Grade 11 St.

Augustine Humanities and Social Sciences

Quarter 1 TOPICS
Week 1 1. EMERGENCE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Defining Social Sciences as the study of society
Week 2 2. Introducing the disciplines within the Social Sciences
- Anthropology
- Economics
- Geography
- History
3. Introducing the disciplines within the Social Sciences
Week 3 - Linguistics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology and Demography
Week 4 4. DOMINANT APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES
- Structural-Functionalism
- Marxism
- Symbolic Interactionism
Week 5 5. DOMINANT APPROACHES AND IDEAS
-Psychoanalysis
- Rational Choice
- Institutionalism
Quarter 2 TOPICS
Week 1 1. DOMINANT APPROACHES AND IDEAS
- Feminist Theory
- Hermeneutical Phenomenology
- Human-Environment Systems
Week 2 2. INDIGENIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Filipino Social Thinkers
- Institute of Philippine Culture’s study on Philippine values
Week 3 3. INDIGENIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Sikolohiyang Pilipino
- Pantayong Pananaw
Week 4 4. SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE REAL WORLD
- Professions from Social Sciences
Week 5 5. SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE REAL WORLD
- Applications and intersections of the approaches in addressing social
problem
OBJECTIVES OF THE LESSON
• The student must be able to
demonstrate learning to the key
concepts and approaches in the Social
Sciences
• Interpret personal and social
experiences using relevant
approaches in the Social Sciences
• Evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of each of the approach
PERSPECTIVES AND IDEAS
• The word perspective can be defined in various ways. In
art perspective refers to the appearance to the eye of
objects in respect to their relative distance and positions.
And relatively on a general application of the word,
perspective can apply to the same meaning as
a particular way of looking or interpreting something.
• In social science there are various perspectives that offers
a theoretical framework on how we must look and study
our environment. This particular sociological perspectives
provides us various ways on how to interpret sociological
phenomenon. With it’s large amount of knowledge and
facts it serves as a lens to be able to observe and find
meaning on our social lives.
• These perspectives or approaches of studies are
conducted through different levels of analysis
Levels of Analysis
Sociological study may be conducted at both macro (large-scale
social processes) and micro (small group, face-to-face interactions)
levels.

Micro level - sociologists examine the

smallest levels of interaction; even in some
cases, just “the self” alone. Micro level
analyses might include one-on-one
interactions between couples or friends.
Example: Study on the relationships of
adults and their parents or the study of the
preferences of a specific individual or family
Macro level
- Sociologists examine social structures and
institutions. Research at the macro level
examines large-scale patterns.
- Sociologists who conduct macrolevel
research study interactions at the broadest
level, such as interactions between nations
or comparisons across nations.
Example: Study on the impact of climate
change to global economy
Study of the effects of the war
on drugs campaign by President Duterte to
the nation’s tourism
Liberal feminists cite women's oppression as
rooted in social, political, and legal constraints.
Radical libertarian feminists hold that the
patriarchal system that oppresses women must be
completely eliminated and that women should be
free to exercise total sexual and reproductive
freedom.
Radical cultural feminists urge women to extricate
themselves from the institution of compulsory
heterosexuality.
Marxist–socialist feminists claim it is impossible
for anyone, especially women, to achieve true
freedom in a class-based society.
• Feminist theory is a theory that emphasizes gender as
key basis of structured inequality. It challenges
conventional distinctions between public and private
and problematizes the fundamentally political
relationship between gender and power. Feminist
theory is a major branch within sociology that shifts
its assumptions, analytic lens, and topical focus away
from the male viewpoint and experience toward that
of women.
• In doing so, feminist theory shines a light on social
problems, trends, and issues that are otherwise
overlooked or misidentified by the historically
dominant male perspective within social theory.
Key areas of focus within feminist theory
include:
• discrimination and exclusion on the basis of sex
and gender
• objectification
• structural and economic inequality
• power and oppression
• gender roles and stereotypes
• Many people incorrectly believe that
feminist theory focuses exclusively on girls
and women and that it has an inherent goal
of promoting the superiority of women over
men.
• In reality, feminist theory has always been
about viewing the social world in a way that
illuminates the forces that create and
support inequality, oppression, and injustice,
and in doing so, promotes the pursuit of
equality and justice.
Multicultural feminists explain how the idea of
‘sameness’ could counter intuitively be used as
an instrument of oppression rather than
liberation.
Postmodern feminists challenge Western
dualistic thinking.
Global feminists stress the universal interests of
women worldwide.
Ecofeminists focus on the connection among
humans to the nonhuman world. This branch of
feminism is much more spiritual than political or
theoretical in nature
Modern Western feminist history is conventionally
split into three time periods, or "waves", each with
slightly different aims based on prior progress:[
• First-wave feminism of the 19th and early 20th
centuries focused on overturning legal inequalities,
particularly addressing issues of women's suffrage
• Second-wave feminism (1960s–1980s)
broadened debate to include cultural inequalities,
gender norms, and the role of women in society
• Third-wave feminism (1990s–2000s) refers to
diverse strains of feminist activity, seen by third-
wavers themselves both as a continuation of the
second wave and as a response to its perceived
failures
• Susan B. Anthony - A founder of the National Women's
Suffrage Association, she published a weekly journal, The
Revolution. It advocated for equal rights for both women and
African Americans.
• Mary Wollstonecraft was an early supporter of women's
rights with her work, A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman. She argued that women only appeared intellectually
inferior to men at the time because they lacked access to
education
• Elizabeth Blackwell - In the late 1800's, professions for
women rarely existed outside of a domestic sphere. Elizabeth
Blackwell, the first female doctor, was one of the first to
challenge this norm.
• Simone de Beauvoir - French writer, philosopher and
activist Simone de Beauvoir penned one of the most
influential books on feminism of the 20th century, The Second
Sex. In The Second Sex, she argues about the social construct
of feminism.
HERMENEUTICAL
PHENOMENOLOGY
HERMENEUTICAL PHENOMENOLOGY

