Discipline and Ideas

in the Applied
Social Sciences
Course introduction
 Objectives:
 SJYS
 SD
 AS
 ADS
Course introduction
 Socialsciences pertain to a major
category of academic discipline that
deals with the study of particular
aspects of human society and
organization, social relationships, and
individual human behavior and action.
Course introduction
 SOCIAL SCIENCE originally referred to the
specific field of sociology (the study of society).
 encompass disciplines that may be classified
under the humanities.
 Are disciplines concerned with the systematic
study of social phenomena
Main disciplines that fall under social
sciences
 Economics is a social science concerned with the
production, distribution, and consumption of goods and
services. (needs and wants of human)
 Political Science examines the government. Its about
the analysis of the different political systems
 Geography the study of places and the relationships
between people and their environments
 Sociology is the study of human social relationships and
institution.
Main disciplines that fall under
social sciences
 Anthropology the study of what makes us human. The origin of man or
the evolution of man from the very beginning.
 History discipline that studies the chronological records of events (as
affecting a nation or people), based on a critical examination of source
materials and usually presenting an explanation of their causes.
 Psychology study of the mind and behavior.
 Demography the study of population based on factors such as age, race
and sex. (fertility, mortality, and the migration rate)
 Linguistics the scientific study of language and its structure. It involves
analyzing language form, language meaning and language in context.
“Social” and the “Science”

 TermSocial means that the discipline deals with people,

communities, and experiences that define human existence.
 Science means the process of human inquiry, like other disciplines
in the collective universe of human knowledge, is conducted in a
systematic way and follows a process developed from the scientific
tradition.
 Socialscience research describes the world by gathering and using
evidence, data, theories, explanations, norms and values, and it
make sense of then through interpretation, analysis, and
explanation.
Applied Social Sciences
 The application of social science
theories, concepts, methods, and
findings to problems identified in the
wider society. (D.Jary & J. Jary 2000)
Disciplines under Applied Social
Science

Counseling provides
Social Work
Communication
Disciplines under Applied Social
Science
 Counseling  Social Work  Communication
Provides healing, It focuses on social Focuses on how
courage and change, problem- human use verbal
strength for an solving in human and nonverbal
individual to face relationships and messages to create
his/her issues and the empowerments meaning in various
take up the best and liberation of contexts across
possible option in people to enhance cultures using a
moments of life social justice. variety of channels
crises and media
Social Science & Applied Social Science

 Social Science  Applied Social Science

Social phenomena Distinct Issue