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History As A Social Science and Its Relation To Other Field of Discipline

History is regarded as both a social science and a field of study on its own. As a social science, it examines how human activities and societies have changed over time. It seeks to understand events through empirical analysis of how they impacted and were shaped by political, economic, and social conditions. Key related social sciences include anthropology, economics, geography, linguistics, political science, psychology, and sociology. Each of these fields takes a systematic, evidence-based approach to studying aspects of human behavior, culture, and interactions within societies.

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History As A Social Science and Its Relation To Other Field of Discipline

History is regarded as both a social science and a field of study on its own. As a social science, it examines how human activities and societies have changed over time. It seeks to understand events through empirical analysis of how they impacted and were shaped by political, economic, and social conditions. Key related social sciences include anthropology, economics, geography, linguistics, political science, psychology, and sociology. Each of these fields takes a systematic, evidence-based approach to studying aspects of human behavior, culture, and interactions within societies.

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HISTORY AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE AND ITS RELATION TO OTHER FIELD OF

DISCIPLINE

The Social Sciences includes cultural (or social) anthropology, sociology, social
psychology, political science, and economics. Historiography is regarded by many as a
social science, and certain areas of historical study are almost indistinguishable from
work done in the social sciences.

1. Anthropology refers to the study of humans. As a social science discipline, it


examines all aspects of human life and culture. It seeks to understand human
origins and adaptation, and the diversity of cultures and worldviews.

2. Economics studies the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of


goods and services. The term may also refer to the financial aspects of
something, as in “the economics of managing a business.

It deals with the optimum allocation of scarce resources among its alternatives to
satisfy the unlimited human wants and needs of the people. Economists study
the ways individuals and groups ( such as governments, firms and nations)
allocate resources (including money, buildings, land, time, tools and know-how)
to satisfy needs and wants.

3. Geography is the science of place. It is the social science that studies the
distribution and arrangement of all elements of the earth’s surface.

Geography studies not only the surface of the earth but also the location and
distribution of its physical as well as cultural features, the patterns that they form,
and the interrelation of these things as they affect people. It deals especially with
the relationship between the environment of the earth’s surface and humans,
which involves both physical and cultural geographic features.

4. History is a study of the past, principally how it relates to humans. It describes or


narrates and analyze human activities in the past and change that these had
undergone. In its broadest sense, history is the totality of all past events.
However, a more realistic limitation of its area of inquiry would be “known past”.
History deals with events which “ have happened among mankind, including an
account of the rise and fall nations, as well as of other great changes which have
affected the political and social condition of the human race”.
5. Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure. It involves the
description of the language, the investigation of their origins, the inquiry of how
children acquire language, and how individuals learn languages other than their
own. Linguistics also deals with the relationship between or among languages
and with the manner languages change over time.

Linguistics seeks to explain how is a particular language’s knowledge system


structured, how it is acquired, how it is used in the assembly of understanding of
messages, and how it changes over time. The subject is also concerned with
some questions about the nature of language: “What properties do all human
languages have in common? How do languages differ, and to what extent are in
the differences systematic, i.e. can we find patterns in the differences? What is
the nature of the cognitive process that come into play when we produce and
understand language.”

6. Political Science is a social science discipline that studies systems of


government, and the analysis of political activity and behavior. It is systematic
study of politics.

By the application of empirical and generally scientific methods of analysis,


political science systematically studies governance. It is the systematic study of
and reflection upon politics. By ‘politics’ we mean that which typically defines the
processes by which people and institutions exercise and resist power. Political
processes are employed to form policies, influence individuals and institutions,
and organize societies.

7. Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It is “the


scientific study of behavior and the mind. “There are three elements in this
definition. First, it emphasizes that psychology “is a scientific enterprise that
obtains knowledge through systematic and objective methods of observation and
experimentation.” Second, its studies ‘behavior,’ which denotes “any action or
reaction that can be measured or observed- Such as the blink of an eye, an
increase in heart rate, or the unruly violence that often erupts in a mob. “ Third,
psychologists study the ‘mind’, which stands for “both conscious and
unconscious mental states. These states cannot actually be seen, only inferred
from observable behavior.”
The science of the mind and behavior, it involves the study of all aspects of
conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought. The term psychology
comes from two Greek words: ‘psyche,’ which means “breath, spirit, or soul,” and
logos, ‘the study of.’

8. Sociology is the scientific study of human social relations or group life. It


primarily deals with social interaction or the responses of persons to each other.
Social interaction is arguably the basic sociological concept as it is the
rudimentary component of all relationships and groups that compose human
society. Subjects of inquiry in sociology include the ways in which social
structures and institutions (such as class, family, community, and power) and
social problems ( such as crime and abuse) affect society.

9. Demography is the study interdisciplinary study of the size, growth, and


distribution of human populations. It examines statistics such as births, deaths,
income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structures of
human populations. Main areas of inquiry include human population dynamics
and human population change. It also involves the study of the structure of the
populations and how population change over time due to births, deaths,
migrations and aging.

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