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LESSON 2: EMERGENCE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
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Introduce the disciplines within social sciences
Define different disciplines within social sciences
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What are the disciplines within social  Explain the major events and its contribution that led to the
Social sciences? emergence of the social science disciplines
How did these disciplines emerge? Note: Please use another paper for your answers. Do not write anything on the
module.
Why are these disciplines important?

ACTIVITY 1: STARTER ACTIVITY Day 1

REVIEW: Identify if the word is related to social science or natural science. Write SS if it is related to social science
and NS if natural science.
_____1. Biology _____6. Physics
_____2. History _____7. Chemistry
_____3. Economics _____8. Zoology
_____4. Anthropology _____9. Mathematics
_____5. Psychology _____10. Political Science

ACTIVITY 2: CROSSWORD PUZZLE

1 HINTS!
1 ACROSS
1. study of human beings
6 2. the branch of knowledge that deals with systems
3 5 of government
2 3. systematic or scientific study of the society
DOWN
1. interprets that the past is part and parcel of
4 present events
2. scientific study of human mind
3. the scientific study of language
4. deals with the environment or the location of the
people
5. comes from the Greek word “oikonomia”
6. deals with population

ACTIVITY 3: CONCEPT LEARNING

Read the short discussion below and make your own umbrella diagram using the words you answered on the
crossword activity. Also, based on your understanding in the discussion.

LET’S READ!
SOCIAL SCIENCE
The term social science is a body of knowledge characterized by an objective to
understand what society is and what does it do to people living inside it. This is a
group of rather independent disciplines – with its own respective philosophies,
intellectual histories, and research methodologies – but are fundamentally bound
together because they deal after all with the same entity that is called “society”.

Wow! You are done with Day 1.

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LET’S LEARN!

DISCIPLINES WITHIN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Social science disciplines post different questions, but they actually observe a common social phenomenon --- everyday life events and activities
that involve people in affect people living together in a particular society. since there are two elements constituting social science, one is society
(hence, social) and the answer is empirical analysis (hence, science), the study and understanding of social phenomena presuppose or require an
assumption that there is a reality out there that must be understood; that the means through which they must be understood or comprehend
dead by humans is through a thorough observation an critical analysis of facts, evidence, end conditions found among the people living in a
particular society. The aim of every social science is to characterize the nature of being human. However, they approach this problem in a
somewhat limited manner focusing and privileging one factor over the other as the prime motivator of human existence.

Anthropology deals with the nature of human beings, bullets from a biological and cultural point of view. for anthropologists’ culture is a key
factor that shapes human nature and that this culture is conditions by both natural and social environments.

Sociology, a close relative of anthropology, deals with how people behave and interact with one another as a member of a particular social
group. It focuses on structures that underlies society itself and theorizes about the processes in which people are socialized in the world in
which they live. it is important for sociologists and anthropologists to know who these people are, male or female, natives, or foreigners, young
or old, etc., --In order to capture the nuanced nature of human relations.

Demography, meanwhile, deals with population as a unit of analysis. demographic processes such as birth migration and aging are investigated
because they impact on how society changes across a period.

Economics, thought at times separated from the other social Sciences due to its emphasis on quantitative analysis and mathematical equations
as representations of social behavior, focuses on markets, wealth, and resources that people construct and make use of in order to live, given
the limited resources, economists study how this resources are allocated among the people and how they affect the material condition of
society.

Geography, on one hand, insists that it is the environment or the location of the people --a condition that exists outside of people--that
ultimately conditions the way people will behave in a society. The proximity to certain geographic locations determines the kind of society that
will be formed or created over a period.

Other disciplines such as psychology, linguistics, history, anthropology, and sociology maintained that people do shape nature or the
environment; Humans transform the natural environment in order to create an artificial or created world known as towns, cities, or
communities. psychology pushes the discussion further by asserting that what is going on within the individual mind or the psyche--one's
feelings, joys, fears, worries, triumphs, and struggles ---thus shape the way he or she views society and thus impacts on his or her relationship
with people and the environment. History, meanwhile, interprets that the past is part and parcel of the present as events that happened in the
past shape the way people make their decisions in the present. Language, a product of human race’s biological and cultural heritage, is an
invention by people yet they themselves are shaped by it.

But who puts all these aspects together in a coherent social organization? political science believes that it is politics or the political realm that
captures human life. social science, for all intents and purposes, is as much a collective and coherent framework of social inquiry as it is diverse
field of intellectual study. We only must appreciate its value as a potent tool of both understanding and transforming human condition in this
world. social science is interested in telling us what it means to be human.

