SOCIAL

SCIENCE
Study of how people BEHAVE, REACT and INTERACT in the
society.
PPLIE
SOCIAL
SCIENCE
Discipline and
Ideas in the
Applied Social
Sciences
DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED
SOCIAL SCIENCES.

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES
CHAPTER 2
COUNSELING
CHAPTER 3
SOCIAL WORK
CHAPTER 4
COMMUNICATION
 OXYGEN
According to Larsson and Wieselgren sees the social sciences as a
kind of “oxygen” in today’s globalized society.

‘As we need oyxgen to breathe, we also need social sciences to

understand and make sense of the world we are living.’
HAVE YOU EVER
IMAGINED THE
WORLD WITHOUT
INFORMATION?
DISS VS. DIASS
  Social science, any discipline or
branch of science that deals with
“DISS human behaviour in its social
VERSUS and cultural aspects.
 (KNOWLEDGE AND
BACKGROUND)
DIASS”
  Applied Social Science are
those academic social science
“DISS disciplines, professions and
VERSUS occupations which seek to
use basic social science
DIASS” knowledge.
 (APPLICATION OF
KNOWLEDGE TO THE
REAL WORLD)
 What is the difference of
DISS vs DIASS?

 Social science
Encompass only the concepts, ideologies,
definitions, and purposes of multiple disciplines
under it.
 Applied Social Science
Denote the integration of these knowledge and
information in dealing with resolving problems
and issues in the real world.
 SIMILARITIES
“DISS BASED OF SCIENTIFIC
VERSUS RESEARCH
DIASS” BEEN DONE WITH A
SCIENTIFIC
METHODOLOGY
 DIFFERENCES
PURPOSE: THEORY
PROVEN (DISS)
“DISS PURPOSE: SOLVING PROBLEM
(DIASS)
VERSUS
DIASS” METHODOLOGY:
QUALITATIVE (DISS)
METHODOLOGY:
QUALITATIVE AND
QUANTITATIVE (DIASS)
Branches of social science

 ANTHROPOLOGY
 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
 ECONOMICS
 DEMOGRAPHY
 POLITICAL SCIENCE
 PSYCHOLOGY
 SOCIOLOGY
 LINGUISTICS