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Discipline and Ideas in the Applied Social Science

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What is social science ?

A branch of science that deals with the institutions and functioning of human society and with the interpersonal relationships of individuals as members of society.

What is applied Social Science

What is applied Social Science

Applied social sciences are those social science disciplines, professions and occupations which seek to use basic social science research and theory to improve the daily life of communities, organizations and persons

Social works

Scientist

Scientist

A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.

Auguste Comte

He was the first to coin the term “social science” in the nineteenth century. He was a French philosopher who believed in the concept of positivism, or that the collected senses made up all worthwhile information. He was also a prominent figure during the French Revolution in which he called for a doctrine based on science.

Max Weber

This German was a sociologist and political economist who influenced many social scientists to come. He was one of the first to study methodological antipositivsm.

Max Weber

Karl Marx

An advocate for workers or communism and a social scientist. Born in Germany, After his work brought controversy, he sought refuge in Belgium where he theorized that “the nature of individuals depends on the material conditions determining their production.” He would later join the Communist League and write the manifesto with Friedrich Engels, and it is still a hot topic of dispute today.

Wiliam Du Bois

Wiliam Du Bois

He proved that social sciences aren’t just for white men. He was a stern advocate for civil rights. In his book “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade,” he even included an attack on civil rights leader Booker T. Washington for not doing more in the campaign for civil rights.

Leon Festinger & James Carlsmith

Leon Festinger & James Carlsmith

A dual of social scientists took on an individual’s central stories and why they think and behave the way they do. The experiment was conducted in 1959 at Stanford University and involved students doing a boring task and then being paid to promote it. Expectations, outcomes, and more marked this amazing moment in social science history.

Branches

Branches that are the sub-coordinates of a bigger idea like Social science. In totality there are 9 branches of Social Science.Specified to study certain topics.

Branch 1

Branch 1

• Social interactions which supply economic wants & needs

• Sci. study of the way in which humans make choices about production, consumption and wealth

• 2 greek words: Oikos (house) nomos (laws) -> house of rules

Branch 2

Branch 2

• Greek words, geo: earth; graphia: to write

• Study of the earth's landscapes, people, places, and environment

• Knowing about the world in which we live in

• Plays an important role in shaping the life and history of any society

Branch 3

Branch 3

• Study of mental behavior and mental processes

• Comes from Greek "psyche": soul; logos: study

• Seeks to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and investigating specific cases

Branch 4

Branch 4

• Study of relationships among people

• Study of society and the behavior of people in the society, including its origins, development, organization, networks, and institutions

MORE BRANCHES

Just like twitter's 140 charachters those branches mentioned isn't enough so here are more branches. so yay to 280 characters and 5 more branches.

Branch 5

• Study of populations, fundamentally of humans. It is dedicated to analyzing any type of dynamic population that changes over time or space.

o Size

o Composition

o Growth

Branch 6

• Anthropos – human (Greek)

• Logy – study

• basically, the study of human, from past to present, on how we came to be in the different aspects we are defined to

Branch 7

• study of past events that is in written documents

• Events unwritten are called prehistoric

Branch 8

• study of language

• language – means of human communication

• systems of voluntarily produced symbols by which members of a community interact

Branch 9

*politics – the art of government

- tactic for upholding collaboration among members of a community

studies how governance and politics are practiced at local, regional, national, and international levels.

It also studies political actions, thoughts, and behaviors

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