Discipline and Ideas in the

Social Sciences
Social Science
 Any discipline or branch of science that
deals with human behavior in its social
and cultural aspects.The social sciences
include cultural(or social)
anthropology,sociology,social
psycology,political science and
economics
 Socialscience as a whole has many
branches. These social sciences include,
but are not limited to: anthropology,
archaeology, communication studies,
economics, history, musicology, human
geography, jurisprudence, linguistics,
political science, psychology, public
health, and sociology.
The seven social sciences are
usually considered:

 Anthropology.
 Economics.
 Geography.
 History.
 Political
Science.
 Sociology.
 Psychology.
 Anthropology is the scientific study of
humans and human behavior and
societies in the past and present.
 -anthropos (Human) Logos ( study)

 Social anthropology and cultural

anthropology study the norms and values
of societies. Linguistic anthropology
studies how language affects social life
economics
Economics is a social science that deals
with the production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services. ...
-household manangement

Macroeconomics - the branch of

economics that studies the overall working
of a national economy.
Geography is the study of places and the
relationships between people and their
environments. Geographers explore both
the physical properties of Earth's surface
and the human societies spread across it. ...
Geography seeks to understand where
things are found, why they are there, and
how they develop and change over time.
history
 History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia,
meaning 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by
investigation') is the past as it is described
in written documents, and the study
thereof. Events occurring before written
records are considered prehistory.
 histoire-recorded and documented
events
 Linguistics is the study of language - how
it is put together and how it functions. ...
 Linguists are people who study linguistics.
Phonetics is the study of the sounds of
speech.
 -lingua (tongue language)
 psychology
 Psychology
sociology
 the study of the development, structure,
and functioning of human society.
 the study of social problems.
 Demography is the study of human
population dynamics. It encompasses the
study of the size, structure and distribution
of populations, and how populations
change over time due to births, deaths,
migration, and aging.
 The main reason why it is important to
study the social sciences is because a
knowledge of the social sciences can
help us improve our societies. ... Overall,
then, it is important to study social
sciences so that we can get the sorts of
information that can help us create better
societies.