JMJ

NOTRE DAME-SIENA COLLEGE OF POLOMOLOK

Brgy.Poblacion, Polomolok, South Cotabato

BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

AY: 2021-2022

“Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity”

GRADE 11 LEARNING MODULES

IN
DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES

First Quarter
2nd SEMESTER

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WEEK 1: JANUARY 17-28, 2021
Name: ____________________________________
Grade & Section: 11 - HUMSS
Subject: DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Teacher: Joana Lae M. Lebidion

PRAYER BEFORE STUDYING

Lord, I know you are with me and love me.

Give me peace of mind as I prepare for this time of study.
Help me to focus on my modules, books and notes,
keep me from all distractions so that I will make the best use
of this time that is available to me.
Give me insight that I might understand what I am studying,
and help me to remember it when the time comes.
Above all, I thank you for the ability to be able to study
and for the many gifts and talents you have given me.
Help me always to use them in such a way
that they honor you and do justice to myself.
All of these I ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.

General Instruction: All answers in your activities must be written in clean a sheet of paper.
EMERGENCE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
INTRODUCTION AND FOCUS QUESTION:

Social science as a discipline came about as a result of the need to understand society that is
evolving to be ever more complex and multifaceted. The scientific nature of the discipline makes it
suitable in addressing social issues that have not been encountered before. This module discusses
different disciplines under the social sciences whose perspectives can shed light in understanding and
resolving different issues that affect society. It also traces the historical foundations and social contexts
that led to the development of each discipline.
As you go through this part, keep in mind this question: What is social science and how it
can be used to study and understand society?

MODULE COVERAGE:
In this module, you will examine the answer of this question when you take the lesson:
Lesson 1 – EMERGENCE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
In this lesson you will learn the following:
Lesson Topic Objectives Time
# The learners will be able to: Frame
1 Emergence of the Social  Differentiate the nature and functions of Social 8 meetings
Sciences Science disciplines with the natural sciences
and humanities
 Explain the major events and their contribution
that led to the emergence of the social science
disciplines

To start with the lesson read first the informational text given below. Then after reading
perform activity 1 and 2.

Definition of Social Sciences

Guide Question: What is social science and how it can be used to study and understand society?

September 11, 2001 will forever be remembered in modern history as a day of infamy. Four planes
were commandeered by terrorists to crash into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the
Pentagon, and the White House or the Capitol. Three of the planes hit their targets, while the fourth plane
crashed on a field of rural Pennsylvania and missed its target because of the initiative and joint action of the
passengers and crew of the plane. Naturally, questions crop up in the aftermath. Who is the group behind the
attack and what kind of influence do they hold over the individuals who carried out the attack? Why target the
United States and ordinary civilians? What could have been done to thwart or even prevent it? Such questions
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may be answered by the different disciplines under the social sciences, which look into the historical, cultural,
sociological, psychological, and the political forces that shape the actions of individuals and their impact on
society. Simply say social science is the study of society. It is a useful instrument in understanding the
complexities and issues involved in the interrelationships of the different variables that produce the state of
affairs at every level in society.

Natural Sciences and Humanities

Social science is different from natural science and humanities because its primary interest lies in
predicting and explaining human behaviour. Natural science, on the other hand, aims to predict all natural
phenomena and its studies are based on experimentally controlled condition of material entities. Humanism
seeks to understand “human reactions to events and the meanings humans impose on experience as a
function of culture, historical era, and life history.”

The use of the scientific method unites these three fields of study although it is more commonly used in
the social sciences and natural sciences than humanism. The scientific method is a systematic and logical
approach in acquiring and explaining knowledge. It involves a step-by-step procedure of identifying the
problem, formulating a hypothesis and testing this hypothesis by gathering and analyzing relevant data. This
method requires critical thinking skills in solving problems. The scientific method is very important in the field of
social science since it is the instrument by which issues and problems are examined and recommendations for
policy-making are offered depending on the findings of the study conducted.

ACTIVITY 1: Photo Analysis

DESCRIPTION: In this activity you will analyze a certain picture below. Identify one major social issue
or problem that greatly affects the Philippine society. Explain how the social sciences can be used to
address this issue or social problem and also explain how natural sciences and humanities involve in
this problem.

