DISCIPPLINES OR

BRANCHES IN THE SOCIAL

SCIENCES
Social Science
 studies the historical, cultural,
sociological, psychological, and
the political forces that shape the
actions of individuals and their
impact on society.

2
Branches or Disciplines in the
Social Science
• came from the Greek word anthropos
meaning “humankind” and logos
meaning the “study” (Bonstingl 1996,
206)
• It is the study of ancient societies and
their cultural traditions.
• Anthropologists investigate the people’s
language, values, technologies, and
even how they group themselves.

1. ANTHROPOLOGY
3
 FIELDS OF
ANTHROPOLGY:
1.1 PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY or BIOLOGICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
• studies the biological evolution of man
• provides explanations on the reason behind
the biological variations among
contemporary human population.
 FIELDS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY:
1.2 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
 investigates and seeks to understand
the cultural features of societies.
 studies aspects of human culture such
as religion, ritual, myth, technology,
gender roles, kinship forms, economic
and political structures, music, and
folklore.
 SUB BRANCHES OF
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
1. Archaeology - seeks to reconstruct the past life of

“
ancient societies, trace the cultural changes that took
place and the reason behind the changes through
artifacts and other material remains.
2. Anthropological linguistics– involves the study of
language in societies (written or unwritten), trace the
cultural changes that took place and the reason
behind changes.
6
SUB BRANCHES OF
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY:

3. Ethnology
“
studies marriage customs,
kinship pattern
uses data gathered through
observations and interviews
7
SUB BRANCHES OF
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY:

3. Ethnology
“
 employs ethnography – a description
of a society’s customary behaviors or
art of collecting cultural data about
particular cultures, generally through
the process of “fieldwork,” 8
Activity 1: Analyzing Culture
Put yourself in the shoes of anthropologist.
Examine the photographs of artifacts and other
pieces of evidence in order to try to understand
culture . Make a detailed description of the of the
two cultures based on your interpretation of the
artifacts.

9
 Culture 2: Ancient Egypt

Culture I: Ancient India 10

 “

What is your idea about the pictures?

Branches or Disciplines in the
Social Sciences: 2. ECONOMICS

• originated from Greek words oikos meaning

“house” and nomos meaning “management”
• The term oikonomia literally translates as
“management of a household.”
• The study of the efficient allocation of scarce
resources in order to satisfy unlimited human
needs and wants.
12
 ECONOMIC GROWTH
PRICE –LEVEL
STABILITY
ECONOMIC FREEDOM

“ ECONOMIC GROWTH
WORK EFFICIENCY

ECONOMIC
EFFICIENCY
EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION
OF INCOME
ECONOMIC
SECURITY

BALANCE OF TRADE
13
BRANCHES OF
ECONOMICS
A. Macroeconomics
 analyses how the economy functions as a
whole or its basic subdivisions (government or
business sectors)
 examines the behaviour of entire economies
(Pennington 1999, 3)

14
BRANCHES OF
ECONOMICS
A. Macroeconomics

 tackles the aggregates or total values

that describe the whole economy such as
GDP, Employment, Growth Rate, Inflation,
and Interest Rates (Ayers and Collinge
2004, 4)
15
BRANCHES OF
ECONOMICS
B. Microeconomics

 focus on the behaviour of individual

agents
 evaluate how prices of goods and
services are usually pegged and what
factors determine the value of land, labor,
and capital 16
Branches or Disciplines in the
Social Sciences:
3. Geography
 derived from the Greek word geo meaning “earth” and graphe
meaning “to describe”
 geographia (to describe the earth)
 is the study of the features of the earth and the location of living
things on the planet.
 Geographers examine where and how groups of people live and
what adaptations they usually undertake in order to subsist in
certain regions of the earth.
 Interactions of People Carry water in desert or
G w/ Environment wear layers of ice

E Relative
Is it near?

