Defining the applied

social sciences
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 Economics
1. Studies the allocation of scarce resources and the production and
exchange of goods and services in society
2. As a discipline, it analyzes the supply and demand principles, economics
fluctuations, savings and investments and costs and prices
3. Four Subfields:
a. Environmental economics
b. Labor economics
c. Business economics
d. Monetary economics
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 Anthropology
1. Scientific study of humans and their cultures in the past and present time
2. Major concern: help solve problems through study of culture
3. Trained in different areas:
a. Cultural anthropology
b. Physical anthropology
c. Archeology
d. Anthropological linguistics
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 History
1. Two sources
a. Primary : refer to eyewitness accounts or contemporaneous accounts about the
event
b. Secondary : not eye-witness accounts and are based from the primary sources
2. Several subfields:
a. Political history
b. Economic history
c. Social history
d. Environmental history
e. History of medicine and public health
f. Business history
g. Biographies
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 Political Science
1. Studies human behavior in relation to political systems, governments, laws
and international relations
2. Examines the relationship between people and policy at all levels
3. Several subfield to study:
a. Domestic politics
b. Comparative politics
c. International relations
d. Public administration
e. Public law
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 Psychology
1. Studies how the human mind works in consonance with the body produce
thoughts that lead to individual actions
2. Analyzes how people and groups experience the world through various
emotions, ideas, and in different conscious states
3. Several subfield:
a. Experimental psychology
b. Developmental psychology
c. Personality psychology
d. Social psychology
e. Environmental psychology
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 Sociology
1. Systematic study of people’s behavior in groups
2. As discipline, it attempts to understand why and how people interact with
each other and how they function as a society or social subgroup
3. Several subfields:
a. Applied sociology
b. Urban sociology
c. Cultural Sociology
d. Rural sociology
e. Sociology of Education
f. Political sociology
g. Military sociology
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 Geography
1. Study of the interaction between people and their environments
2. It studies how human culture interacts with the natural environment and the
impact of locations and places on people
3. Two main branches:
a. Physical geography
b. Human geography
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 Demography
1. According to Max Planck: A scientific study of human populations across
time
2. It examines the changes in population growth through the analysis of stat
on: birth, human movement, and morbility, agedness and mortality
3. One important subfield:
a. Population studies or social demography