DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES (DIASS)

CHAPTER I:

The SOCIAL SCIENCES are vast fields of scientific studies that investigate human societies and the different forces that work within them.
Focus:  Examine how people interact and develop culture
 Provide a diverse set of lens that help us understand and explain the different facets of human society

BRANCHES / DISCIPLINES MAIN CONCERN / FOCUS SUBFIELDS

ECONOMICS studies the allocation of scarce Understand and explain human  Environmental  Business Economics
resources and the production and exchange of activities in relation to the Economics  Monetary Economics
goods and services in society production, distribution and  Labor Economics
consumption of goods and services.
ANTHROPLOGY is the scientific study of Application of knowledge to help solve  Cultural Anthropology  Archaeology
humans and their cultures in the past and problems through the study of  Physical Anthropology  Anthropological
present time (preliterate and unindustrialized culture. Linguistics
societies).

HISTORY is systematic study of human past Focuses on the reconstruction and  Economic History  Business History
events in order to understand the meaning, recreation of past events as they  Social History  Biographies
dynamics and relationship of the causes and actually happened through the use of  Political History  History Of Medicine
effects of events in the development of the primary sources and secondary  Environmental History and Public Health
societies. sources.

POLITICAL SCIENCE primarily studies human Examines the relationship between  Domestic Politics  Political Theory
behavior in relation to political systems, people and policy at all levels from the  Comparative Politics  Public Administration
governments, laws and international relations. individual to the national and  International Relations  Public Law
international levels.
PSYCHOLOGY studies how the human mind Analyzes how people and groups  Experimental Psychology  Personality Psychology
works in consonance with the body to produce experience the world through various  Developmental  Environmental
thoughts that lead to individual actions. emotions, ideas and in different Psychology Psychology
conscious states.  Social Psychology
SOCIOLOGY is a systematic study of people’s Examines social structures, collective  Applied Sociology  Medical Sociology
behavior in groups; attempts to understand human actions, social relationships  Urban Sociology  Sociology Of Education
why and how people interact with each other and norms and its impact on individual  Cultural Sociology  Political Sociology
and how they function as a society or social behavior.  Rural Sociology  Military Sociology
subgroups.

GEOGRAPHY is the study of the interaction
between people and their environment.
DEMOGRAPHY is the scientific study of human
populations across time.
Explore both the physical properties  Physical Geography
of Earth’s surface and their  Human Geography
relationship with human societies.
Examines the changes in population  Population Studies Or
growth through the analysis of Social Demography
statistics on birth, human movement,
morbidity, agedness and mortality.

The APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES focus on the use and application of the different concepts, theoretical models and theories of the social science
disciplines to help understand society and the different problems and issues it faces.
Focus:  Multidisciplinary approach to the study of the different issues in society
 Utilized to provide alternative solutions to the diverse problems of society

BRANCHES / DISCIPLINES MAIN CONCERN / FOCUS PRACTITIONERS SUBFIELDS

COUNSELING provides guidance, help and Providing professional
support to individuals who are distraught by a guidance done by applying
diverse set of problems in their lives. psychological methods
(collection of case history
data, personal interviews and
aptitude tests).
SOCIAL WORK involves helping individuals, Involvement in advocacy
families, groups and communities to improve campaign and work,
their individual and collective well-being. counseling, issue and conflict
mediation and research.
COMMUNICATION STUDIES involves providing Deals with the processes of
adequate training for careers in the human communication and
communication industry, particularly in the behavior.
field of Mass Media.
Counseling can be done by  Career Counseling
guidance counselors, life  Personal Growth
coaches, career counselors and Counseling
personal growth counselors.
Social Workers play different
roles and duties in society. They
can also serve as educators,
case managers, facilitators and
agents of community change.
Communication practitioners  News And Current Affairs
are equipped with skills to  Entertainment Industry
write, produce and deliver news
accurately and creatively to the
viewing public.