O T Absolute
Longitude & Latitude
(Coordinates on a map)
G H Small, hilly, temperate,
Physical
5 R E Characteristics desert, mountainous, etc.
Educated,
A M Human
uneducated, farmers
Characteristics
P E Hemispheres, money,
Areas w/ Similar religion, language, etc.
H S Characteristics
Immigrant population have
Y Movement &
impact on native populations

Interaction of People “Brain Drain” it too many

18
people leave an area
Branches of Geography
Physical Geography
 It is geography from perspective of earth
sciences and as a branch of the natural
sciences
 It includes the study of soil, landforms,
water, vegetation, minerals, and climate.
 Geographers study various phenomena
found among the different spheres of the
earth and also interested in the interplay of
humans and the natural environment.
19
 Branches of Geography
Human Geography
 focuses on the human aspect of
geography that is marked by a strong
commitment to the concept of culture
 interested in determining humankind’s
role in changing the environment as
well as the different processes that help
shape human society, including
migration and settlement patterns.
20
Branches or Disciplines in the
Social Sciences:
4. HISTORY
 Originated from the Greek word historia
meaning “inquiry”.
 A branch of knowledge that attempts to
ascertain, record, and explain facts and
events that happened in the past.
 Historians unfold, discover, and interpret
human thoughts and actions that are ever
changing while relying mostly on written
accounts that may incompletely survived
from the past. 21
 Branches of History:
BRANCH THEME SAMPLE WORK

experiences of common Crime, Society, and the State in

Social History people the Nineteenth Century
Philippines (Greg Bankoff,
Ateneo de Manila Press, 1996))
Balatik: Etnoastronomiya
customs, arts, traditions Kalangitan sa Kabihasnang
Cultural History
Pilipino (Dante L. Ambrosio, U.P.
Press, 2010)
Political ideas, events, Ilustrado Politics: Filipino Elite
movements, parties, Rsponses to American Rule,
Political History
leaders, 1898-1908 (Michael Cullinane,
Ateneo de Manila Press, 2003) 22
 Branches of History:
BRANCH THEME
Economic occurences,
Economics History way of living, distribution
of goods
Military History Military affairs,strategies,
doctrine, armed conflict
International relations
Diplomatic History between states
SAMPLE WORK
The Tobacco Monopoly in the
Philippines: Bureaucratic Enterprise
and Social Change, 1766-1880 (Ed C.
de Jesus, Ateeneo de Manila
University Press, 1980)
The Filipino-American War 1899-1913
(by Samuel K. Tan, University of the
Philippines Press, 2002)
The United States and the Philippines:
A Study of Neocolonialism (Stephen
Roskamm Shalom, New Day
Publishers, 1986)
 Branches of History:
BRANCH THEME SAMPLE WORK

Religious experiences Beginnings of the Filipino Dominicans

History of Religion and ideas (Rolando V. de la Rosa, UST Publishing
House, 1990)

Working Women of Manila in the 19th

History of Women Women’s role in society Century (Ma. Luisa Camagay, University
of the Philippines Press, 1995)

Nature and the Orient: The

Environmental Human interaction with Environmental History of South and
History nature and environment Southeast (Richard H. Grove, Vinita
Damodaran, Satpal Sangwan, eds.
Oxford University Press, 1998)
Branches or Disciplines in the
Social Sciences: Lorem
ipsum

5. LINGUISTICS
A field of knowledge involving the
scientific study of language as a
universal and universal and
recognizable aspect of human
behavior and capacity.
Study changes that have taken place
on various languages over time as
well as their modern variations
Broad field of Language:
Morphology
The study of language form

Syntax
The study on how words are
formed
Phonology
The study of sounds of language
Branches of Linguistics:
BRANCHES AREAS OF INTEREST

General Linguistics Concepts and categories of

language or languages , theory
of language
Micro Linguistics Structure of language systems
1. Phonetics
2. Phonology
3. Morphology
4. Syntax
5. Semantics
Branches of Linguistics:
BRANCHES AREAS OF INTEREST

Macro Linguistics External view of language

1. Stylistics
2. Developmental Linguistics
3. Historical Linguistics
4. Language Geography
5. Psycholinguistics
6. Sociolinguistics
7. Clinical Linguistics
Branches or Disciplines in the
Social Sciences:
6. Political Science
 The study of governments, and the
need for the institution, its form, and its
processes.
 Deals with the theory and practice of
politics, including analysis on public
policies 29
Political Science
key Concept:
 State
 Politics
 Power
 Processes