• HERMENEUTICAL PHENOMENOLOGY – is a
qualitative research methodology that arose
out of and remains closely tied to
phenomenological philosophy, a strand of
continent philosophy. Phenomenology refers
to a person’s perception of the meaning of
an event, as opposed to the event as exist
externally to (outside of) that person
• It is based from two approaches in the two
analytical perspectives of social sciences;
Hermeneutics and Phenomenology
HERMENEUTICAL PHENOMENOLOGY

• Hermeneutics comes from the Greek word for

'interpreter'. The concept of utilizing a system to
interpret texts was first noted in early writings by
Aristotle.
• HERMENEUTICS - In the study of literary texts,
scholars frequently adhere to a set of rules or a
specific system on which to base their
interpretation. Similarly, the interpretation of non-
literary texts, such as art or philosophy, may also
require adherence to such a method. The specific
rules used to interpret and understand a text are
known collectively as hermeneutics.
•
• Phenomenological analysis is based on
discussions and reflections of direct sense
perception and experiences of the researched
phenomenon.
• These orientations lay emphasis on experiences,
interpretations and bodily sensations.
• A starting point of the strategy is your ability to
approach a project without a priori assumptions,
definitions or theoretical frameworks. A key
aspect of this method of analysis is
phenomenological reduction.
• Phenomenological analysis is a broad and loose
name for various types of analysis based on the
phenomenological orientation of the Philosophy
of science. You can combine phenomenological
analysis with other modes of analysis.
• Phenomenological research enables you to explore
experiences and sensory perception (different to
abstract perceptions) of researched phenomenon,
and the formation of understanding based on these
experiences and perceptions.
• Your research strategy is based, therefore, on either
your own or other people’s experiences and sensory
perception. In phenomenological researches, the aim
of your strategy is: Either to use your own direct
experiences acquired during the research process to
describe and analyse the phenomenon, in order to
produce in-depth knowledge of the phenomenon.
HUMAN-
ENVIRONMENT
SYSTEMS
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT
SYSTEMS
• It refers to the systems which combine both human
and natural components to show complex
interactions, and feedback between them.
• It provides a bigger and wider view of looking at
environmental issues. It highlights the importance of
synergy and interconnection or interdependence of
the human society and the environment.
• It looks at the human agency as not just a user of
environmental resources but also protectors of the
environment and other species. It rest on the idea
that individually and collectively, humans can
resolve.
The most internationally accepted framework for
studying such systems is the DPSIR model
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT
SYSTEMS
• This framework for human-environment
systems recognizes the human activities which
place pressure on the environment and how
these pressures modify the current state of the
atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and
biosphere.
• This leads to impacts on the environment as
well as on social and economic systems. In
turn, human society attempts to problem-solve
in order to remove, reduce or prevent the
drivers and pressures, restore the state of the
environment and mitigate impacts.