MANUEL L.

TEVES MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Activity Sheets in Discipline and Ideas in th Applied Social Sciences
Quarter 1 Module 1 Week 1
Content Standard: The learners demonstrate an understanding of social sciences and applied social sciences
Performance Standard: The learners shoul be able to explain clearly public perceptions about the work of social
sciences and applied social science practitoners
Learning Competencies: Clarify the relationships between pure social sciences and applied social sciences; cite
differences among the applied social sciences

Lesson 1
What I Know

Activity 1. IS IT TRUE?

Directions: Read and understand the statements very carefully. Write TRUE if the statement is true and FALSE if
it is incorrect.
_____________1. Natural science is the study of society and the manner in which people behave and influence
the world around us.
_____________2. Social science is the study of how natural phenomena around us work which includes biology,
botany and zoology etc.
_____________3. Geography studies the allocation of scarce resources and how individuals interact with social
structure to address questions about production.
_____________4. Counseling is a a field of Applied Social Science.
_____________5. Demography studies the analysis of statistics of birth, human movement, morbidity, and
mortality.

What is It
Defining Pure Social Sciences
Social Science is a field of knowledge which aims in predicting and explaining human behavior. Humanities seeks to
understand human reactions to events and the meanings impose on experience as a function of culture, historical era and
Life History. Natural Sciences aims to predict natural phenomena and its studies are based on experimentally controlled
existence.
Social Sciences explore the historical, cultural, sociological, psychological, and the political forces that shape the actions
of individuals and their impact on society. The different disciplines under social sciences all help us in providing better
understanding and appreciation of the complex issues that we face society. Take a look in the diagram below.

In the field of Pure social sciences, we consider in the study the different disciplines as we face the different issues we try
to solve in the society. For example, the problem of poverty, we consider these disciplines as to how they see the problem.
How does it exist? And why poverty continue to exist? In the field of Economics, perhaps you could say that it exists
because economically there is scarce resources and that goods and services are priced high and some people cannot attend
or meet these needs and also some are underemployed or unemployed. People who study to solve social problems are
called social scientist. In their study, they solve these social problems systematically in a process called scientific method.
Scientific method refers to standardized ways of techniques for building scientific knowledge systematically such as how
to interpret and generalize results which start from identifying problems and ends with conclusions and recommendations.
Steps in Scientific Method: 1. Defining the problem 2. Reviewing the related Literature 3. Forming Hypothesis 4.
Collecting and Analyzing Data 5. Drawing Conclusions and Recommendations
Disciplines of Applied Social Sciences
1. Counseling is a field/discipline of applied social sciences which provides guidance, help and support to individuals
who experience a diverse set of problems in their lives. In this discipline you can learn about how important it is to listen
to some problems of other people and provide guidance to them to help them solve their own problems.
2. Social Work is another professional activity of the applied social sciences. Here practitioners or those who practice a
certain work, help individuals and families to improve their collective being. In the succeeding lessons, you will surely
learn about this discipline.
3. Communication Studies provide adequate training for careers in the field of journalism and mass communication. If it
happened you see news in TV, those people who work to provide us information through any media or means fall in this
discipline. Good communication skills are also important in counseling as well as in social work.
Remember that through the application of good journalism together with the correct knowledge of the different
disciplines in the social sciences, applied social scientists have enough skills to be able to write, produce, report and
deliver news accurately and creatively to the viewing public.
Defining the Applied Social Sciences
To trace the history of Applied Social Sciences, this began as a result of the reaction during late 1990’s when the different
disciplines of social sciences, the history, psychology history, political science, demography and others were seen as
highly segmented or divided. Scholars argued that these disciplines should work together to solve social problems. This
approach of working together, like combining the different disciplines in solving different social problems became the
focus of the applied social sciences.
Applied Social Sciences focus on the use and application of the different concepts, theoretical models, theories from Pure
Social Sciences to help understand people and the society including the different problems and issues it faces.
Applied Social Scientists can use his/her training in different work settings and use the different theories in analyzing
social problems and help to solve these.

Disciplines of Applied Social Sciences

1. Counseling is a field/discipline of applied social sciences which provides guidance, help and support to individuals
who experience a diverse set of problems in their lives. In this discipline you can learn about how important it is to listen
to some problems of other people and provide guidance to them to help them solve their own problems.
2. Social Work is another professional activity of the applied social sciences. Here practitioners or those who practice a
certain work, help individuals and families to improve their collective being. In the succeeding lessons, you will surely
learn about this discipline.
3. Communication Studies provide adequate training for careers in the field of journalism and mass communication. If it
happened you see news in TV, those people who work to provide us information through any media or means fall in this
discipline. Good communication skills are also important in counseling as well as in social work.
Remember that through the application of good journalism together with the correct knowledge of the different
disciplines in the social sciences, applied social scientists have enough skills to be able to write, produce, report and
deliver news accurately and creatively to the viewing public.
What’s More

Activity A. “ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT”

Directions: Try to complete this statement about Applied Social Science and write it in your notebook.

1. I learned that Applied Social Science is about:

2. I know why it is important to study because:

3. As a student I can use this knowledge to:

 What I can do
Try to research in the internet about the problem of Depression. Write a short report on the existence of Depression in our
country, its causes and effects to people. Then write your short recommendation on how are we going to fight against
depression and why we need to solve this problem.
Assessment
Understanding Check Directions: Identify what concept is asked in the following statements. Choose your answer from
the choices provided inside the box below. Write the answer on the space before each number.

Anthropology History Geography Semantics Cultural Anthropology Archaeology Pragmatics

Economics Psychology Linguistics Microeconomics Morphology Macroeconomics Political
Science Demography

_____________1.The study of ancient societies and their cultural traditions.

_____________2. A social science discipline that mainly specified to understand how people think and why they behave
in a certain way.
_____________3. A field/branch of Anthropology that seeks to investigates the cultural features of the societies like
language, kinship pattern and marriage customs.
_____________4. The study of human population.
_____________5. The study of the efficient allocation of scarce resources in order to satisfy unlimited human needs and
wants.
_____________6. The study of the recorded past.
(Choose your answer still from the box. Understand carefully what social science discipline is portrayed in the following
situations. )
_____________7. Peter wants to scientifically study language, how words came to be , letters & its sounds and etc.
_____________8. Jhonalyn studies of how words are categorized or formed.
_____________9. Vember, a grade 11, HUMSS student,studies the behavior and performance of the economy of our
country; the impact of export and import relationship, the peso and dollar exchange and etc., creating his own Blog on the
net for the readers to know our present economic situation.
_____________10. Jericho studies the behavior of individuals, households and individual firms in the market of his
municipality.
Additional Activity
Choose Me!
Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before each number.
_______1. Which of the following is not a field of Pure Social Science?
A. Counseling B. Demography C. Political Science D. Sociology
_______2. Which of the following is a main discipline/professional track of the applied social science?
A. Political Science B. Demographic Studies C. Guidance Counseling D. Sociological Research
_______3. A discipline that provides guidance, help and support to individuals though the application of psychological
methods and procedures.
A. Political Science B. Demographic Studies C. Guidance Counseling D. Sociological Research
_______4. Which career opportunity will mostly need an applied social science practitioner?
A. Journalism B. Architecture C. Agriculture D. Industrial Technology
_______5. Field of study where practitioners help individuals, groups, families and communities to enhance people’s
capabilities and skills to use their own resources and help them solve their own social problems.
A. Guidance Counseling B. Communication Studies C. Teacher-Education D. Social Work
Prepared by:
MA. MAIKA C. CASIDO