EFFECTS OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE

The importance of the applied social sciences can be explained by understanding its effects to
the different sectors of society. Through the application of the theories, methods, and concepts
from the social sciences, the applied social sciences provide significant benefits to individuals,
grous,and society. This lesson explains the different effects of the applied social sciences to
individual members of society ,groups, or communities and to society in general.

Guide Question

What are the effects of applied social sciences processes on individual

members of society?
What sre the effects of applied social sciences processes on the groups
and communities.

TOPICS
: Effects of the Applied Social Sciences : Structural Change

: Awareness and Knowledge : Bahavioral Change

: Attitude and Value Change

At the end of the lesson, you should be able to:

Identify the different effects of the applied social
Knowledge sciences processes to individual members of society,
groups, or communities and to society in general.

Demonstrate learning and realization after participating in a

community- related development program organized by your
Skills school by writing a reflection paper hat will explain how the
program changed or affected the lives of the people in the
community, the community itself, and the country in
general.

Activity # 1
Do you think the applied social sciences processes have short term
and long term effects to individuals, groups, and society? Put a check
mark  on the column if you think if it has an effect to individuals,
grpups, and society. Use the table to answer the question.

Applied Social Sciences Does it have an Does it have an Does it have an

Processes effect on the effect on groups/ effect on the
individual/person? communities? society?
1. Counseling

2. Social Work

3. Communication

ACQUISITION Of Knowledge and Skills

EFFECTS OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES

The applied social sciences processes have different effects on various sectors of society.
The use of the different theories ,concepts ,and methodologies from the social sciences
provide benefits to individuals, groups, and the society. The benefits derived from the applied
social sciences produce numerous effects to individual members , communities ,and groups and
the society in general. The effects of the applied social sciences vary and they include increased
awareness and knowledge of oneself and others, attitude and value change, behavioral
changes, and structural changes.

Activity #2
Analyze the photos and answer the questions.

: Social Workers

: NEWS social news

Guide Question

Using the photos above as your basis , how do the applied social
sciences help individual members of society , community , and
society in general to become more aware and knowledgeable about
the different problem of society?

AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE

Through the applied social sciences, people have developed ways to understand
one’s self and the other people around. Counseling , for example , allows us to
understand one’s personality including various problems and issues that may
affect an individual. The applied social sciences also allows us to understand
better and probe deeper into the different problems and issues affecting an
individual , group, and society through social work. Social work, for example ,
provides awareness and understanding of community organizing issue and
mobilization. They also inform communities about the important political , social ,
and economic issue that is affecting them. Trainings conducted by social workers
on community capacity building provide members with successful strategiesand
skills for personal and community development . The applied social sciences
,particularly communication helped people to become more discerning about the
problems of country. Television , radio, and newspaper provide people
information on the different issues faced by the country. Through media , people
also became more aware of the social realities.

Activity #3
Analyze the photos and answer the questions.
: The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia

A Regional Review
Guide Question
ATTITUDE AND VALUE CHANGE
The applied social sciences allows us to understand various social phenomena and becausebof
this , people can make significant changes in their attitudes and values to prevent the
occurrence of various natural and social problems. For eample, risks of disasters can be
prevented and mitigated through the use of the applied social sciences because it can provide
us information on what to do when disasters happen in a community. Community social
workers provide people with information that can help them to make important attitude and
value changes so that the impact of disasters can be reduced.

For example, the impact of climate change to society and its overarching effects on our
country has become clearer and can easily be understood through the information
communication to us by media. Disasters, climate change, and its other adverse effects are
now clear to society because it has been effectively discussed and communicated in different
forms of media like, television . radio, internet, and social media. Applied social scientists can
communicate to the people impact of these social environmental phenomena through their
understanding of the interaction of society ,culture, and environmental. Because of our
knowledge of climate change, people have developed a new perspective and change of
attitudes and values about the importance of climate change.

For example , social workers provide people affected by disaster training on how to become
vulnerable to hazards on what they should do before, during, after a disaster . These trainings
and programs that were done and implemented by applied social sciences practitioners
changed the people’s attitude , values, and ideas towards disasters. Through the help of social
workers , people affected by disaster become more resilient and prepared in times of disasters.