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Understanding the key concept,

principles
and processes of
humanities and social sciences

]sWHAT IS HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES?

The social sciences focusses on subjects like economics, psychology, and history,
while the humanities explore philosophy, languages and literature, and the arts.
Students following this pathway develop strong communication and critical
thinking skills, as well as an understanding of cultural differences.

What is humanities and social sciences strand all about?

 HUMSS stands for Humanities and Social Sciences. This strand focuses on the
study of human behavior and societal changes, and analysis of arts, culture,
literature, and politics. HUMSS subjects include political science, anthropology,
linguistics, psychology, and communication.

What Makes humanities different from social science?

 The difference between Humanities and Social Science is that the study of
humanities mainly focuses on the evaluative and analytic study of the cultural
factors of mankind and society in a more subjective manner whereas Social
Science analyses the scientific study of the relationship of humans within their
community.

Why it is important to study social sciences?

Put simply, the social sciences are important because they create better institutions
and systems that affect people’s lives every day. Thus, social sciences help people
understand how to interact with the social world—how to influence policy,
develop networks, increase government accountability, and promote democracy.

What are the benefits of social science?

Social Science can help us to understand why this is, and develop policies,
interventions and actions that can work with people to change to get better
outcomes for individuals and for society. Indeed, if there is a ‘point’ to the social
sciences, that is it. It is about improving our social and economic well-being.

Why do we need study Humanities?

A humanistic education will help you understand, appreciate, and produce art,
music, theatre, and literature. Humanities disciplines focus on understanding
beauty and the good, and give students the opportunity to practice making good
and beautiful things themselves.

What is the benefit of studying the Humanities?

The humanities help us understand others through their languages, histories and
cultures. They foster social justice and equality. The humanities encourage us to
think creatively. They teach us to reason about being human and to ask questions
about our world.

PRICIPLES OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

1- Economy

It is a social science mainly related to the study and analysis of the production,
distribution and consumption of goods and services, according to the Merriam-
Webster dictionary.

The discipline was renominated at the end of the 19th century by Alfred
Marshall from "political economy" to "economics" as a shorter term for
economic science at a time when the use of mathematics was on the rise.
 2- Political Science

Political science is the social science that deals with the study of government
systems, the analysis of political activities, political thoughts and political
behavior.

It broadly addresses the theory and practice of politics, which is commonly seen
as a determinant of the distribution of power and resources.

Political scientists are involved in revealing the relationships that underlie

political events and conditions, and these revelations attempt to build general
principles about the way the world of politics works.

Political science encompasses numerous subfields, including comparative

politic, political economy, international relations, political theory, public
administration, public policy, and political methodology.

In addition, political science is related and based on the fields of economics, law,
sociology, history, philosophy, geography, psychology and anthropology.

As a social science, contemporary political science began to take shape in the

second half of the nineteenth century when it began to separate from political
philosophy, which goes back to the works of Aristotle and Plato, written nearly
2,500 years ago.

3- Geography

The term geography , Comes from the Greek and means literally,"description of
the Earth". It is the field of social science, in charge of the study of the lands, the
characteristics, the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Earth.

The first person to use the word geography was Eratosthenes (276-194 BC).
Geography is a comprehensive discipline that seeks an understanding of the Earth
and its human and natural complexities, not only where objects are, but how they
have changed and become. The four historical traditions in geographic research
are:

1. Spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena

2. Area and region area studies
3. Studies of human-land relations
4. Earth sciences
Geography as a discipline can be broadly divided into two Secondary fields Main:
human geography and physical geography.

The first focuses primarily on the built environment and how humans create,
manage and influence space.

The last field examines the natural environment and how organisms, climate, soil,
water and landforms occur and interact.

The differences between these approaches led to a third field: environmental

geography, which combines physical and human geography and refers to the
interactions between the environment and humans.

4- Psychology

Psychology is the science that studies and analyzes the individual's behavior and
mental processes, encompassing all aspects of conscious and unconscious
experience, as well as thinking.

It is an academic discipline and is also a social science that seeks to understand

individuals and groups by establishing general principles and investigating specific
cases.

Psychologists explore behavior and mental processes, including perception,

cognition, attention, emotion (affection), intelligence, phenomenology, motivation,
brain functioning, and personality.

Maybe you might be interested The 10 specialties of psychology.

6 – Sociology

Sociology is the study of social behavior or society, including its origins,

development, organization, networks and institutions.

It is a social science that uses several Empirical research methods and critical
analysis to develop a body of knowledge about social order, disorder and change.

Many sociologists seek to carry out research that can be applied directly to social
policy and welfare, while others focus mainly on refining the theoretical
understanding of social processes.

The subject ranges from the level of micro-sociology of individual agency and
interaction, to the macro level of systems and social structure.

7- Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of various aspects of human beings within past and
present societies.

The social anthropology And cultural anthropology study the rules And the values
of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life.
Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of human
beings.

8- Demography

Demography is the statistical study of populations, fundamentally of humans. It is

dedicated to analyzing any type of dynamic population that changes over time or
space.
The demography includes studies on the structure, size or distribution of
populations, as well as the spatio-temporal changes of the same. With this we
speak of factors such as birth, migration, aging or death.

9- History
The history Is the study of records events occurring before prehistory. It is an
umbrella term that refers to past events, as well as to memory, discovery,
collection, organization, presentation and interpretation of information about these
events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.

10- Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of the form
of language, the meaning of language and language in context.

Linguists traditionally analyze human language by observing an interaction

between sound and meaning. Phonetics is the study of the sounds of speech and
non-speech, and deepens its acoustic and articulatory properties.

On the other hand, the study of the meaning of language deals with how languages
encode relationships between entities, properties and other aspects of the world to
transmit, process and assign meaning, as well as to manage and resolve ambiguity.

While the study of semantics is typically concerned with truth conditions,

pragmatics deals with how the situational context influences the production of
meaning.

11- Archeology

Archeology is about the study of human activity based on the recovery and
analysis of cultural material.
Besides being considered a social science, archeology also belongs to the branch of
humanities.

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