Introducing the

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
Session 2
 WHAT IS SCIENCE?
IT IS THE KNOWLEDGE OR STUDY OF
THE NATURAL WORLD BASED ON FACTS
LEARNED THROUGH EXPERIMENTS AND
OBSERVATIONS.
SCIENCE IS A DISCIPLINE OF
SYSTEMATIZED KNOWLEDGE COVERING
GENERAL TRUTHS TESTED THROUGH THE
SCIENTIFIC METHOD.
NATURAL SCIENCE vs SOCIAL SCIENCE

Probes various
Is about the aspects of human
physical features society (all
of nature and the those related to
ways in which behavior,
they interact and institutions, and
change. socialPsychology,
Examples: Anthropology,
Examples: Chemistry, Physics,
History, Economics, Political Science
Biology, Botany, Geology phenomena).
and Sociology
Goals of the Respective Social Sciences
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

ECONOMICS
• EXPLORE THE WAYS IN WHICH
PEOPLE PRODUCE AND
EXCHANGE GOODS AND
SERVICES
• ALLOCATION OF SCARCE
RESOURCES
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

HISTORY
 STUDY OF PAST EVENTS
 CONCERNED WITH THE PEOPLE
AND EVENTS OF THE PAST AND
ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO US TODAY
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

PSYCHOLOGY
 STUDY OF THE HUMAN MIND
AND BEHAVIOR
 MENTAL HEALTH IS AN
IMPORTANT FACET OF
PSYCHOLOGY
EMERGING SOCIAL SCIENCES

INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES
 CONCERNED WITH THE STUDY OF
POLITICAL ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND
CULTURAL ISSUES THAT EXTEND
BEYOND NATIONAL BOUNDARIES
 STUDIES THE DYNAMIC
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COUNTRIES
EMERGING SOCIAL SCIENCES

ISLAMIC
STUDIES  UMBRELLA TERM FOR ISLAMIC
SCIENCES
 COMPREHENSIVE KNOWLEDGE
OF ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL
HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS
THOUGHT
The main 3 social sciences for
understanding culture, society, and
politics
POLITICAL SCIENCE
 EXAMINATION OF THE
PRINCIPLES, ORGANIZATION AND
OPERATION OF GOVERNMENTS
AND THE EXERCISE OF POWER
AND AUTHORITY
ANTHROPOLOGY
 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PAST
AND PRESENT HUMAN
SOCIETIES, CULTURES AND THEIR
DEVELOPMENT
SOCIOLOGY
 STUDIES HUMAN SOCIETY,
HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIAL
BEHAVIOR AND INSTITUTIONS