Disciplines

and Ideas
in the
Applied
Social Sciences

John Patrick P. Habacon

Lyceum of the Philippines University-Laguna
 PRESENTATION
FOR TODAY
Objectives:
• Demonstrate the abilities in interacting and relating with
other individuals, groups and communities.
• Apply social science principles, practices, and tools in
addressing the development areas.
• Analyze how processes in these applied discipline work
in specific life situations.
 Defining Social Sciences
• The disciplines that use the scientific
method to examine the social world
and “study human relations in a
society” (Jose and Ong, 2016 p.9)

• Body of knowledge characterized by an

objective to understand what society is
and what does it do to people living
inside it (Tatel, 2016 p.12)
Disciplines within the Social Sciences
APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE
• Application of social science
theories, concepts, methods,
and findings to problems
identified in the wider society
(Sampa, 2017)
• Interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary view and
approach to social issues,
policy, and response
 CONCEPTS IN
APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Counseling

Communication

Social Work
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Applied Social Sciences
-focus on a distinct issue
but use insights (i.e.
theories, concepts,
methods, and findings)
arising from various
social science disciplines
Social Sciences
-more specific;
focused on distinct
facet of a social
phenomenon
 FUNCTIONS AND EFFECTS
•Generate knowledge in an organic way for
evidence-based actions and solutions to
problems and issues
•Cause social science to become active
•Generate practical solutions to complex
social problems
 FUNCTIONS AND EFFECTS
•Communication provides accessibility to
information
•Counseling provides healing, courage, and
strength to an individual
•Social work promotes social change,
problem-solving, empowerment, and
liberation of people
 WHAT IS A SOCIAL ISSUE?
PERSONAL TROUBLE VS. PUBLIC ISSUE

Are privately felt problems that

spring from events or feelings in a
person’s life (Mills, 1959 as cited in
Andersen & Taylor, 2013)
 WHAT IS A SOCIAL ISSUE?
PERSONAL TROUBLE VS. PUBLIC ISSUE
Affect large numbers of people and have
their origins in the institutional
arrangements and history of the society
(Mills, 1959 as cited in Andersen & Taylor,
2013)
 ACTIVITY
Social Issues Social Science Applied Social Science
(Current – PH (What is?) (What ought to be?)
Context)