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Emergence of The Social Sciences
Emergence of The Social Sciences
Social Sciences ”
Discipline and Ideas in the Social Sciences
11- HUMSS
CIEVEROSE COLLEGE INC.
2. PHYSICAL SCIENCE
• Physics
• Astronomy
• Chemistry
• Earth Science
SOCIAL SCIENCE
vs.
NATURAL SCIENCE
THINGS IN COMMON:
•Both sciences employ the scientific model in
order to gain information.
Physical
Anthropology
• The branch of anthropology concerned
with the study of human societies and
cultures and their development.
Cultural
Anthropology
ECONOMICS
• Aims to study how to manage the
limited resources to satisfy the
unlimited wants of individuals. It
is also seen as the production,
consumption, and transfer of
goods.
• It is how people interact with the
market to attain or accomplish
their certain goals.
Two major fields:
• The part of economics concerned
with single factors and the effects
of individual decisions.
Microeconomics
• The part of economics concerned
with large-scale or general
economic factors, such as interest
rates and national productivity.
Macroeconomics
GEOGRAPHY
• Deals with studying
the lands and
features of the earth.
Fields of Geography:
1. Systematic Geography
1. Physical Geography
2. Cultural/Human
Geography
2. Regional Geography
• The branch of geography dealing
with natural features and
processes.
Physical Geography
• The study of the many cultural
aspects found throughout the world
and how they relate to the spaces and
places where they originate and then
travel as people continually move
across various areas.
Cultural/Human Geography
• Branch of geography that studies
the world's regions.
Regional Geography
HISTORY
• Derived from the word
"historia" meaning "to
inquire or research".
• History mainly focuses on the
evolution of mankind and the
events that has taken place
within that evolution.
• The study of the past and
its records about events.
"History is the bridge that
connects the past with the
present and future."
Linguistics
• The scientific study
of languages and
focuses on the three
aspect of language:
language form,
language meaning,
and language in
context.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
• A social science which deals
with the system of governance
and the analysis of political
activities, political thoughts
and political behavior. It deals
extensively with the theory and
practice of politics which is
commonly thought of as
determining of the distribution
of power and resources.
PSYCHOLOGY
• The scientific study of
the mind and
behavior.
School of Major Area of Psychology:
Psychology: • Biopsychology
•Structuralis • Experimental
m • Developmental and
•Functionali personality psychology
sm •Health, clinical and
•Psychodyn counseling psychology
amic • Socio-industrial-
•Behavioris organizational
m consumer
•Cognitive • Cross cultural
•Socio- psychology
DEMOGRAPHY
• The study of human
population and dynamics
which include components
such as population size (actual
head count of people in a given
place of location), population
composition (age, sex,
religion), population growth,
population distribution.
-Ms. Ivy Polidario