PRAYER BEFORE STUDY

Creator of all things, true Source of light and wisdom,

lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of Your brilliance
penetrate into the darkness of my understanding
and take from me the double darkness
in which I have been born, an obscurity of both sin and ignorance.
Give me a sharp sense of understanding,
a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and
fundamentally.
Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations,
and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm.
Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in completion;
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
 INTRODUCTION
TO
SOCIAL SCIENCES
GETTING TO KNOW U
Introduce yourself and share
to the class the branch of
Social Sciences that you love
the most.
HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Ancient Philosophy
• Age of Revolution
 Scientific Revolution
 Enlightenment
 French Revolution
 Industrial
AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
• John Locke on Two
Treaties of Government

• Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

• The Spirit of Laws by

Montesquieu
AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
• Auguste Compte’s Sociology

• Functionalism of Emile Durkheim

• The Dialectic Economic System of

Karl Marx
NATURAL SCIENCES
A major branch of science that
deals with the description,
prediction and understanding of
natural phenomena, basically
based on observational and
empirical evidence.
Life Science/ Biological Science
It studies life in all its forms, past
and present. This includes plants,
animals, viruses and bacteria,
single-celled organisms, and even
cells.
Physical Science
This is the systematic study of the
inorganic world, as distinct from
the study of the organic world,
which is the province of biological
science.
Physics
The science in which matter and
energy are studied both
separately and in combination
with one another.
Astronomy
The scientific study of celestial
objects (such as stars, planets,
comets, and galaxies) and
phenomena that originate outside
the Earth's atmosphere (such as the
cosmic background radiation).
Chemistry
The study of matter and its
transformations and the
development of methods to
manipulate those transformations to
create new and useful forms of
matter.
Earth Science
The study of the Earth and its
neighbors in space. It is an exciting
science with many interesting and
practical applications.
HUMANITIES
The study of the ways in which
the human experience is
processed and documented.
 DIFFERENCES
SOCIAL SCIENCE NATURAL SCIENCE

Arose 300 years later Started during the 16th and 17th
century.

Deals with subject (human being) Deals with object.

It is spontaneous, unpredictable and Characterized by exactness, controlled

uncontrollable, as it deals with human variables, and predictability.
emotions and behavior.
 DIFFERENCES
SOCIAL SCIENCE HUMANITIES

Influenced by and developed after the

French revolution and the Industrial Emerged in the 15th century.
revolution.

Social science deals with more scientific Humanities involved more of a scientific
approach. approach.

Involves application of an empirical, Deemed to be more philosophical and

rational, and objective methodology concerned with heritage and the
(such as the use of validity and question of what makes us human. It
reliability test) to present facts. comprises the application of an
interpretative methodology.
 FUNCTIONS
SOCIAL SCIENCE
• To analyze, explain, and possibly
predict and produce new knowledge of
factual information
• To generate and produce new
knowledge or factual information
HUMANITIES
• To better appreciate the meaning and
purpose of the human experience - both
broadly in the nature of the human
condition, as well as within each
individual