WHOSE EGGS

ARE THESE?
NAME IT!
 BANGKOK, THAILAND (1959)

Where was the

first SEA Games
held?
 WILLIAM G. MORGAN

He started
volleyball.
 JAMES NAISMITH

He started
basketball.
 EPIC OF GILGAMESH

It is the oldest
surviving poem.
 MESOPOTAMIA

Where did they

find the oldest
surviving poem?
 SCIENTIA (LATIN)

Where did the

word “science”
come from?
 SAINT NICHOLAS

Who is the basis of the

Christmas character,
Santa Claus?
ORIGIN
 HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND OF SOCIAL
STUDIES
 FOCUS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Change in human relationship and reinterpretation
between past and present events
• Human activities and spatial distributions an interaction
of culture, biological and physical elements
• Basic social systems, institutions and recesses
• Relationships between individual and institution; and
among political economic and social institutions
• The nature of societies and authors; and the interactions
of people with each other and also their social and
physical environment
WHERE DID SOCIAL
SCIENCE START?
 EARLY DEVELOPMENT

•GREEK
•Herodotus (C.484-425 BC)
•Father of History
•rational,humanistic,
scientific approach in study
•Thucydides (460-396 BC)
•Father of Scientific History
•He wrote history based on
witness report and
interviews.
•Plato (4427-347 BC)
•systematically and critically
examine issues in Philosophical
study
•Polybius (c.200-c.118)
•Historian of Historian
•“Truth” is the eye of
history
•ROMANS
•adapted narrrative, utilitarian,
pragmatical method in historical
study
•believed in substantialism
 MEDIEVAL PERIOD

•St. Agustine (354-430 AD)

• Early Christian Philosopher and
Theologian
• conducted Historical study based
on Intuition and revolution
 AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

• intellectual and philosophical

movement that dominated the world
of ideas
• emphasize reason, individualism,
skepticism and science and science
 FRANCIS BACON
•Father of Empiricist
 RENE DESCARTES

• considered as the first modern

philosopher
• Meditations on First Philosophy
 IMMANUEL KANT

•Transcendental Idealism
•Set terms for much of the 19th
and 20th philosophy
 JOHN LOCKE

•Father of Liberalism
 VOLTAIRE

•Francois-Maire d’ Arouet
•Social History through plays,
novellas and short stories
 JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

•Social Contract
•“man is born free but he is
everywhere in chains”