INTRODUCTION TO THIS STUDY GUIDE

Hello, dear Students!

Welcome to this study guide in DISS!

I am Ms. Ruth Madriaga!

Your teacher in Discipline and Ideas in the Social Sciences.
I would like to welcome you in this specialized course for HUMSS
students.
Congratulations because you are now in Senior High School.
If you have questions, you may contact me at 09195986725, thru my FB
account https://www.facebook.com/luthieRuth/

So, let’s start this study guide! Are you ready?

This study guide aims to introduce the approaches, ideas, and perspectives of the social
sciences, focus is not on mere listing of each and every social philosopher or thinker but on the
context of how ideas about society were created and shaped in various situations and periods, as
well as the application of those broad ideas in concrete real-life situations. The whole objective is to
see society from the lens of Ideas, as dynamic and never fixed or permanent.
The following are the different parts/element of this study guide:
a. Activity 1 - Starter Activity
b. Activity 2 - Concept Learning
c. Activity 3 - Challenging the Mind
d. Activity 4 - Exploration Work
e. Activity 5 - Lesson Reflection
f. Take note: there are some added activities as you go through with your lessons.
The above-mentioned elements are comprised of different written activities that will let you learn
different concepts and ideas in the social sciences as well as the bigger society.
REMINDER: Your answers will be written on separate sheets of paper.

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help

you. If you are determined to learn, no one can
stop you.
- Anonymous

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LESSON 1: SOCIAL SCIENCES, NATURAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
• Define social sciences as the study of society.
• Distinguish Social, Natural Science and Humanities
• Recognize the importance and connections of the
What is society? social science, natural science, and humanities in
What comprises society? the society.
How is society different from nature? • Differentiate the nature and functions of social
What is the “science” and the “social” science disciplines with the natural sciences and
behind the study of society? humanities.
DAY 1
ACTIVITY 1: STARTER ACTIVITY
A. Complete the call out
by following the example below.

Example:
“Hello, my name is KAREN V. VALENZUELA.
The object that best represent me is a POCKET
WI-FI because I CAN GIVE AND SHARE THE
KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION THAT THE
USERS WANT TO KNOW.”

B. As your first exercise in how ideas in Social Science are conveyed and engaged, you may start on these
pieces of popular Philippine art, which are product of history and social situation.

1. Read this short comic strip about a

popular art Kenkoy by Tony
Velasquez in 1937.

Which do you think is the best

depiction of this artwork?

a. It depicts the life of Americans in

The Philippines.
b. It depicts the patterns of our usual
behavior.
c. Depiction of Philippine social life
During the American Colonial
regime.

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 d. Depiction of everyday decisions.

2. Match each picture to its correct title and author.

A. B.

1. Slice of Life by Larry Alcala

2. Pugad Baboy by Pol Medina Jr.

C. What are other forms of expressions and commentaries about society you know? Let us re-arrange the
jumbled letters to know them.
1. IGRFIFTIA ___________________ 4. TIPOLCLAI GFEFISEI ____________________
2. EACINM ___________________ 5. STVERADENTSEIM ____________________
3. DNAMSILVA ___________________

LET’S THINK!
What do you think they convey about our people, our society, and our everyday life? What
elements do you find in their respective artistic creations, which allowed their readers and followers to
relate to their themes and messages?
In our everyday life, routine, or regimen, seldom do we think about the “patterns” of our ususal
behavior: Why we do certain things the way we do, why we associate with a partidular group or people,
why we follow a specific belief oor conviction, why we are prohibited to do certain acts, why we speak
of a particular language, why we remember certain acts and forget others, etc. All these affact our
everyfay decisions. These are not just random actions but are shaped by the “structure” of our living
conditions: geographic area, social status, historical experience, economic forces, political institutions
ethnic grouping religious affiliation, power relations, etc. Social science sees these structures either from
the point of view of visible, concrete, and empirical interactions of people such as traditions and rituals
of rom the vantage point of the mind—how our ideas or images of the world themselves structure or
organize the world in which we live.
When we study our own society, we also examine ourselves and the community where we belong.
Social sciences do help in providing us the necessary perspective and methdological tools in order for us
to understand the realities around us that are more often than not, “ hidden” from our “normal”
understanding of the world around us. Identifying what comprises society is one of the easiest parts of
the social phenomena. What poses more challenge to the social ohenomena. What poses more challenge
to the social scientist is how to make sense of the connections, meanings, and interactions between various
forces and stakeholders within a society.

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 PRE-TEST: Write True if the statement is correct and False if not.
______ 1. Social science can be used to study and understand society.
______ 2. Socialization affects the overall cultural practices of a society, but it does not shape one’s self-image.
______ 3. Most social scientists believe heredity is the most important factor influencing human development.
______ 4. Social sciences perspective can be used to address issue or problem.
______ 5. Society refers to a group of people who share a culture and a territory.

ACTIVITY 2: CONCEPT LEARNING

A. Let’s define the word society. What comes to your mind when you heard the word “society” by writing
different words in the concept map.

SOCIETY

LET’S LEARN!
How is society different from nature? Try to compare and contrast the following contexts.

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CONCEPTS
NATURE
- conjures an image of random and unstructured forces that shape a given area.
- these forces and events, while unrestrained and ever dynamic, usually follow a general pattern, law, or process
ever since the world existed.
SOCIETY
- is organized, deliberately structured and formalized, and bound by rules drafted and implemented by the
people who themselves constitute society.

The Natural Sciences are empirical — that is, they are addressed by using our five senses of sight, sound,
touch, taste and smell. Their facts can be verified “empirically,” that is, with the five senses. Everybody can
verify them.

