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SOCIAL SCIENCES
Prepared by: Daffodel M. Dadulla
What is
Social
Science?
DEFINITIONS
According to Seligman-“social sciences as those mental or cultural sciences which deal
with the activities of the individual as member of the group.
According to Mitchell “the term social science is loosely applied to any kind of study
concerning man and society.
According to Fairchild,” social science as a general term for all the sciences which are
concerned with the human affairs.”
According to Peter Lewis,” social sciences are concerned with the laws that govern
society and the social department of man.”
DEFINITIONS
deals with the activities of
individual as member of the group is an academic discipline
concerned with society and the
relationships among individuals
is a group of academic
within a society, which often rely
disciplines dedicated to primarily on empirical approaches.
examining society. This branch
of science studies how people is the study of the activities of the
interact with each other, behave, physical and social environment.
develop as a culture, and
influence the world.
Nature of Scientific Knowledge
◦ Systematically:
- gathered
- classified
- related
- interpreted
◦ Learning and applying concepts
DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
According to S R Rangnathan:
According to W.F.Ogburn and Education, Geography, History, Political Science,
A.Goldenweiser: Economics, Sociology, Law
Anthropology, Economics, History,
Political science, Sociology
Disciplines
of Social
Science
◦ is the study of the relationship between biological traits
and socially acquired characteristics. Sometimes called the
study of humans, it consists of two broad fields:
1. Physical anthropology
2. Cultural anthropology
◦ is the systematic study of relationships among people.
Sociologists assume that behavior is influenced by people’s
social, political, occupational, and intellectual groupings and
by the particular settings in which they find themselves at one
time or another.
◦ is the study of the natural environment and how it influences
social and cultural development
◦ is the study of the ways in which men and women make a
living, the most pressing most human beings face.
◦ is the study of social arrangements to maintain peace and
order within the society.
◦ deals with the mind and paersonality of the individual
◦ is the study of the past events.
THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGE
METHODS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
◦ is the study of the ways in which men and ◦ is the study of social arrangements to
women make a living, the most pressing maintain peace and order within the
most human beings face. society.
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CONSECTETUER ADIPISCING ENIM. FUSCE EST. VIVAMUS A MORBI TRISTIQUE SENECTUS ET
ELIT. TELLUS. NETUS.