Social Issue/ Problem Importance of using social sciences perspectives

in addressing the social issue or problem.

After doing this activity, please answer the following questions:

1. What is the picture all about?
2. Why does the scenario in the picture a societal problem?
3. How can the social sciences perspective be used to examine/address said key issue
or problem?
4. What are the steps that the government do enable to prevent this kind of situation?

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ACTIVITY 2: DIAGRAMMING
DESCRIPTION: In this activity you will compare and contrast natural science and humanities by
answering the Venn diagram below.
Natural Science Humanities

The next activity will help you understand the nature and functions of Social Science
disciplines as how these disciplines shape the actions of individuals and their impact in the
society. But read the given informational text then perform activity 3 and 4.

Disciplines or Branches in the Social Sciences

Social science studies the historical, cultural, sociological, psychological, and the political forces that
shape the actions of individuals and their impact on society. The different disciplines under the social sciences
all help in providing a better understanding and appreciation of the complex issues the society faces. These
disciplines are Anthropology, Demography, Economics, Geography, Linguistics, History, Political Science,
Psychology, and Sociology.

Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of ancient societies and their cultural traditions. Anthropology came from the Greek
word anthropos meaning “humankind” and logos meaning “study”. Anthropologists investigate the people’s
language, their values, technologies and even how they group themselves. And they also study the way the
cultural traditions of different groups of people have changes over the years. Anthropology is also related to the
other disciplines of the social sciences. An examination of the cultural practices of different groups and
communities require knowledge of the history of the area where the people lived. Anthropology’s emergence
as an area of inquiry can go as far back as the time of Herodotus of Halicarnassus.

Economics
Economics is the study of the efficient allocation of scarce resources in order to satisfy unlimited human needs
and wants. The word Economics came from the Greek words, oikos meaning “home” and nomos meaning
“management”. Economics is classified into two scopes: Microeconomics (study of the choices made by
economic actors such as households, companies, and individual markets) and Macroeconomics (examines the
behaviour of entire economies). Just like in anthropology, the period of Enlightenment has inspired the birth of
modern economics. It has strengthened institutions, which liberalized economic opportunities and which have
been more guarded against despotism, making a faster pace of industrial and technological growth possible.

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Geography
Geography studies the interaction between the natural environment and the people living in it. It acts as a
bridge between natural science and social science. Geography comes from two Greek words: geo meaning
“Earth” and graphos meaning “charting or mapping”. This social science discipline studies where things are on
Earth, explains why they are there, and their relationships to other people, places and things.

History
History is traditionally regarded as the study of the recorded past. It comes from the Greek word historia,
meaning “learning”. As used by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, history meant a systematic account of a set of
natural phenomena, whether or not chronological ordering was a factor in the account. The discipline attempts
to reconstruct the past given the available sources.

Linguistic
Linguistic came from the Latin word lingua, meaning “language”. The discipline studies the nature of language
through an examination of the formal properties of natural language, grammar, and the process of language
acquisition. Language plays an important role in both cognition and culture of society. Throughout most of
history, linguistics has been considered a province of philosophy and rhetoric.

Political Science
Political Science is the study of politics, power, and government. The word politics comes from the Greek word
politea, or a person who participates in the polis. Engagement in the polis means taking part in its decision-
making, which normally takes place in the agora, or the market place, where new laws are passed or
disseminated under the scrutiny of the political decision-making in the polis only limited to Greek men. Politics
is the process of using power in the government, while power is the means for the government to rule the
people. Government is the authority or the bureaucracy that provides the system of rule over its territory and
for its people. Political science as an academic discipline separates from history was only established after the
Second World War in American universities as well as in a number of European Universities: Even in Central
and Eastern Europe, it was only after the decline of the Socialist regime in the 1990s and only under the newly
installed democratic regimes when political science as a discipline was developed.

Psychology
It is in the interest of society to understand how its people think and why they behave in a
certain way. This is where psychology comes in. It is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes.
This includes the physical state and the mental state and how these all relate to the environment of the
individual. It comes from the Greek words, psyche meaning “soul” or “spirit”, and logos meaning “study”.