30
BranchesMaps
or Disciplines in the
Social Sciences:
7. Sociology
our office

 Derived from the Latin word socius meaning

“companion” and from the Greek word logos
meaning “study of.”
 A field of study dealing with the systematic study
of patterns of human interaction.
 The science of society

31
Branches of Sociology:
Maps

General Sociology
Deals with the properties and
our office

homogeneity common to all social and

cultural phenomena, including those
characteristics found among groups and
institutions

32
Branches of Sociology:
Maps

Special Sociology
 Focuses on specific sociocultural
our office

phenomenon usually selected for further

study, including socialization, interaction,
conflict, and domination.

33
 Branches or Disciplines in the Social
Sciences:
 Comes from two Greek words psyche
meaning “soul” or “spirit” and logos, 8.
means study.
FIELDS OF PSYCHOLOGY:
PSYCHOLOGY
1. Clinical Psychology – assesses and finds
treatment for people with psychological
disorders.
2. Developmental Psychology – studies the
intellectual, social, emotional, and moral
development across a lifespan.
3. Experimental Psychology – studies the most
basic concepts of psychology like cognition,
perception, memory, and learning but mostly
conducted in animals instead of humans.
Branches or Disciplines in the Social
Sciences:
PSYCHOLOGY

Wilhelm Wundt – is considered as

the Father of Modern Psychology
Branches of Sociology:
9. DEMOGRAPHY

• comes from two Greek words

demos meaning “people” and
graphos meaning “charting or
mapping”
• It studies how people move from
place to place.
36
Branches of Sociology:
DEMOGRAPHY

BASIC CONCEPTS:
 fertility
 mortality
 migration
 population growth

37
 Branches of Sociology:
DEMOGRAPHY
Pioneers of the discipline:

Kautilya
Ibn Khal dun
• an Indian scholar
• an Arab Historian
who commented
who contented that
that large population
a dense population
is a source of
growth is generally
military, political,
favourable to the
and economic
maintenance and
power.
increase of power
 Branches of Sociology:
DEMOGRAPHY
Pioneers of the discipline:

Edmond Halley Thomas Malthus

• The first scientist to
study a person’s • An economist
likelihood of death who believed
as he or she passes that population
through different age
groups using death grow in a
statistics. geometric
progression.
Our process
is easy

1 2 3

40
 Let’s review some
concepts
Yellow Blue Red
Is the color of gold, Is the colour of the Is the color of
butter and ripe clear sky and the blood, danger and
lemons. deep sea. courage.

Blue Yellow Red

Is the color of gold,
Is the colour of the Is the color of
clear sky and the butter and ripe blood, danger and
deep sea. lemons. courage.

41
You can insert graphs from Google Sheets 42
Mobile Place your screenshot here
Show and explain your web,
app or software projects
using these gadget
project templates.

43
Tablet Place your screenshot here
Show and explain your web,
app or software projects
using these gadget
project templates.

44
Desktop Place your screenshot here Show and explain your web,
app or software projects
using these gadget
project templates.

45
Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at
￮ @username
￮ user@mail.me

46
Credits
Special thanks to all the people who made
and released these awesome resources for
free:
￮ Presentation template by
SlidesCarnival
￮ Photographs by Unsplash

47
Presentation design
This presentation uses the following typographies:
￮ Titles: Poppins Bold
￮ Body copy: Poppins Light
You can download the fonts at:
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/poppins

You don’t need to keep this slide in your presentation. It’s only
here to serve you as a design guide if you need to create new
slides or download the fonts to edit the presentation in
PowerPoint® 48
SlidesCarnival icons are editable shapes.

This means that you can:

● Resize them without losing quality.
● Change line color, width and style.

Isn’t that nice? :)

Examples:

49
😉
Now you can use any emoji as an icon!
And of course it resizes without losing quality and you can change the color.

How? Follow Google instructions

https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/730087240156643328

✋👆👉👍👤👦👧👨👩👪💃🏃💑❤😂
😉😋😒😭👶😸🐟🍒🍔💣📌📖🔨🎃🎈
🎨🏈🏰🌏🔌🔑 and many more...
50