SOCIAL SCIENCE

DISCIPLINES:
HISTORY,
METHODS, AND
AREAS OF INQUIRY
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

01
Compare and 02 03
contrast the Trace the
various social Distinguish historical
science Social and foundations and
disciplines and Natural Sciences social contexts
their fields, and Humanities that led to the
main areas of development of
inquiry, and each discipline.
methods
What is Social Sciences as the study of
society?

Social science is a group of academic

disciplines that focus on how
individuals behave within society.
 Aims of Teaching Social Science in
Schools:-
• It gives knowledge about civilization and culture.
• It provides knowledge of social development.
• It develops social behavior.
• It develops civil qualities.
• It develops the power of thinking and reasoning.
• It develops the feeling of universal brotherhood.
• It develops modernization.
• It develops suitable proficiency and good habits.
• It develops the moral and social values.
• It develops the all-round personality.
 Aims of Teaching Social Science in
Schools:-

1. WHAT IS NATURAL SCIENCE?

2. WHAT IS SOCIAL SCIENCE?
3. WHAT IS HUMANITIES?
 DISCIPLINES OR BRANCHES IN THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES
 Anthropology Economics
 Geography History
 Linguistics Political Science
 Psychology Sociology
 Demography
 ANTHROPOL
1 OGY
The word anthropology is derived from the Greek
“anthropos”, meaning “human”, and the word
“logos”, meaning “knowledge”. Anthropology is
dedicated to the study of the human being as a
whole. Anthropology is the science that studies the
response of human beings to their environment,
interpersonal relationships and the social and
cultural framework in which they develop.

1. Physical Anthropology
2. Cultural Anthropology
 GEOGRAPHY
2 Geography studies the interaction between the natural
environment and people living in it. It comes from the
Greek words: geo meaning “Earth” and graphos
meaning “charting or mapping.” Geography is one of
the fundamental branches of social sciences as it
studies lands, their salient features, crucial phenomena
that impact the earth along with the human population
and the relationship between the study of land and the
human population.

1. Physical Geography
 LINGUISTICS
3 Linguistics came from the Greek word lingua,
meaning language.” This discipline studies the
nature of language through an examination of
the formal properties of natural language,
grammar, and the process of acquisition.
Among the things that linguists study are
phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, and pragmatics.
 PYSCHOLOG
4 Y
Psychology delves deeper into the science of
mind and human behavior. It is a unique
amalgam of both theory and experiments and
is an intriguing discipline for those inclined
towards the intricate human mind and its
multifarious aspects. This includes the
physical and the mental state and how this all
relates to the environment of the individual.
 DEMOGRAPH
5 Y
Demography is the study of human
population. The discipline also studies
how people move from one place to
another. The main sources of data are
census and other vital statistics. Some
basic demographic concepts include
fertility, mortality, migration, and
population growth.
 ECONOMICS
6 Often termed as the study of choices and
optimum utilization of scarce resources,
Economics emphasizes on understanding the
way people spend and utilize their available
resources to satisfy their increasing demands.
Economics is all about distribution,
production and consumption of resources.
1. Microeconomics
2. Macroeconomics
 HISTORY
7 There is nothing more complex and broader for
research than the study of History. It straddles into
different territories of time and explores every aspect
of it, tries to reconstruct the past for understanding of
the present through various resources available. While
exploring the branches of social sciences, History is
an appealing one for those inclined towards the study
of renowned historical events and as you reach higher
levels of study, you’ll be presented with opportunities
to specialize in your own area of interest.
 POLITICAL
8 SCIENCE
As human civilization discerned the role of
government for the smooth functioning of
every society, Political Science emerged as a
significant field of study focusing on different
systems of governance as well as political
ideas and discourse.
 SOCIOLOGY
9 Sociology is somewhat of a similar
specialization to Social Sciences but skims down
its essential focus on different societies, their
origins and evolution since the ancient times. As
one of the popular branches of Social Sciences,
it covers societal constructs like religion, class,
caste as well as social mobility, to name a few
and further studies the role of an individual in
society at different levels and in terms of varied
 SOCIOLOGY
9 Sociology is somewhat of a similar
specialization to Social Sciences but skims down
its essential focus on different societies, their
origins and evolution since the ancient times. As
one of the popular branches of Social Sciences,
it covers societal constructs like religion, class,
caste as well as social mobility, to name a few
and further studies the role of an individual in
society at different levels and in terms of varied
 What is the importance of Social
Science?
Social Science is a vast discipline which aims to
discover the human society and its different
constructs and their connection with human
relationships. At the same time, it also carries
out extensive studies about the manner in which
people tend to organize, behave and affect
change in the world surrounding them.