Unit I

Chapter 1
 It includes the following questions:
• How did the Social Science
emerge? How does it link to the
natural sciences?
• What is modernity? What was
its role in the developmental of
Social Science?
• What is the “Science and
Social” behind the study of
Society?
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1.a How did the Social Science emerge?

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 WHAT COMPRISES
SOCIETY?
Perhaps one of the most
important and earliest depictions of
Philippine social life depicted in
popular art is Kenkoy by Tony
Velasquez. This character both typifies
and critiques the image of the
colonized Filipino during the American
colonial regime.
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 WHAT COMPRISES
SOCIETY?
Meanwhile in the 1950s,
Larry Alcala started Sliced of life and
featured vignettes about Filipino life
and society.

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Major developments of the 19th century
■ Economics
■ Political science
■ History
Herodotus - “ Father of History”
Aristotle – “ Father of Political Science
■ Ancient Greece, Rome and India
■ 17th and 18th centuries the processes of Renaissance and Enlightment Era

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1.b How does it link to the Natural Sciences?

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 Natural science
-Life Science
-Physical Science

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 9 Social Science Natural Science

Link

Political Geography History Archaeology Economic

Science
2.a What is Modernity?
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 Modernity y
-concept that deals with
the mental and behavioral shifts
among people
-used to describe different
periods of history and aspects of
life.
-rise both to the kinds of
societies or social relations
-denote different historical
periods and phenomena

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Theories of Modernity play important roles in
Sociology

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 Theories of Modernity play important roles in
Sociology
• known as classical sociological theories of the concept
• coming from Max Weber and George Simmel
• identify it with the meaning and significance of the social changes in nineteenth-century
Europe

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 Why Modernity is important to Sociologists
○ it holds that everything about the world (including society and all its aspects) is
open to question.

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 Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
-a founder of a new form of
political science indicates the significance
of this vision for the social sciences.
-"new modes and orders"
-late Latin: moder-nus,
-derivative classical Latin: modo
* "just now" or "in a certain manner”*
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Diverse ways by other founders of Modernity

Francis Bacon Galileo Galilei Rene Descartes

(1561-1626) (1564-1642) (1596-1650)

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2.b What was its role in the development of Social Science?

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 The disciplines of social science improve because
of modernity and development
Example:

Psychology, the psychiatrist

• prioritizes mental health awareness

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3A. WHAT IS THE “SCIENCE AND SOCIAL” BEHIND THE
STUDY OF SOCIETY?

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 Social Science

At a minimum it would appear that to be

"scientific" entails a systematic and disciplined
method of acquiring knowledge, and that
knowledge must be verifiable knowledge. 20
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social
relationships

to scientific study
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