Introducing the

disciplines within Social

Sciences
(Anthropology, Economics,
and Geography)
Week 1 - Module 1
 Learning Targets
 Differentiate the nature and functions of
Social Science disciplines with the natural sciences
and humanities
 Specific Learning Objectives
 Define Anthropology, Economics and Geography.
 Explore the nature and functions of Anthropology,
Economics and Geography
SCIENCE
 Can be described generally as
an effort to understand, explain
and make predictions about the
world using various methods
 SCIENCE

NATURAL SOCIAL
SCIENCE SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCES are group of academic
disciplines dedicated to examine the society. This
branch of science studies how people interact with
each other, behave, develop as a culture, and
influence the world.
You will be able to explore three disciplines of
Social Science in this lesson. The nature and
functions of Anthropology, Economics and
Geography.
GEOGRAPHY
ANTHROPOLOGY

PHYSICAL Physical Anrhropology,Which deals with the

ANTHROPOLOGY human physical form from the past to present

Cultural Anthropology (Also known as Social

CULTURAL
Anthropology), Which studies the human
ANTHROPOLOGY culture in all its aspects
ECONOMICS

Microeconomics, where the unit of anaylsis is

MICROECONOMICS the individual agent, such as a household or
firm.

Macroeconomics, where the unit of analysis

MACROECONOMICS is an economy as a whole.
GEOGRAPHY

Physical geaography examines phenomena

PHYSICAL related to the natural environment: Climate,
GEOGRAPHY Oceans, Soils, and the measurement of
earth.

Human Geopgraphy focuses largely on the built

environment and how space is created, viewed,
HUMAN and managed by humans as well as the influence
GEOGRAPHY humans have on the space they occupy through
fields as diverse as Cultural Geography,
transportation, health military operations and cities
ANTHROPOLOGY
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