Dominant Approaches and Ideas

of Social Sciences Psychoanalysis

and
Rational Choice
This topic will let you understand the different parts
of the brain, its purposes, and functions. It will help
you to identify ways to improve brain functions
which will be manifested in thoughts, behavior, and
feelings.
• Lesson 1 – Dominant Approaches and Ideas of Social
Sciences – Psychoanalysis

• Lesson 2 – Dominant Approaches and Ideas of Social

Sciences – Rational Choice
OBJECTIVES;
After going through the discussion, you are expected to:

1. Analyze the basic concepts and principles of the major Social

Science ideas

2. Interpret personal and social experiences using relevant approaches

in the Social Sciences.
 Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is defined as a set of psychological theories
and therapeutic techniques that have their origin in the work
and theories of Sigmund Freud.
The core idea at the center of psychoanalysis is the belief that
all people possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and
memories.
Sigmund
Freud
Father of
Psychoanalysis - Jewish
background, though
avowed atheist. –
He had a medical
background wanted to
do “neurophysiologic
research”. –
He had a private
practice in nervous and
brain disorders.
Rational Choice Theory
It is the view that people behave as they do because
they believe that performing their chosen actions has
more benefits than costs. That is, people make
rational choices based on their goals, and those
choices govern their behavior.
• Cost - an amount that has to be paid or spent
to buy or obtain something.
• Benefit - an advantage or profit gained from
something