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SOCIAL SCIENCES
Understanding the Domain of the
Social Sciences
N AT U R A L S C I E N C E S SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Attempts to • Attempts to discover and
understand explain the behavior and
nature’s attitudes of people.
phenomena by • Researches are leaning
on the qualitative side,
relying greatly on
considered a “soft
measurable data science”
obtained through • Society itself is the
scientific method. laboratory of the social
• Undertake scientist
controlled • Uncertainty of data or
experiments as output – affected by so
many factors at a
they validate their particular instance
working between the researcher
hypothesis. and the respondent such
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES VIS-À-VIS THE NATURAL
SCIENCES
N AT U R A L S C I E N C E S SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Experiments may be • Every social science
confined in rooms or research may be unique
laboratories under in itself that it cannot
strict conditions that be duplicated in other
can be repeated many societies for most of the
times. times. For example.
• A laboratory Standards of happiness
experiment in physics for Filipinos may be
done in France may entirely different with
those of the Bhutanese,
yield exactly the
Cambodians, Indians or
same result in
any other Asians for
Singapore.
that matter.
• Scientific outlook and
• Scientific outlook and
investigative spirit investigative spirit
IMPORTANCE OF THE SOCIAL
SCIENCES