PHILOSOPHICA

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BACKGROUND
OF SOCIAL
STUDIES
SOCIAL STUDIES

Both very old and relatively new
 It is old in the sense of an organized reflection
on how to create and maintain a strong and
provides the best
secure society that
life for its citizen.

It is new because it is a continuous
study.
SCOPE OF SOCIAL STUDIES
 The understanding of humanity.
 Its interaction within the environment

 Geography

 History

 Sociology

 Other cultures

 Political studies and sciences

 Religious influence

 Overall understanding of the human psychology

PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES TO
SOCIAL STUDIES

There are lots of philosophical and scientific

approach to the study of society and its
problem.
POSITIVISM
 The approach to the philosophy of social science that
focus on conceptual analysis rather than
one actual practice of social research.
 People who support this approach of philosophy are

called POSITIVISTS.
HUMANISM
Humanists believed that the only way to understand
human behavior was through interpretation, paying close
attention to history.
 It stands for the building of a more humane society
through an ethics based on human and other natural
values in a spirit of reason and free inquiry through
human capabilities.
INTERPRETIVISM
 The INTERPRETIVISTS
 This Philosophy emphasizes qualitative analysis over
quantitative analysis.
INDIVIDUALISM
 The approach of philosophy that believes that all social
phenomena can be explained solely in terms of
individual psychological phenomena.
 It works under the philosophy of POSITIVISM
HOLISM
 Opposes the individualism
 Considers the social facts , facts that pertain to the
society rather than the individual member of society in
order to give a complete causal explanation of social
facts, we must invoke other social facts as causes.
 These people who study the society are required to keep
their own values and prejudices separate from the issues
they studied.
THANK YOU!!

-GROUP 2 & 3