Sociology
It is the systematic study of human society. It comes from the Latin word socius meaning “friend” or
“companion” and the Greek word logos meaning “study”. Sociology studies how people relate to each other
and how they work as a whole in the larger society. The sociological perspective sees the general in the
particular. Sociology was born as a result of powerful and complex economic and social forces. The industrial
revolution created massive changes not just in the field of technology and in the way goods are manufactured,
but also in the work and living pattern of the people.

Demography
Demography is the study of human population. It comes from two ancient Greek words, demos meaning “the
people” and graphos meaning “charting or mapping. The discipline also studies how people move from place
to place. The main sources of data are census and other vital statistics. Some basic demographic concepts
include fertility, mortality, migration, and population growth. Demography, on the other hand, highlights its main
area of inquiry which is population growth rate, and which Malthus believes to be growing in geometric
progression.

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ACTIVITY 3: Chart Completion
DESCRIPTION: In this activity you will complete the table below by identifying the appropriate
discipline applicable in the given situation and explain why you choose that certain social science
discipline in that particular situation.
Situation Appropriate Social Science Discipline
1. Evaluation of the career path Discipline:
with respect to the Explanation:
qualifications of the
individual employees in your
company
2. An analysis of the Discipline:
consumption patterns among Explanation:
housewives in a middle-
income community
3. A description of the different Discipline:
cultural practices of the Explanation:
Igorots
4. An analysis of the voting Discipline:
behavior among young adults Explanation:
5. An analysis on the causes of Discipline:
fraternity wars and gang Explanation:
violence
6. A policy recommendation on Discipline:
how to raise the incidence of Explanation:
birth in countries that have
an aging population
7. A study on what causes Discipline:
severe depression which Explanation:
leads to suicide
8. An inquiry on how colonial Discipline:
occupation has changed the Explanation:
values of the native
population
9. An investigation of areas or Discipline:
locations where the incidence Explanation:
of earthquakes are most
likely to occur
10. An inquiry on the causes of Discipline:
juvenile delinquency among Explanation:
adolescents
After doing this activity, please answer the following questions:
1. Does learning this following social science disciplines help you understand what life is?
2. How do the following disciplines shape the actions of individuals and their impact on
society?
3. Is there one best discipline in the social sciences? Why?

ACTIVITY 4: Critical Thinking

DESCRIPTION: Application of the social science discipline in the election campaign materials.

Research on campaign materials, whether in print or in television media, which were used in
previous national elections. Identify major social issues normally outlined in these campaign materials.
Analyze which among of the disciplines of the social sciences was used to address the social issue. If
you were in the shoes of these national candidates, what other measures do you propose to make your
recommendations more effective? The answer should identify the specific discipline in the social
sciences.

Outline:
I. Major social issues normally outlined in these campaign materials
II. Disciplines of the social science used to address the social issue
III. Conclusion

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 Great Job! You are done answering the activities and now let’s check your
understanding based on the lesson given to you by answering the quiz below.

I. Quiz #1

ESSAY: Answer the following questions below.

1. How Social Science shapes lives?
2. How does social science resolve the complexities and social issues that affect the society?
3. How important are the disciplines of social sciences to the stability of societies?

Just Remember:
Social science is the science of studying society and, over the past more than 100 years, it has also
developed various modes of engaging the notion of society and how to truly grasp its enigma. In the process,
various ideas had been put forward and all of them answered the call and needs of their particular times and
contexts.

Closing Prayer after Studying

I thank you, Lord our God, that again on this occasion you have opened my eyes to the light of your wisdom.
You have gladdened my heart with the knowledge of truth. I entrust you, Lord, help me always to do your will.
Bless my soul and body, my words and deeds.
Enable me to grow in grace, virtue and good habits, that your name may be glorified, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now
and forever. Amen.

Prepared by: Checked by: Noted by: Approved by:

JOANA LAE M. LEBIDION MRS. HONEY VI H. PERKINS MR. LUIS A. BERRO SR. LANI O. JULIA, OP
Subject Teacher SATL Academic Coordinator Principal