Introduction & Disciplines of Social Sciences

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    • Social Sciences
      Study and explain human relations
    • Branches of Human Knowledge
      • Natural Sciences
      • Social Sciences
      • Humanities
      • Applied Professions
    • Natural Sciences
      • Explain the physical world
      • Use fields like physics, chemistry, biology
    • Social Sciences
      • Study and explain human relations
      • Use fields like anthropology, sociology, economics
    • Humanities
      • Humanize humans through expression of oneself
      • Use fields like music, literature
    • Applied Professions
      • Concerned with the application of theories
    • It is inherent for people to bond and socialize with one another
    • Social Sciences
      Scientific study of the society people live in
    • Social Sciences utilize scientific methods and inquiry in understanding and explaining the world
    • Social Sciences try to discover and explore human behaviors and study human relations to other humans, environment, and society
    • Natural Sciences
      Scientifically explain the natural world
    • Social Sciences
      Use more qualitative methods compared to the quantitative methods of Natural Sciences
    • Neither Natural Sciences nor Social Sciences are superior to one another
    • Natural Sciences study the physical world but Social Sciences see the connection between the world and humans
    • An example is natural scientists studying global warming and needing social scientists to explore how it affects human lives
    • Anthropology
      Study of humans
    • Physical/Biological Anthropology
      • Focuses on human biology and evolutionary studies
      • Includes paleoanthropology, genetics, primatology, osteology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology
    • Cultural/Social Anthropology
      • Concerned with the study and comparative study of preliterate societies, including all aspects of human behavior
      • Employs ethnography as a means to study and record the different ways of life of human societies
    • Archaeology
      • Study of culture of the past, especially in prehistory, through retrieving and examining the material remains of the ancient human societies
    • Linguistic Anthropology
      • Study of human speech and language and its development throughout history
    • Economics
      Discipline that concentrates on how a particular society solves its problem of scarcity of resources
    • Microeconomics
      • Focused on economic behavior of much smaller units (individuals, etc.)
    • Macroeconomics
      • Focused on economic behavior of much larger units (corporations, geography, etc.)
    • Geography
      Study of the physical features of the earth and human activities
    • Physical Geography
      • Talks about the physical features of the earth
    • Human Geography
      • Focuses on the human aspect of geography - humans and their culture, and how humans change their environment
    • History
      Branch of knowledge that attempts to ascertain, record, and explain facts and events that happened in the past
    • There is a long standing debate if history is an art or science
    • History
      A branch of knowledge that attempts to ascertain, record, and explain facts and events that happened in the past
    • History originated from the Greek word historia meaning "inquiry"
    • History is one of the oldest social sciences tracing its origin in the myths and traditions of early people that were passed from generations
    • Historians may need to work hand in hand with archaeologists, anthropologists, and linguists in order to reconstruct the past
    • There is a long standing debate if history is an art or science
      Greek writers may have treated history as an art in their ancient works but quite a number of historians also tried to be scientific in their methods of writing historical accounts of historiography
    • Historians have applied similar techniques employed in natural science like data gathering and validation of hypotheses, while narrating stories in accurate and clear manner
    • Herodotus and Thucydides
      Forerunners of the discipline of history
    • Linguistics
      A field of knowledge involving the scientific study of language as a universal and recognizable aspect of human behavior and capacity
    • Linguistics branches
      • Theoretical Linguistics
      • Applied Linguistics
    • Theoretical Linguistics
      • Phonology
      • Morphology
      • Phonetics
      • Syntax
      • Semantics
    • Applied Linguistics
      • Sociolinguistics
      • Psycholinguistics
      • Historical linguistics
    • Political Science
      A relatively recent academic discipline compared to other branches of knowledge despite the fact that politics is probably as old as the appearance of human polity in the ancient past