12 SOCIAL STUDIES DISCIPLINES Flashcards
This is traditionally distinguished from other disciplines by its emphasis on cultural relativity, in-depth examination of context, and cross-cultural comparisons.
Anthropology
It is the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains. These include human artifacts from the very earliest stone tools to the man-made objects that are buried or thrown away in the present day.
Archeology
According to Samuelson, this is the study of how people and society choose, with or without the use of money, to employ scarce productive resources which could have alternative uses, to produce various commodities over time and distribute them for consumption now and in the future among various persons and groups of society.
Economics
This is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
Geography
It is a discipline that studies chronological record of events based on a critical examination of source materials and usually presenting an explanation of their causes.
History
It is a discipline and profession that is concerned with the customs, practices, and rules of conduct of a community that are recognized as binding by the community.
Law
This is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
Philosophy
It is the systematic study of governance by the application of empirical and generally scientific methods of analysis. As traditionally defined and studied, this examines the state and its organs and institutions.
Political Science
This is the science of mind. Scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behavior in humans and other animals.
Psychology
It is a discipline by which people regard as holy, sacred, absolute, spiritual, divine, or worthy of especial reverence. It is also commonly regarded as consisting of the way people deal with ultimate concerns about their lives and their fate after death. In many traditions, this relation and these concerns are expressed in terms of one’s relationship with or attitude toward gods or spirits.
Religion
This is a social science that study human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserves and changes. It does this by examining the dynamics of constituent parts of societies such as institutions, communities, populations, and gender, racial, or age groups, social status or stratification, social movements, and social change, as well as societal disorder in the form of crime, deviance, and revolution.
Sociology
Those branches of knowledge that concern themselves with human beingsand theirculture or withanalyticand critical methods of inquiry derived from an appreciation of human values and of the unique ability of the human spirit to express itself.
Humanities
