DISCIPLINE AND

IDEAS IN THE
SOCIAL
SCIENCES(DISS)
Subject Description

The course introduces students to basic

concepts, subjects and methods of
inquiry in the disciplines that comprise
the Social Sciences. It then discusses
influential thinkers and ideas in these
disciplines, and relates these ideas to the
Philippine setting and current global
trends.
Grading System

Performance Task- 45%

Written Task- 25%
Quarterly Assessment- 30%
DEFINING SOCIAL
SCIENCES
A S A STUDY OF
SOCIETY
ACTIVITY:
Look at the picture and
discuss your thoughts
and ideas on the group
A
B
C
D
ANALYSIS
:
ANALYSIS
: when look these photos?
1. What is your interpretation

2. What were your thoughts

regarding the
pictures?
3. Do you believe the ideas in
the pictures? Explain your
ABSTRACTION:
What is Social Science?

Social sciences are a group of academic

disciplines dedicated to examining society.
This branch of science studies
how people interact with each
other, behave, develop as a
culture, and influence the world.
Understanding Social Sciences
Social sciences help
to explain how
society works,
exploring everything
from the triggers
of economic growth
and causes
of unemployment to
what makes people
happy.
Understanding Social Sciences
This information is
vital and can be
used for many
purposes. Among
other things, it
helps to shape
corporate
strategies and
government
policies.
Social science as a field of study is
separate from the natural sciences,
which cover topics such as physics,
biology, and chemistry.
Social science examines the
relationships between individuals
and societies, as well as the
development and operation of
societies, rather than studying the
physical world.
These academic disciplines rely
more heavily on interpretation and
qualitative research
methodologies.
The social sciences include:

Anthropology

Economics

Political science

Sociology

Social psychology
History is also
sometimes regarded as a
social science, although
many historians often
consider the subject to
share closer links to the
humanities.
Both humanities and social sciences study
human beings. What separates them is
technique: humanities are viewed as more
philosophical and less scientific. Law, too, has
some ties to social sciences, as does
geography.
History of Social Sciences
The origins of social sciences can be
traced back to the ancient Greeks.
The lives they led, and their
early studies into human
nature, the state, and
mortality, helped to shape
Western civilization.
Social science as an academic field of
study developed out of the Age of
Enlightenment (or the Age of Reason),
which flourished through much of the
18th century in Europe.
Adam Smith, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant,
and David Hume were among the big
intellectuals at the time who laid the
foundations for the study of social sciences
in the Western World.
The history of the social
sciences has origin in the common
stock of Western philosophy and
shares various precursors, but began most
intentionally in the early 19th century
with the positivist philosophy of science.
Since the mid-20th century, the
term "social science" has come to
refer more generally, not just to
sociology, but to all those
disciplines which analyse society
and culture;
from anthropology to linguistics t
o media studies.
NATURAL SCIENCE AND
HUMANITIES
Social Science is different
from Natural Science
and Humanities because
the primary interest lies
in predicting and
explaining human
behavior.
NATURAL
SCIENCE
Aims to predict all natural
phenomena and its studies
are based on experimentally
controlled condition of
material entities.
HUMANITIES
Seeks to understand “human
reactions to events and the
meanings humans impose
on experience as a function
of culture, historical era,
and
life history.”
Using Scientific Method
the three fields units
but it is more
commonly use in the
social science and
natural science than
Scientific Method is a
systematic and logical
approach in
acquiring and
explaining
knowledge.
It involves a step by
step procedure of
identifying the
problem, formulating
and hypothesis by
gathering and analyzing
It is important in social
science since it is the
instrument by which issues
and problems are examined
and recommendations fro
policy making are offered
depending on the findings of
the study conducted.
APPLICATIO
Using
N paper and pen:
1. How does social science related to
society?
2. What are the roles of social science
in the society?
3. fill out a concept map showing
the definition of social
science as a study of society.
SOCIETY
ASSIGNMENT
Bring any indigenous or
recycled materials or art
materials about the
community to be used in
their diorama activity.
QUESTIONS?
Quick Assessment( Identify what is being asked in this statement. )

1. Aims to predict all

natural phenomena and its
studies are based on
experimentally controlled
NATURAL
condition of material
SCIENCE
entities.
Quick Assessment( Identify what is being asked in this statement. )

2. Seeks to understand
“human reactions to
events and the meanings
humans impose on
experience as a function of HUMANITIES
culture, historical era, and
life history.”
Quick Assessment( Identify what is being asked in this statement. )

3. Are group of academic

disciplines that focus on
how individuals behave
within society. It is done
scientifically. SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Quick Assessment( Identify what is being asked in this statement. )

4. Is a systematic and
logical approach in
acquiring and explaining
knowledge.
SCIENTIFIC
METHOD
Quick Assessment( Identify what is being asked in this statement. )

5. The origins of social

sciences can be traced
back to the ancient
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GREEKS