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ACTIVITY:
RECALL, RETHINK, REWRITE:
In the previous lessons, you studied the basic concepts and principles of ideas in the
Social Sciences. Let us test your knowledge and understanding of the lessons by answering
the activity below.

Directions: Write the concepts and principles of the Social Science ideas.

Social Science Ideas Concepts and Principles

Psychoanalysis A theory of mind that has as its core the

idea that each of us has an unconscious
part whose existence, activities and
thoughts are hidden behind a mental
barrier that we cannot voluntarily
remove. Thus, in order to understand
motivation, you must understand what is
in your unconscious memory.

Rational Choice a theory for understanding and often

modelling social and economic as well
as individual behaviour. It is often
asaociated with the concepts of
rationality assumptions. The self-
interest that would not always take part
in collective action to accomplish a
common goal. When faced with several
courses of action, people usually do
what they believe is likely to have the
best overall outcome.

Institutionalism Institutionalism is a method by which

scholars take institutions as subject of
study in order to find and trace patterns
and sequences of social, political,
economics behavior and change across
time and space. It relies heavily on case
studies, and most of these studies rely
heavily on the study of formal
institutions or the formal rules. It
emphasizes the autonomous role of
institutions in shaping human behavior
and history. Political thinking has its
roots in the analysis and design of
institutions.
Feminist Theory Attempts to describe women’s
oppression, explain it causes and
consequences. Feminist theories
recover and explore the aspects of
societies that have been suppressed,
unarticulated, or denied within male
dominant viewpoints. To understand
women’s oppression-how it evolved,
how it changes over time, how it is
related to other forms of oppression.

Hermeneutical Phenomenology lived experience that is revealed to us in

such a fashion that we are now able to
grasp the nature and significance of this
experience in a hitherto unseen way. All
experience is articulable in principle;
although it is not reducible to its
articulation, it is brought into being for
us through its symbolic representation.
We cannot share anyone else's reality
except through the mediation of our
symbolic world and it is not separate
from our beings.

Human-Environment Systems Systems which combine both human

and natural components to show
complex interactions, and feedback
between them. DPSIR model is the most
internationally acccepted framework that
recognise the human activities which
place pressure on the environment and
how these pressures modify the current
state of the atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere and biosphere. In turn,
human society attempts to
problem-solve in order to remove,
reduce or prevent the drivers and
pressures, restore the state of the
environment and mitigate impacts.