SOCIAL SCIENCE

NATURAL SCIENCE
HUMANITIES
LESSON 02
From the role play…

 What were
the concepts/ideas
you discovered
in the community?
Explain…

 When we study our own society,

we also examine ourselves and the
community where we belong.
What can you say…

 Graffiti and vandalisms

What can you say…

 Advertisements
What can you say…

 Political Effigies
What can you say…

 Cinema
What can you say…

 Literature
What can you say…

 Human Body
Distinguish…

 Social Science
 Natural Science
 Humanities
 SOCIAL SCIENCE

A body of knowledge characterized by an

objective to understand what
society is and what does it do to
people living inside it
 SOCIAL SCIENCE
The word “social” situates the whole
discipline in people and their social contexts.
Whenever there are people and matters
or issues that affect them, social science
comes to the fore.
 Social science deals with people, with
the idea of being “human.”

Traditionally, social science disciplines most associated

with humanities are the following: history, anthropology
(including archaeology), and linguistics because they all
deal with the human past and touch on the meaning of
being human, which makes the whole exercise border
abstraction and subjectivity.
 Social science deals with people, with
the idea of being “human.”
Social science subject areas that are most
associated with empirical research and
aims are the following: economics,
sociology, psychology, political science,
and demography.
 SOCIAL SCIENCE
 In its primary interest lies in predicting
and explaining human behavior
 Involving the study of the social lives of
people, groups, and societies
 Natural Science

Understanding of science through

evidence, meaningful experiments,
weighing of possibilities, testing
hypothesis, and establishing theories, to get
to conclusion
 Natural Science

Branch of science that seeks to educate the

rules govern the natural world by using the
empirical and scientific method (physics,
chemistry, biology, earth science and
astronomy)
 Humanities
Came from the Latin word
‘Humanus’, as the study of how
humans have expressed themselves
through the arts throughout the
history.
 Humanities
Human Science as the study and interpretation of the
experiences, activities, constructs and artifacts
associated with human beings.
It attempts to expand and enlighten the human
being’s knowledge of his or her existence.
How is society different
from nature?
 Nature
 Nature conjures an image of random and unstructured forces
that shape a given area.
 These forces and events usually follow patter, law, or process,
ever since the world existed.
 These patterns and laws follow an amazing uniformity, which
enables a researcher to trace back what happened in the past by
looking at what is happening in the present.
Natural Sciences have developed
sophisticated ways on how to investigate
nature – how to learn more about it, discover
its secrets, and identify underlying universal
laws.
 Society

Society is a contrast to the preceding imagery of

nature. It is organized, deliberately structured and
formalized, and bound by rules drafted and
implemented by the people who themselves
constitute society.
 Fundamental Concepts of
Social Science Theories
Fundamental Concepts What does Social Science emphasize?
Patterns of behavior and interaction, which have been
Social Structure institutionalized over time; result
of human interaction with one another and
with the “social world” and “natural world”
Action Decisions, activities, and interactions made
by human beings in the context of their
particular social world and conditioned by
their collective consciousness
 Fundamental Concepts of
Social Science Theories
Fundamental What does Social Science emphasize?
Concepts
Individual Social actors, and active, mindful, and conscious decision makers

Nature Environment; social structures that provide the physical and

biological as well as the social context of collective action or social
phenomena

Culture Shared and collective actions, ideas, and values that are
demonstrated, exhibited, produced, and reproduced by a particular
group of people and communicated through symbols including
language
Social science disciplines pose different questions
but they actually observe a common social
phenomenon – everyday life events and activities
that involve people and affect people living
together in a particular society.
2 Elements of Social Science

SOCIETY (social)
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS (science)

Aim of Social Science – to characterize

the nature of being human