History of the Emergence of Social Sciences

Albeit debatable, SS’s birth was made possible by the important revolutions (See Giddens, 1976; Seidman, 1994)

 Scientific revolution
 Industrial revolution
 French Revolution
Note: Please visit this link https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/40587/8/10_chapter1.pdf for more readings about this.

ACTIVITY 4: RESEARCH TIME!

Look for the definition and write its function in social science.
1. Branches of Anthropology ( a. Physical, b. Cultural, c. Archeology)
2. Branches of Economics ( a. Microeconomics and b. Macroeconomics)
3. Kinds of Geography ( a. Physical and b. Human)
4. Linguistics ( a. Morphology, b. Syntax, and c. Phonology)
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ACTIVITY 5: LET’S PLAY

Connect the specific concepts and ideas normally tackled in the various disciplines of social science. How do they
all interact and link to each other? Knowing that there are various social science disciplines, where do disciplinal
lines end and begin? Can you think of a central theme from which all social sciences could emerge? Is a unified
social science even possible?

Self Structure Language Culture

Gender Social Memory Identity Health and Well-Being Ethnicity
Children Community Capital Sex State Power
Nation Dialect Heritage Property The World Rights
Democracy Violence Family Household City

You can develop your own model or image, say a circle, web, boxes linked to each other, and many others, they
you think could best represent how social sciences approach the same problem in different angles and using
different perspectives. Do this in another sheet of blank paper.

ACTIVITY 6: KNOWING THE ROOTS!

Match each Social Science to its correct etymologies. Write the correct letter of your answer.

____ 1. Anthropology A. oikonomia

____ 2. Demography B. geo & graphein
____ 3. Economics C. histoire
____ 4. Geography D. psyche and logos
____ 5. Linguistics E. socius and logos
____ 6. History F. anthropos and logos
____ 7. Political Science G. demos and graphein
____ 8. Psychology H. lingua
____ 9. Sociology I. politika

Activity 7: Write & Explain

Explain the major events and its contribution to the emergence of social science disciplines. You may include significant
persons during this events and their roles.

FRENCH REVOLUTION INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

ACTIVITY 8: CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES

Complete the table about the Social Science Disciplines. Words, phrases or short sentences may be used to describe the
applicable answers. ( Copy this table and write on a separate paper)

Basic Definition Unit of analysis Important

Assumptions
Anthropology
Archeology
Economics
Geography
History
Pol. Science
Psychology
Sociology Society, social interaction & Interactions, social The context is society. The world is a social
(sample) relationship structures and systems, construction

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ACTIVITY 9: LET’S THINK!

Fantastic! You are finish with Day 4!
Day 4
Answer the each questions in not less than 50 words. (20 pts each)

1. Among all the disciplines of Social Science, what do you think would be the most useful discipline?
2. Imagine Life without language, leaders, laws, family.

ACTIVITY 10: LESSON REFLECTION

I have learned that __________________________________________________________________________

I understand that __________________________________________________________________
I realized that _____________________________________________________________________

ASSESSMENT

I. Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer on the blank.

______ 1. This is the individual mind.
A. anthropos B. psyche C. demos D. lingua
______2. Demographic process these things EXCEPT one.
A. markets B. birth migration C. aging D. population
______3. Seek to understand people’s activities concerning production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
A. Sociology B. Geography C. Demography D. Economics
______4. Examines where and how groups of people live and what adaptations they usually undertake in order to subsist in
certain regions of the earth.
A. Sociology B. Geography C. Demography D. Economics
______5. Field of knowledge involving the scientific study of language as a universal and recognizable aspect of human
behavior and capacity.
A. Psychology B. Geography C. Linguistics D. Economics
______6. Include the study of governments, and the need for the institution, its form, and processes .
A. Economics B. Anthropology C. Sociology D. Political Science
______7. Social actors, and active, mindful, and conscious decision makers.
A. Culture B. Individual C. Action D. Discipline
______8. Study of sounds of language.
A. Syntax B. Morphology C. Phonology D. Music
______9. This entity bound the social science disciplines.
A. spirit B. love C. tradition D. society
______10.  Historical social impact of this is increase in wealth, the production of goods, and the standard of living.
A. French revolution B. Industrial Revolution C. Scientific Revolution D. Civil War

II. Essay. (5 pts)

11- 15. Among all the disciplines of Social Science, what do you think would be the most useful discipline? Why?
16 – 20. What is the significance of studying Social Science?

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REFERENCES:
Tatel, Calos Pena, Discipline and Ideas in the Social Sciences,REX Publishing, 2016

Please do advance reading on Social Science theories.

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