our values.

What’s In
Directions: Drill: FACT OR BLUFF on Communication Media Channels.

1. Communication involves the giving and receiving information and ideas.

2. Communication is not an interest based.
3. In mass media, audience are obliged to pay attention or give feedbacks.
4. Blogging and social networking are the most prominent forms of social media.
5. Mass media does not contain much of the sender, message, and receiver.
 What’s New
Direction: Write YES if the following sentences require the functions of the applied sciences and NO if otherwise. Use your notebook for your
answers.

1. A student who has failing grades in science and math.

2. There is an increase on the number of street children in Dumaguete City.

3. A student is not talking for almost a quarter in a class.

4. Mr. and Mrs. Cruz have a happy family.

5. Richard is assertive in his ideas and feelings in class in a nice manner.

How can Applied Social Sciences help us?

Self-Development
- includes actions that affects the persons’ awareness and identity.
12 Steps to Self-development:

 Self-esteem  Sense of Humor  Excellence

 Wellness  Attitude  Self-management

 Communications  Assertiveness  Creativity

 Relationships  Job Skills  Leadership

Persuasion

- can attempt to influence a person’s beliefs, attitudes, intention, motivation or behaviors.

- It is a symbolic process in which communicators try to convince other people to change their attitudes or behavior regarding an
issue through the transmission of a message in an atmosphere of free choice.
Arts and Entertainment

- is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.
Education

- is a process by which children and adults learn more from others.

- preparation for social praxis in the present and emerging contexts in as much as it is an essential means to economic and human
capital development for individuals and communities.
News and Information

- is a packaged information about current events happening somewhere else.

Organizing Advocacy and Mobilization
- Advocacy groups uses various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion policy.
Socialization

- Is a powerful driver of development.

- It is a symbolic process in which communicators try to convince other people to change their attitudes or behavior regarding an
issue through the transmission of a message in an atmosphere of free choice.

The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution

By the cognitive aspect in socialization is meant not only the creation and modification of group and personal opinion, but also the use and
improvement of social and individual technique, a function of the mental interaction of the members of the group. The fund of knowledge of the
group, its proverbs, its creed, and its theory; the technical equipment of the group, its tools, its weapons, its medical remedies, and its types of skill;
its approved ways of doing things, its standards, and its ideals are all social developments in the knowledge phase of life. Before entering into an
analysis of the function of intellectual development in the socialization of the person, we shall consider the role that socialization in the noetic phase
has played in human experience and how far this evolution in the intellectual side of life multiplies the social spirit, or facilitates and rationalizes its
expression.
The cognitive aspect of consciousness in its growth, not only (a) is closely dependent upon socialization, but (b) has played a role of
increasing importance in promoting the socializing process. The development of the art of language, so obviously at once effect and cause of social
interrelations, made possible abstraction and the evolution of the higher forms of reasoning out of the germ present in perception. The invention of
writing and of the printing-press, feasible only because of the existence of a leisure class in a stable social order, facilitated the communication
between the minds of every age, thereby inestimably promoting the accumulation, criticism, and the diffusion of knowledge.
DAY 2 APRIL 30, 2024

What’s More
Direction: “Picture Analysis”: Identify the picture whether the functions of applied social sciences are “NEEDED” or “NOT NEEDED”.
Justify. Write your answers in your one whole sheet of paper.

1. ____________ 2. _______________ 3. _______________

4.____________________ 5.____________________

Prepared by:

JESSICA M. RUZ
Subject Teacher

Checked by:

DARWIN V. CAPIAN
OIC HT – AP

Reviewed by:

CHERYLE ANN A. CELESTINO, EdD

SHS Focal Person

Noted:

AURABEL S. NAVARRA,EdD
School Head