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9 Disciplines of Social Sciences

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  1. Geography
  2. Demography
  3. History
  4. Anthropology
  5. Sociology
  6. Pol-Sci
  7. Economics
  8. Psychology
  9. Linguistics
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are also called soft science

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social studies

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What is anthropology?

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  • Study of people

* Study of biological, cultural, and social aspects of man.

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Who is the father of Anthropology?

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Franz Boas, a German American anthropologist who was first to apply scientific method to anthropology.

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What is ethnography?

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A long term participant observation.

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a British social anthropologist who studied the people in Trobriand Islands from 1915-1918

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Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski

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Branches of Anthropology

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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Physical and Biological Anthropology
  • Linguistics and Anthropology
  • Archeology Anthropology
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What is sociology?

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Systematic study of society and of how we form society

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the Father of sociology who coined the term sociology

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Auguste Comte

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3 Stages of Society

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  1. Theological stage
  2. Metaphysical stage
  3. Scientific or positivist change
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2 Branches of Sociology?

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  1. General sociology
    - Properties common to all social and cultural phenomena.
  2. Special Sociology
    - Focuses on a specific socio-cultural phenomenon such as socialization, interaction.
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What is Political Science

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• Study of state and government

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Branches of Pol-Sci

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  1. Public Administration
  2. Comparative politics
  3. Political economy
  4. Political theory
  5. Public Law
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Sum of individuals and society’s way of life

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Culture

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Sum of individuals and society’s way of life

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Culture

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what is culture?

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  • Culture is an elaborate system of standardized expected ways of feeling and acting in a society
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2 Primary Categories of Culture

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Material and Non-material culture

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The 4 Vital Elements of Culture

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Symbols, Languages, Values, and Norms

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Meaning of folkway

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proper way of living everyday. Can be followed, and if not, it doesn’t have serious consequences

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Definition of Mores

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moral connotation

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Taboos definition

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what is considered unfit in the society

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codified ethics, formally agreed, legally written down,, enacted and implemented and is applicable generally.

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Ethnocentrism

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thinking that one’s culture is the standard or superior to other cultures.

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Xenocentrism

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thinking that one’s culture is inferior to others. That foreigns are better than our own.

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• Cultural Relativism
-consider culture as equal. That a culture should be understood on its own terms without the use of other culture’s standards.
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What is society
• Group of people living together in an organized community
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Types of society and their meanings
1. Hunting and gathering – first, oldest, and simplest form. 2. Horticultural – relied on the cultivation of plants. Semisedentary 3. Pastoral – animal domestication 4. Agricultural – use technology to cultivate crops 5. Industrial – new resources are harnessed, advanced forms of technology, and machineries were invented. 6. Post- Industrial – the use and application of new information and technology and services rather than factories.
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- An abstract proposition that explains the social world and make predictions about the future events.
Theory
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Definition of Structural Functionalist Theory
sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity, stability, harmony, and social order.
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composed of different groups that are socially stratified that compete for limited sources resources
Conflict Theory
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society is composed of people interacting using symbols
Symbolic Interactionist Theory
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aims to eliminate gender inequality
Feminist Theory
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aims to understand human behavior by making conscious the unconscious
Psychoanalysis Theory
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– assumes society is made up of individuals who makes logical decisions that provide them the greatest benefit at the lowest cost
Rational Choice Theory
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– assumes society is made up of individuals who makes logical decisions that provide them the greatest benefit at the lowest cost
Rational Choice Theory
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Views society as made up of individuals who are influenced by institution created by humans
Institutionalist Theory
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Historical phenomena are interpreted differently in proper
Hermeneutical Phenomenology
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Aims to promote sustainability by understanding how human and environment systems interact
Human-Environment System
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Evolution
- It is a kind of change that happens through a long period of time
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- It is a natural process of biological changes occurring in a population across successive generations.
Human Evolution
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2 kinds of human evolution
Microevolution and Macroevolution
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2 kinds of human evolution
Microevolution and Macroevolution
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- It refers to the changes, modifications, and variations in the genetics and inherited traits of biological populations from one generation to another
Biological Evolution
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- It refers to the kind of changes that occur within a cultural tradition and way of life that leads to its development and progress
• Cultural Evolution
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- It refers to the kind of changes that occur within a cultural tradition and way of life that leads to its development and progress
• Cultural Evolution
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- It is the area of evolutionary biology that studies how social interactions, especially between individuals of the same species arise, change, and maintained
Social Evolution
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- group of early humans and other humanlike creatures that can walk erect during the prehistoric times
• HOMINID
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were the first to develop and use oral language because they have more developed brains and speech organs
HOMO SAPIENS

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