Branches of

Social Sciences
Learning Targets
• At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to be
able to:
1. Define Social Science as the study of society.
2. Distinguish the difference between the social
science; the natural science, and the humanities.
3. Compare and Contrast the various social science
disciplines and their fields
Anthropology
Anthropology
• Anthropology – is the
study of humankind.

• Anthropos Meaning
“human” and logos is
“study of” or “word”.
Anthropology
• Anthropologist attempt to find on so
many questions involving humans.
Physical Anthropology
• They search, excavate, and
study these hardened remains
as they try to formulate
theories on the origin of
human and their subsequent
variations.
Sub-Discipline of Physical Anthropology
SUBDISCIPLINES INTEREST

PALEOANTHROPOLOGY HUMAN EVOLUTION; EARLIER HOMINIDS

GENETICS GENE STRUCTURE; PATTERNS OF INHERITANCE

PRIMATOLOGY NON-HUMAN PRIMATES

OSTEOLOGY SKELETAL REMAINS

PALEOPATHOLOGY TRACES OF DISEASE AND INJURY IN HUMAN SKELETAL SYSTEM

FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN REMAINS

Cultural or Social Anthropology

• Involves the study and comparative analysis

of pre-literate societies, including all
aspects of human behavior.
Ethnography
• Provides accounts which forms the
basis for comparative studies of
many cultures.
• An ethnographer spends a long
period in a community under study
while he or she talks to people,
observes their ways and thought,
and records these observations
afterwards.
 Sub-Disciplines of Cultural Anthropology
SUBDISCIPLINE INTEREST
Urban Anthropology Issues of inner cities such as poverty,
immigration, and social stratification
Medical Anthropology Relationship between culture and health or
diseases
Economic Distribution of goods and resources within and
Anthropology between cultures
Economics
• Greek words oikos means “household”
and nomos meaning “customs” or
“law”
• The term “oikonomia” literally
translates as “management of
household”
• Purpose: “solves its problem of
scarcity of resources.”
• Analyzes how the economy
functions as a whole or basic
subdivisions, such as
government or business
sectors.
Inflation
Unemployment
National income
Government debt
GNP and GDP
Sin Tax Law
What is the effect of inflation to me?
Microeconomics
• Focuses on the behavior or individual agents,
like households, industries, and firms.
Experts measure price of specific product
Number of workers employed by a single firm
Expenditures of a certain family
 History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge
acquired by ____________")
 History
Studies the _________record of events from the past.
 • Is history written from a feminist perspective,
emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's
point of view
Political Science
 Political Science
• focuses on the theory and practice of ___________and politics at the local, state,
national, and international levels
Sociology
• Sociology is the study of social behavior or society,
including its origins, development, organization,
networks, and institutions.
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Geography
 GEOGRAPHY
is the study of places and the relationships between people
and their environments.
 Physical Geography
The branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes.
 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
The branch of geography dealing with how ______
activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface.
Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of the mind
and _______. 
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 Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human
activity through the recovery and analysis of ______
culture. 
• The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts
or ecofacts and cultural landscapes.