ARELLANO UNIVERSITY
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
DYNAMIC LEARNING PLAN
SUBJECT DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
TOPIC HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF EACH DISCIPLINE
REFERENCE
WEEK 4 DAY
OBJECTIVES A. define the nine disciplines of Social Sciences; and
B. identify the natures and functions of each discipline.
CONCEPTS Anthropology
- Traces its roots from natural history which is the study of plants, animals and humans with reference to
their history and native environment.
- The discovery and contact to new civilizations by European explorers and colonizers led to curiosity
and questions of who these people are, who their ancestors were, how they are related to other people
in other places, what makes them distinct, what similarities they share with the rest, how they
conduct their way of life, and what culture they have in terms of knowledge they possess, their beliefs,
technology that have, etc.
-It was in 19th century that the discipline began its formative years as a social science.
History
- Through the Medieval and Renaissance periods, History was often studied through a sacred or
religious perspective.
- Recently, the field of digital history has begun to address ways of using computer technology to pose
new questions to historical data and generate digital scholarships.
Economics
- It was not considered a separate discipline until the nineteenth century
- Greeks examined wealth accumulation and inquiries on whether property should be in the hands of
private or public institutions.
- In medieval times (Middle Ages - 5th to 15th century), scholars argued that it was a moral obligation of
business to sell goods at a just price.
Geography
- People engaged in the study of geography because it satisfies their natural curiosity about foreign
places and different ways of life.
- The Ancient Greeks made the first contribution to the subject through measuring the earth using grids
of meridians.
Linguistic
- It was the old Babylon who first created linguistics texts called Sumerian.
- Hindus also created text called Vedas.
- The formal study of language began in India
- It started with the formulation of 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology.
- Early interest in language in the West was a part of Philosophy, not a grammatical description.
Political Science
- It was once part of the many related fields of study like history, philosophy, law and economics.
- The theoretical and practical study of the state and the politics began way back to the time of the
Ancient Greeks, about 500 - 300 B.C.
Psychology
- It has its roots in Ancient Greek Philosophy such as epistemology, metaphysics, religion and oriental
philosophy.
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- Over the centuries, psychology and physiology became increasingly separated resulting to the two
conceptions of psychology that is phenomenological (experimental) and mechanistic (physiological).
Sociology
- The intellectual, scientific and industrial revolutions which happened in Europe in the middle of the
19th century led to the development of Sociology.
- The intellectual revolution opened new perspective in society which offered the people new
principles, ideals, and beliefs changing their outlook in life and the way they perceive themselves, their
environment and relations with fellow men.
- The revolutions in Europe brought rapid and radical changes which resulted to social problems, issues
and social unrest prompting some individual to direct their attention and investigation of social
phenomena.
QUESTIONS/ACTIVITY Activity I. TRUE OR FALSE Direction: Write the word Yehey if the statement is correct and Yahoo if it is
not.
1. Different speech communities may reflect subsets of the same language called dialects.
2. People with a certain word choice, syntax, and pronunciation are revealed to be members of a
particular speech community.
3. Sigmund Freud opened the first experimental laboratory in psychology at the University of Leipzig,
Germany.
4. The Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is based on historical population trends of two
demographic characteristics.
5. The earliest evidence of such explorations come from the archaeological discovery of a Sumerian
clay tablet map that dates back to 2300 BC.
6. Edward Burnett Taylor wrote “Researched into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of
Civilization”.
7. Adam Smith collected historical materials systematically and critically and arranged them into a
historical narrative.
8. Herodotus wrote “Wealth of the Nations” in 1776.
9. Eratosthenes described the known areas of the world and divided the Earth into five climatic regions.
10. Charles Darwin wrote “Principles of Physiological Psychology.”
[Link] the Medieval and Renaissance periods, history was often studied through a sacred or
religious perspective.
[Link] was not considered a separate discipline until the eighteenth century.
[Link] medieval times, scholars argued that it was a moral obligation of business to sell goods at a just
price.
[Link] Ancient French made the first contribution to the subject through measuring the Earth using
grids of meridians.
15. The formal study of language began in China.
ASSESSMENT/
APPLICATION WORD HUNT
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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Direction: Find the following words in the word hunt below and prepare two to three-word
association synonym for each word.
Age Dialects Indicator Social Science
Class Development Policy Water
Colony Filipino Poverty Values
Community Gender Power Women
Conflict Globe Society
List Down here the Associate Synonyms of each Word:
e.g Community – group