The Social Sciences are statistical — that is, they are addressed by surveys of large populations, as well as
by empirical evidence. For example, anthropology compares social groups in so-called primitive economic
conditions with social groups in more advanced economic conditions. It also includes Archaeology,
Psychology, Politics, Economics and History. Though most observations of Social Science can be
verified, some observations are matters of opinion — subject to a cultural bias of the scientist.

The Humanities are neither empirical nor statistical. This includes Ethics — the study of Right and Wrong
(Good and Evil). It includes Aesthetics — the study of the Beautiful. It includes Poetry, Rhetoric, Drama, the
Fine Arts and the Performing Arts. There is no objective way to verify the data. The only methods of
judgment that we enjoy in the Humanities are intuition, feeling, opinion, debate and criticism. There is
almost never a consensus about them.

THINGS IN COMMON
1. BOTH SCIENCES EMPLOY THE SCIENTIFIC MODEL IN ORDER TO GAIN INFORMATION.
2. BOTH SCIENCES USE EMPIRICAL AND MEASURED DATA EVIDENCE THAT CAN BE SEEN AND DISCERNED
BY THE SENSES.
3. BOTH SCIENCES, THEORIES CAN BE TESTED TO YIELD THEORETICAL STATEMENTS AND GENERAL
POSITIONS

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ACTIVITY 3: CHALLENGING THE MIND

From the concepts you learned. Accomplish this activity.

Social Science Humanities

Natural Science

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ACTIVITY 3.1: LET’S TALK!
Complete each dialogue box by answering the question below.

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 DAY 3
ACTIVITY 4: EXPLORATION WORK!
A. Watch a wedding ceremony on your television or ask your parents/guardian about
their wedding experience. You can also watch and visit this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_nca9tbmuo then answer the following questions.

1. Where did it take place?

2. Who were the key personalities in the wedding aside from the wedded couple?

3. What rules and procedures were followed?

4. Have you noticed some restrictions or taboos?

5. How did the occasion proceed?

B. Put a tick mark inside the circle if the statement illustrates the role of social science in the
society and cross out does not illustrate the role of social science.

6. Identify potential social problems create a hypothesis and try and formulate
answers to those problems.

7. Help in providing us the necessary perspective and methodological tools to understand

the realities.

8. Identifying what comprises society.

9. Making sense of the connections, meanings, and interactions between various forces
and stakeholders within society.

10. Investigate nature—how to learn more about it, discover its secrets, and identify
underlying universal laws.

ACTIVITY 4.1: LET’S IMAGINE!

Make a slogan showing the relation of Social Science in the community.
You can write your slogan in Filipino or English language.
Write it inside the board provided.
Your slogan will be graded according to the rubric below:

Quality of Content – 10
Organization – 5
Impact – 5
Creativity – 5
Total – 25 points

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Write and design your slogan here.

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 DAY 4

Complete the sentence:

The Social Science

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POST-TEST: Write True if the statement is correct and False if not.

______ 1. Social sciences perspective can be used to address issue or problem.
______ 2. Society refers to a group of people who share a culture and a territory.
______ 3. Most social scientists believe heredity is the most important factor influencing human development.
______ 4. Social science can be used to study and understand society.
______ 5. Socialization affects the overall cultural practices of a society, but it does not shape one’s self-image.

ACTIVITY 5: LESSON REFLECTION

I have learned that I understand that
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I realized that
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 ASSESSMENT

Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer on the blank.

______ 1. It is an organized, deliberately structured and formalized, and bound by rules

drafted and implemented by the people.
A. Nature B. society C. method D. Science
______2. It is the science of studying society.
A. Social Science B. Natural Science C. History D. Biology
______3. Which statement is WRONG about social sciences?
A. Social sciences are empirical. C. Social Science is younger that natural science.
B. Social science deals with objects. D. It includes Politics.
______4. A roughly made model of a person, made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a
protest or expression of anger.
A. vandalism B. political effigy C. comics D. graffiti
______5. Which is not a definition of science?
A. knowledge based on demonstrable and reproducible data
B. aims for measurable results through testing and analysis
C. based on fact
D. matters of opinion
______6. It is the study of how humans have expressed themselves through the arts
throughout the history.
A. Humanities B. Nature C. Society D. Social Science
______7. Which is NOT a branch of natural science?
A. Physical Science B. Anthropology C. Biology D. Earth Science
______8. Social science is the scientific study of human society and social ___________.
A. relationships B. gatherings C. life D. rallies
______9. He is the creator of Kenkoy comics.
A. Larry Alcala B. Pol Medina C. Tony Velasquez D. Tony Vergara
______10. Which word means that facts can be verified with the five senses.
A. statistical B. numerical C. comprehensive D. empirical
______11. This is the study of right and wrong.
A. Psychology B. Economics C. Ethics D. History
______12. In this discipline, there is no objective way to verify the data.
A. Humanities B. Natural Science C. Society D. Social Science
______13. The only methods of judgment that we enjoy in the Humanities are intuition,
feeling, opinion, __________ and criticism.
End
A. debate B. talking C. social action D. conversation
______14. Which is NOT a discipline of Social Science. of
A. Archaeology B. Psychology C. Politics D. Geology Week
______15. The social sciences are much _________ than the natural sciences.
A. older B. younger C. important D. noticeable

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REFERENCES:
Lesson 1
A. Book

Tatel, Calos Pena, Discipline and Ideas in the Social Sciences,REX Publishing, 2016

B. Electronic Materials

https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/
https://leasing.dmcihomes.com/blog/philippines-leading-cities-economic-expansion/
Paul Trejo, MA Humanities & Sociology, California State University, Dominguez Hills (1989)

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