• Why do we frequently take selfies or groufies?

• Why do you engage in social media interaction?

• Why is income inequality rising?
• Why and in what ways are family types changing?
• What is Crime?
• How is our relationship with work changing?
• What are health inequalities?
• What course you would like to take in college. What do
you think will be your future job or profession?
• a.) define Social Science as the study of
society
• b.) distinguish, Social Science and Natural
Science and Humanities
• c.) compare and contrast the various Social
Science discipline and their fields, meaning
and methods; focus, areas and main areas of
inquiry.
SOCIAL
• Relating to people or society in
• general; or relating to human
• society, the interaction of the
• individual and the group, or the
• welfare of human beings as
• members of society.
SCIENCE
• knowledge or a system of knowledge
covering general truths or the operation of general laws
especially as obtained and tested through scientific
method
• such knowledge or such a system of knowledge
concerned with the physical world and its phenomena.
• From Merriam Webster Dictionary
• Social Sciences – is a study of human society;
a particular area of study that relates to
human behavior and society; a branch of
science that deals with the institutions and
functioning of human society and with the
interpersonal relationships of individuals as
members of society.
• The fields of human knowledge that deal with all aspects of the
group life of human beings. They are closely related to humanities
(deals with literature, music, art, and philosophy) because both deal
with humans and their culture.
• Most concerned with those basic elements of culture that
determine the general patterns of human behavior.
• The Social Sciences are those disciplines that use research and
analysis to examine human behavior.
• They use such techniques as collecting and analyzing statistics,
conducting experiments, and examining what people have written
and created , in an attempt to understand why people act the way
they do.
• Social Science is the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the
recognition and formulation of a problem the collection of data
through observation and experiment and the formulation and
testing of hypotheses.
• Understanding societies
• Describing societies
• Analyzing societies
• Observing societies
• Understanding the social, cultural and economic
relationships between rthe units of society,
• Explaining the changes in societies
• Comparing societies
• The social sciences ask critical questions and
suggest evidence based answers.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
The field of human knowledge
that deals with all aspects of the
group life of human beings. So
it is subject to change with the
changes the human behavior.
NATURAL SCIENCES
Branch of science that seeks to
elucidate the rules that govern
the natural world by using the
Empirical and Scientific
method.
HUMANITIES
Academic disciplines that study
the human condition, using
methods that are primarily
analytical, critical, or
speculative.
Humanities are more on the
emotions and feeling
themselves than on the system
employed to sharpen that focus.
The humanities deal special
aspects of human culture and
primarily concerned with our
attempts to express spiritual
and aesthetic values and
discover the meaning of life.
SOCIAL SCIENCES NATURAL HUMANITIES
FIELDS: SCIENCES FIELDS: FIELDS:
1. Anthropology Ancient and Modern
2. Economics Physics Languages,
Visual and Performing
3. Geography Chemistry
Arts such as music
4. History Biology Theatre Arts.
5. Political Science Earth science Literature,
6. Psychology Astronomy Philosophy
7. Sociology Religion
MEANING
• is the study of relationship
between biological traits and
socially acquired
characteristics. Sometimes
called the study of human.
AREAS
• 1. Physical anthropology
• 2. Cultural anthropology
FOCUS
• Relationships among humans
and groups living together in
societies
MAIN AREAS OF INQUIRY
• What are the functions of
the various groups in
society and what factors do
people in these groups have
in common?
MEANING FOCUS
• is the study of the ways in • 1. Production
which men and women make a • 2. Distribution
living, the most pressing • 3. Consumption
problem most human beings
face.

AREAS MAIN AREAS OF INQUIRY

• 1. Supply and demand • Economics seeks to explain,

• 2. Monetary and fiscal policy guide and predict social
• 3. Costs arrangements by which we
• 4. Inflation satisfy economic wants.
• 5. Unemployment
MEANING
• is the study of the natural
environment and how it
influence social and cultural
development.
FOCUS
• The distribution of the features of the
physical environment and of the
people who use those features

AREAS MAIN AREAS OF INQUIRY

• Concerns of geography are: • How has society been
• 1. Ecology shaped by the use of the
• 2. Climate land and its resources?
• 3. Resources
4. Accessibility
5. Demography
MEANING FOCUS
• is the study of past events. It is a • Relationship of past events
social science in the sense that it and relate them to the
is a systematic attempt to learn
about and verify past events and present
relate them to one another and
to the present.

AREAS MAIN AREAS OF INQUIRY

• The study of history involves: • How has society been
• 1. Identifying shaped by past & present
• 2. Classifying events in history?
• 3. Arranging
MEANING
• is the study of social
arrangements to maintain
peace and order within a
given society. It deals with
government.
FOCUS
• The organizations people
have developed to make
rules and laws for their
society.

AREAS MAIN AREAS OF INQUIRY

• 1. Politics • How are people governed?
• 2. Laws
• 3. Administration
• 4.International Relations
• 5. Theory of the nature and functions
of the state
MEANING
• deals with the mind and
personality of the
individual. It is a social
science because humans
are social creatures.
AREAS
• Social Psychology
• 2. Clinical Psychology
• 3. Counseling Psychology
• 4. Educational Psychology
• 5. Industrial Organizational
Psychology
FOCUS
• The behavior and thought
processes of the individual,
and the ways in which an
individual acts and reacts
to other humans and to
society
MAIN AREAS OF INQUIRY
• What is going on inside a
person’s mind that causes
them to behave this way?
MEANING FOCUS
• is the systematic study of relationship • Relationships among
among people. Sociologists assume
that behavior is influenced by humans and groups living
people’s social, political, occupational together in societies
and intellectual groupings and by the
particular settings in which they find
themselves at one time or another.

AREAS MAIN AREAS OF INQUIRY

• 3 major choices: • What are the functions of
• 1. Functionalism the various groups in
society and what factors do
• 2. Conflict people in these groups
• 3. Interactionalism have in common?
• Social Science is the systematic pursuit of knowledge
involving the recognition and formulation of a problem the
collection of data through observation and experiment and
the formulation and testing of hypotheses. It helps us to
formulate answers to local and global problems. Social
Problems and Social Sciences connection should be a high
priority for all of us Social Scientists and citizens alike e.g.
Poverty & Economics, Mental Health & Psychology,
community development, like housing, public service and
health services. A key factor is social change, with the
charitable act adding sustainability and empowering
society. . With the help of Social Scientist in making a better
world for us to live in.