PROFESSIONS IN THE SOCIAL

SCIENCES
PROFESSIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

-Social sciences is the study of society and the manner in

which people behave and impact the world.
-Social scientists have different careers depending on their
respective degrees and specialization. Each field of the
social sciences focus on specific way of society.
-These seven different fields are : Economics,
Anthropology , History, Political science, Psychology,
Sociology, and Geography.
ECONOMICS
 Economists study the optimum allocation of scarce resources and
how individual interact within the social structure to address issues
on production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
 Economists use economic concepts, theories and analytical
techniques to provide advice and practical information that will aid
managerial planning and decision-making tasks.
 POSSIBLE CAREERS: economists, financial analyst, bank officer,
investment analyst, business consultant, business auditor, academic
career, ( teaching and research).
ANTHROPOLOGY
 Anthropologists study culture in the past and present time. A major concern of anthropologists is
the application of knowledge to solve the human problems.
 Anthropologists use different methods to study human culture and behaviour. These methods are:
1. Indirect observation
2. Direct observation
3. Participant observation
POSSIBLE CAREERS: archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, physical anthropologists ,
ethnologists , cultural specialists , museum curator, academic career, ( teaching and research).
HISTORY
Historians study past human events in order to understand
the meaning , dynamics and relationship of the causes and
effects of events as they happen through time.
Historians ask about what happened, why the event
happened, and what lessons can people learn from the event.
POSSIBLE CAREERS: Law, teaching, biographers,
researchers, museum curators, foreign service officer,
academic career (teaching and research).
 POLITICAL SCIENCE
 Politicalscientists study the different forms of processes of
government and the concepts of state, power, ideology , and politics
and the effects of these concepts to individuals and groups in
society.
 Fields of study: domestic politics, comparative politics, international
relations, political theory, public administration, and public law.
 POSSIBLE CAREERS: researcher, law, labor relation specialist,
foreign service officer, politician, public administrators, political
consultant, academic career ( teaching and research).
PSYCHOLOGY
 Psychologistsstudy how the human minds works in consonance
with the body to produced thoughts that lead to individual actions.
 When conducting physiological research, psychologists use
observational skills (watching human behavior and writing down
what is seen) analytical skill (determining the meaning of the
different patterns and reasons for pattern exceptions).
 POSSIBLE CAREERS: guidance counselor, life coach,
psychologists , social educator.
SOCIOLOGY
 Sociologists study people’s behavior in groups rather than in
individuals. They investigate how and why people interact with
each other and how they function as a society or social subgroups.
 Subfields: applied sociology, urban sociology, cultural sociology,
rural sociology, medical sociology, sociological sociology,
sociology of education, political sociology, and military sociology.
 POSSIBLE CAREERS: criminologists, market research analysts,
industrial, sociologists, academic career (teaching and research).
 GEOGRAPHY
 Geographers study of the interaction between people and their
environments.
 Main branches: Physical Geography and Human Geography
 Five themes: location ( position on the earth surface), place ( physical and
human characteristics), human- environment interaction( how people
use the earth resources) movement (how human are connected with each
other), and regions (basics units of study used to divide and understand
the earth and its people).
 POSSIBLE CAREERS: cartographer, urban geographer, researchers,
academic careers (teaching and research).
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