COURSE

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1, LESSON 1
 What are the differences
between the social sciences
and the applied social
sciences? What are the
different disciplines of the
social sciences and the applied
social sciences?
 STATEMENTS

BEFORE THE AFTER THE

STUDY Social sciences is STUDY

the study of
society and the
manner in which
people behave and
affect the world.
 STATEMENTS

BEFORE THE AFTER THE

STUDY Social sciences are STUDY

only applicable in
the academe and
not in the
workplace.
 STATEMENTS

BEFORE THE AFTER THE

STUDY Applied social STUDY

scientists use and

borrow different
concepts, theoretical
models, and
theories from the
social science
disciplines.
 STATEMENTS

BEFORE THE AFTER THE

STUDY Guidance counseling is STUDY

a profession that helps

address a person’s
specific projects,
business success,
general conditions, and
transitions in life,
relationships, or
profession.
 STATEMENTS

BEFORE THE AFTER THE

STUDY Applied social STUDY

sciences provide
good theoretical
and conceptual
foundations for
social work
practice.
 STATEMENTS

BEFORE THE AFTER THE

STUDY Psychology studies STUDY

how the human

mind works in
consonance with the
body to produce the
thoughts that lead to
individual actions.
What is social
science?
 SOCIAL SCIENCE

○ are vast fields of

scientific studies that
investigate human societies
and different forces that
work within them.
 SOCIAL SCIENCE

▪ study of society and the

manner in which people
behave and impact the
world.
 APPLIED OR PURE
SOCIAL SCIENCE?
▪ ECONOMICS ▪ LINGUISTICS
▪ SOCIAL WORK ▪ POLITICAL SCIENCE
▪ HISTORY ▪ SOCIOLOGY
▪ PSYCHOLOGY ▪ COMMUNICATION
▪ GEOGRAPHY ▪ CONSELING
▪ DEMOGRAPHY ▪ ANTHROPOLOGY
BRANCHES OF THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES
1. ECONOMICS
 ECONOMICS

▪ Studies the optimum allocation

of scarce resources and how
individuals interact within the
social structure to address
questions regarding the
production and exchange of goods
and services.
2. ANTHROPOLOGY
 ANTHROPOLOGY

▪ Studies humans
and their culture in
the past and present
time.
3. HISTORY
 HISTORY

▪Studies past events in order

to understand the meaning,
dynamics, and relationship of
the cause and effect of events
in the development of human
societies.
4. POLITICAL
SCIENCE
 POLITICAL SCIENCE

▪ Studies government, power,

and politics and examines the
relationship between people
and policy at all levels from
the individual to the national
and international levels.
5. PSYCHOLOGY
 PSYCHOLOGY

▪ Studies how the human

mind works in consonance
with the body to produce
thoughts that lead to
individual actions.
6. SOCIOLOGY
 SOCIOLOGY

▪ A systematic study of
people’s behavior in groups
rather than individuals.
7. GEOGRAPHY
 GEOGRAPHY

▪ Studies the
interaction between
people and their
environments.
8. DEMOGRAPHY
 DEMOGRAPHY

▪ Scientific study of human

populations across time.
▪ It examines the changes in
population growth through the
analysis of statistics on birth, human
movement, and morbidity, agedness,
and mortality.
APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCES
 APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE

▪ Branch of study that applies the

different concepts, theoretical
models, and theories of the social
science disciplines to help
understand society and the different
problems and issues.
 BRANCHES OF
APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCES
COUNSELING
 COUNSELING

▪ Provides guidance, help and

support to individuals who are
distraught by a diverse set of
problems in their lives.
▪ Professional guidance given to an
individual by applying psychological
methods.
SOCIAL WORK
 SOCIAL WORK

▪ Discipline that focus on the

improvement of individual and
collective well-being of families,
groups, and communities.
COMMUNICATION
STUDIES
 COMMUNICATION STUDIES

▪ Provide adequate training for

careers in the field of journalism and
mass communication because of the
multidisciplinary knowledge and
skills that graduates from the social
sciences.
CHOOSE THE LETTER OF THE
CORRECT ANSWER
1.Studies the optimum allocation
of scarce resources and how
individuals interact within the
social structure to address
questions regarding the
production and exchange of
goods and services.
2. Which of the following is not a
field of the Social Science?
A. Counseling C. Demography
B. Political Science D.
Sociology
3. Studies changes in
population growth through the
analysis of statistics on birth,
human movement, and
morbidity, agedness, and
mortality.
4. Field of study that is focused on
the use and application of
different concepts, theoretical
models, and theories of the social
science disciplines to help
understand society and the
different problems and issues it
5. Which of the following is a
main discipline/professional track
of the applied social science?
A. Social Sciences
B. Natural Sciences
C. Applied Social Sciences
D. Behavioral Sciences
6. A discipline that provides
guidance, help, and support to
individuals through the
application of psychological
methods that includes case history
data, personal interviews, and
aptitude tests.
7. Which career opportunity will
mostly need an applied social
science practitioner?
A. Journalism
B. Engineering
C. Computer Science
D. Architecture
8. Field of study where
practitioners help individuals,
families, groups, and communities
enhance peoples’ skills and ability
to use their own resources and
that of the community to resolve
social and community problems.
A. Life coach C. Comm.Studies
B. Social work D. Journalism
9. Studies the interaction between
people and their environments and
explores both the physical
properties of Earth’s surface and
their relationship with human
societies.
10. Studies how people and group
experience the world through
various emotions, ideas, and in
different conscious states.
 CORRECT ANSWER

1. ECONOMICS
2. COUNSELING
3. DEMOGRAPHY
4. APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE
5. GUIDANCE COUNSELING
6. COUNSELING
7. JOURNALISM
8. SOCIAL WORK
9. GEOGRAPHY
10.PSYCHOLOGY
GROUP WORK