UCSP

• UCSP

  Stands for: Natural Science, Social Science, Sociology
• Science


  Latin scire meaning "know", Latin Scientia meaning "Knowledge", Middle English Science meaning knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws, Something (such as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge
• Social Science


  A branch of discipline or branch of science that deals with human behavior in its social and cultural aspects
• Social Sciences

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology
  • Political science
  • Economics
  • Psychology
  • Geography
• Natural Science


  A branch of science that deals with the physical world, The branch of knowledge that deals with the study of the physical world
• Natural Sciences

  • physics
  • chemistry
  • geology
  • biology
• Social Science goes side by side with Natural Science as both branches of science. It is a branch of science that deals with the natural world: its processes, elements, and composition. However, social science is a branch of science primarily focuses on human society and social relationships.
• Positivism


  The use of scientific methods to present the laws in which societies and individuals interact would propel in a new "positivist" age of history
• Positivism


  • It allowed sociologists to study society scientifically through evidence, experiments, and statistics to clearly see the operations of the society
• Division of labor


  The separation and specialization of work among people
• Suicide could be attributed not only to the temperament of the individual, but also to social influences
• Rationalization


  The disenchantment of the world
• Bureaucracy


  An organization with formal procedures and standards; typically having a clear division of labor, explicit rules, and a hierarchy of authority
• Anthropology


  The systematic study of humanity, with the goal of understanding our evolutionary origins, our distinctiveness as a species, and the great diversity in our forms of social existence across the world and through time
• Ethnography


  Research method of long participant observation, Descriptive study of a particular human society, Contemporary ethnography: based almost entirely on fieldwork and requires the complete immersion of the anthropologist in the culture and everyday life of the people who are the subject of his study
• Subfields of Anthropology

  • Socio-cultural Anthropology
  • Biological Anthropology
  • Archeological Anthropology
• Socio-cultural Anthropology


  Studies the diversity of human societies in time and space, while looking for commonalities across them. It uses a holistic strategy—linking local and global, past, and present—to offer various approaches to understanding contemporary challenges
• Anthropologists conduct long term research in one or more communities, participate in daily activities while they observe and engage with community members, This approach and the knowledge it generate are intensely local, "on the ground" and "in the weeds" with the peoples it studies – yet synthesizing and critical of received canons and theories
• Biological Anthropology


  Study of human biological variation and evolution. Biological anthropologists seek to document and explain the patterning of biological variation among contemporary human populations, trace the evolution of our lineage through time in the fossil record, and provide a comparative perspective on human uniqueness by placing our species in the context of other living primates
• The discovery of a human third metatarsal from Callao Cave in northern Luzon. Direct dating of the specimen using U-series ablation has provided a minimum age estimate of 66.7 ± 1 ka (67,000), making it the oldest known human fossil in the Philippines
• Archaeological Anthropology


  The study of past humans and cultures through material remains. It involves the excavation, analysis and interpretation of artifacts, soils, and cultural processes
• The balangay was the first wooden boat that was excavated in Southeast Asia. These boats were instrumental in the settlement of Austronesian peoples in the Philippines and the Malay Archipelago. It was used for cargo and trading, in which Butuan, Agusan de Norte, Philippines was a central trading port. Today, the Balanghai Festival in Butuan is a celebration of the first people who settled in the Philippines
• Politics


  An activity that involves people's interaction, whose relationship is characterized by conflict and cooperation, and who come together to solve disagreements through binding solutions
• Three main traditions of defining politics

  • Politics as war
  • Politics as process
  • Politics as participation
• Politics as war


  Politics is a race for power among greedy individuals and groups. Power, in this tradition, is the most precious good to be acquired, for its acquisition is the answer to accumulating all other desirable goods, including wealth, prestige, and status
• The most popular election-related crime in the Philippines was the "Maguindanao Massacre in 2009' where 58 supporters of a local candidate were killed and buried using backhoe
• Politics as process


  Politics has been described as the procedures and processes by which offices, power, and goods are distributed as well as winners and losers are created
• Politics as participation


  In a democracy, sovereign power resides to the people. People decide on matters that affect their lives. Politics is the involvement of the people in decision-making
• Political Science


  The study of politics and power from domestic, international, and comparative perspectives. It entails understanding political ideas, ideologies, institutions, policies, processes, and behavior, as well as groups, classes, government, diplomacy, law, strategy, and war
• International Relations


  Attempts to explain the interactions of states in the global interstate system, and it also attempts to explain the interactions of others whose behavior originates within one country and is targeted toward members of other countries
• International Organizations


  • United Nations
  • ASEAN
  • NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
  • European Union
• United Nations


  An international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter
• ASEAN


  ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand
• Society


  A group of people involved with each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations
• Sociology


  The study of human social relationships and institutions. Field of Study: human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them
• Areas of Sociology

  • Social Organization
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Change
  • Population Studies
• Social Organization


  Involves the study of social groups, social institutions, social stratification and mobility, ethnic relations and bureaucracy
• Social Psychology


  The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, beliefs, intentions and goals are constructed within a social context by the actual or imagined interactions with others
• Social Change


  Refers to the ways in which a society (rather than an individual) develops over time to replace beliefs, attitudes and behavior with new norms and expectations
• Population Studies


  Field concerned with population size, composition, change, and quality as they influence the economic, political, and social systems, and vice versa