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• social sciences were the last to develop after the natural sciences
• socrates, plato, aristotle develop seperate field of knowledge (began in the modern period)
• dominance of religious worldview and authority
• pre modern- social thinkers employed experiences and personal observation
• study of society, culture, and politics were based on social and political philosophy

  • before the birth of modern social sciences in the west
• social and political philosophies

  • were informed by theological reasoning
  • grounded in revelation
  • based on the bible
• Science

  • based on empirical data, tested theories, and carefully contrived observations
  • seeks to discover truth about specific causes of events and happenings in the natural world
  • inductive
• Inductive Method

  • begin with specific observations and measures
  • detect patterns and regularities
  • formulate tentative hypothesis

  
• Deductive Method

  • top-down approach
• Anthropology

  • study of biological, cultural and social aspects of man
  • integrates elements from biological sciences and humanities
• Sociology

  • academic discipline that attempts to providedeeper assessment of individual and groupbehavior
  • defined by Anthony Giddens as “ thestudy of human social life, groups and society.
  • explainthe bases of social order and social change