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Ucsp Module 1 Notes

Social science is the academic discipline concerned with society and relationships between individuals. The document outlines several key disciplines within social sciences including anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociology, geography, law, linguistics, and archaeology. Sociology specifically is defined as the study of society and social interaction. It is categorized as an independent science, a social science rather than physical science, a categorical rather than normative discipline, and both a rational and empirical science. The main areas of sociology discussed are social organization, social psychology, social change, human ecology, population, and social theory and methods.

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Ucsp Module 1 Notes

Social science is the academic discipline concerned with society and relationships between individuals. The document outlines several key disciplines within social sciences including anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociology, geography, law, linguistics, and archaeology. Sociology specifically is defined as the study of society and social interaction. It is categorized as an independent science, a social science rather than physical science, a categorical rather than normative discipline, and both a rational and empirical science. The main areas of sociology discussed are social organization, social psychology, social change, human ecology, population, and social theory and methods.

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UCSP MODULE 1 NOTES

SOCIAL SCIENCE
- academic discipline concerned with society and the relationships among individuals
within a society, which often rely primarily on empirical approaches.

DISCIPLINES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Anthropology - study of the cultural, social, and physical development of humans.


• Economics - study of the ways in which a society deals with money and the availability
of goods.
• History - the study of man’s past and his decisions
• Political science - the study of the processes and principles of government and other
political institutions
• Psychology - the study of the mind’s functions as they relate to one’s physical and
social environment
• Sociology - the study of social behavior and societies.
• Geography - the study of the Earth and the way humans are dispersed on it.
• Law - the study of the rules that society lives by and how they are formed or influenced
by popular beliefs.
• Linguistics - the study of the structure of language, its syntax, phonology, semantics,
phonetics, morphology, and the nature of language and its variations’
• Archaeology - the study of past civilizations, with information gleaned from material
remains, such as, artifacts, buildings, graves, etc.
SOCIOLOGY

- derived from the words Socio meaning Society and Logos meaning study.
- branch of social sciences which deals with the study of society and social interaction
taking place and the change which takes place within it.

NATURE OF SOCIOLOGY
1. Sociology is an independent science
2. Sociology is the social science and not a physical science
3. Sociology is the categorical and not a normative discipline
4. Sociology is the pure science and not an applied science
5. Sociology is the relatively an abstract science and not a concrete science
6. Sociology is the generalizing and not a particularizing or individualizing science
7. Sociology is the general science not a special science
8. Sociology is both rational and an empirical science

AREA OF SOCIOLOGY

a. Social Organization- study groups social institutions, social stratification, mobility,


ethnic relation and bureaucracy.
b. Social Psychology- tackles on human behaviour nature as the result of group life,
personality formation, social attitude and collective behaviour.

c. Social Change – deals with the study of change in the society and culture and factors
resulting to change.

d. Human Ecology- study the behaviour of the given population and its relationship to
present institution.

e. Population- concerns population size, composition, change and quality and how they
influence economic, political and social system.

f. Social theory and method- concern with the application of results of sociological
studies to solve various human problem

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