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Introduction to Sociology
The Social Sciences
Designed to comprehend, explain, and predict the different occurrences and phenomena of the natural environment.
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Biology
Geology
Chemistry
Physics
Social Sciences
A field of study which primary concern is to observe patterns of human behavior and society.
o Anthropology
o Economics
o Political Science
o Psychology
o Sociology
o (History)
Attempts to unearth the facts surrounding some event which is of social significance
Looks for the important people, ideas, institutions, social movements or preceding events
Reconstructs records from the past, abstracts what they consider to be the most important elements or variables that caused the event.
Political Science
Focuses on politics and government, how groups of people govern others/ themselves
Looks at various forms of government and structures and their relations to other institutions of society
Economics
Deals with the study of production, distribution, and allocation of material goods and services of society
Concerned with what goods are being produced; at what rate or what cost and variables that determine who gets what.
Anthropology
Introduction to Sociology
The Social Sciences
Looks at group structures, patterns, genealogy, ideas and values, belief systems, forms of communications
Psychology
Sociology
Like history, it also attempts to study social contexts that affect people
Like political science, it looks at how people govern each other and the consequences thereafter.
Like economics, it deals with how goods are distributed and allocated, especially the social consequences of distribution.
Like anthropology, it also looks and studies culture-- social consequences of material goods, group structures, beliefs, and communication
systems.
Like psychology, studies how people adjust to the problems they face in life, their dispositions, behaviors, etc.
Dropped out of school to support his siblings after his parents died.
Son of a tailor
Introduction to Sociology
The Social Sciences
Stature affects AFPs stand and capacity to defend RP in current national security
issues.
Before South Korea got rich, wired and worried, its suicide
rate was among the lowest in the industrialized world. (7.9 %
- 1990 to 24.7 % - 2008)